• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Treating with Amoxycillin?

ms_terese

ms_terese

Irrelevant User
Joined
Oct 27, 2002
Messages
1,942
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Location
Th' Ozarks
I need some advice.

A local pet store bought one of our adult childrens pythons. 2 months later, they called and said they couldn't get it to feed. He had only taken one meal after arriving there. They asked us to take a look, and sure enough, it seemed like a mild RI had set in. After taking it home and cranking some heat, he still didn't want food and didn't appear to be getting better, so we called on help from our local (rural) vet. Our vet, who isn't much into snakes, but normally can get us any sort of meds we might need, was asked if he could provide some Baytril.

Our vet gave us amoxycillin capsules (250 mgs. each) and said it will provide the same treatment. His instructions are one cap every 12 hours.

I don't know about that. Does anyone have any experience with dosing amoxy for an RI?
 
Not with a URI, but it should be effective. We have used it with a nasty bite infection on a 1000 gram iguana(wound closed and the knee was infected. That dose was 1/4 of a 250mg tablet twice a day
 
How did this turn out?

I guess the title says it all. Hope it worked out for you. Would be interested in knowing.

If it did not go well, and you dont feel like responding, I understand.

I am researching people's stories of reptiles that have been treated with antibiotics, and every story serves to increase the knowledge base.

Thanks, Ritchie
 
I went with my gut and drove 100 miles to a vet that had Baytril. The animal responded well and has now resumed eating. All's well that ends well! Thanks for asking! :wavey:
 
Your gut was right. Assuming the snake weighed around 2 pounds, the correct dosage would have been around 25mg/day NOT 500!!! (he was only off by 2000%!!!) Also, amoxy is ineffective in reptiles unless combined with another drug, so vets almost never prescribe it (in reptiles). If a yahoo like me can find this info on the net, I don't know what that vet's excuse is. Could have killed the snake.

Having said all that, I'm glad to hear the snake recovered. Ritchie :look:
 
Back
Top