gothra
01-31-2007, 07:54 PM
I have leopard geckos. I did the fecals myself and when I noticed that they had parasites, I took some pics and showed them to my vet. There were 2 types of oocysts found in the fecal, one was a standard pinworm egg and the other one (as shown in the pics below) can't be identified. I was given panacur to treat them. I did another fecal last night (after 3 doses of panacur at 50mg/kg), but looks like the panacur isn't much help in eliminating this unknown type of parasite. Can someone please help me identify it? Or if you have a vet friend, can you please ask for me?
Description: Its about the same size as a pinworm egg. Its nucleus can split into 2 or 3 perfect circlular nucleus (I witnessed the nucleus making change last night). I checked Dr. Klingenberg's book and chart, they mostly resemble a pinworm egg; could it just be another type of unknown pinworm egg that requires a bit more time to eliminate?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_1nucleus.jpg
The above parasitic egg has ONE circular nucleus, then after about 5 minutes, it looked like its nucleus is about to spawn another circle (see below pic:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_s-nucleus.jpg
I also found others with 2 or 3 nucleus (mostly 2 nucleus):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_2nucleus.jpg
http://206.225.81.33/photopost/data/500/070109_hook.jpg
(this pic was taken on another day)
Any idea what they could be? I started treating them with panacur since 9th January, but still found quite a few of them last night, in fact, I found more of these than before. But the standard pinworm eggs seems to have been taken care of. Thanks.
(Sorry about the quality of the pics).
Description: Its about the same size as a pinworm egg. Its nucleus can split into 2 or 3 perfect circlular nucleus (I witnessed the nucleus making change last night). I checked Dr. Klingenberg's book and chart, they mostly resemble a pinworm egg; could it just be another type of unknown pinworm egg that requires a bit more time to eliminate?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_1nucleus.jpg
The above parasitic egg has ONE circular nucleus, then after about 5 minutes, it looked like its nucleus is about to spawn another circle (see below pic:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_s-nucleus.jpg
I also found others with 2 or 3 nucleus (mostly 2 nucleus):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/geckosmiles/070131_2nucleus.jpg
http://206.225.81.33/photopost/data/500/070109_hook.jpg
(this pic was taken on another day)
Any idea what they could be? I started treating them with panacur since 9th January, but still found quite a few of them last night, in fact, I found more of these than before. But the standard pinworm eggs seems to have been taken care of. Thanks.
(Sorry about the quality of the pics).