Treatment for blackhead

[casportpony]

If you cannot get to a vet and want to use metronidazole you have two options.

• Buy metronidazole for fish or birds. Google the name of each to find the least expensive source. Note that the Meditrich is only 100 mg. Dose for a 12 pound bird is 250 mg for five days.

• Go to Petsmart or Petco and get some API General Cure. This has 250 mg metronidazole *and* 75 mg praziquantel. My concern with this is that I don't know how safe it is to give praziquantel 5 days in a row.

 

[Kessel23]

Alright, I will stop at petsmart an my way back.

 

[casportpony]

Alright, I will stop at petsmart an my way back.

You have syringes to give the Safeguard and Corid too?

 

[casportpony]

Oh, and you can get the Safeguard or Panacur at most feed stores. Tractor Supply sells the liquid for goats, so if you can, get that too.

 

[Kessel23]

Sorry I was gone for so long, my internet was messed up. I could not find the metronidazole at any of the stores I went too. I dewormed him and gave him corid and he perked up. His poop looks more normal now.

 

[Kiki]

Sorry I was gone for so long, my internet was messed up. I could not find the metronidazole at any of the stores I went too. I dewormed him and gave him corid and he perked up. His poop looks more normal now.

Good deal.
It was probably the beginnings of coccidiosis.

 

[Kiki]

Fyi.
Fish stores usually carry metronidazole.

 

[Kessel23]

I tried to stop at a pet store and they did not have it. I will probably just order it online so I have it if they do get blackhead.

 

[casportpony]

I tried to stop at a pet store and they did not have it. I will probably just order it online so I have it if they do get blackhead.

Petsmart has it but it would be better to get the pills that contain just metronidazole.
https://www.petsmart.com/fish/food-...ish-problem-solving-general-cure-5112949.html

Glad he is better!

 

[Farm_Girl_11]

If he were mine I would treat for worms, coccidiosis, blackhead, and E. coli. Good chance it's just coccidiosis, but I don't waste time if there is even a slight chance of it being blackhead.

Do you have Corid powder or liquid?

True, treating for all possiblities is way better.