Cheap and Efficient Faecal Testing

[joeyboy]

anyone be answering me above query?

[Genseric]

I have a small colony myself Joey, and if one of your animals has something, they all will... what I did was randomly have all my animals checked. thankfully no problems, but a great piece of mind...


And to answer an above question.. if I was buying two animals, exactly the sae in every way, but one had the wee test cert, I would pay the extra (obviously it would need to be reasonably in date etc)

[joeyboy]

Originally Posted by LeviathanNI

I have a small colony myself Joey, and if one of your animals has something, they all will... what I did was randomly have all my animals checked. thankfully no problems, but a great piece of mind...

you say randomly have em all checked? If their all checked..it isn't random though...

do you mean you have say 4 stenos so you collect 4 poos and hope their from diff stenos?

[shrek]

Originally Posted by joeyboy

Just to get this straight, is the £10 test checking for only parasites where as the £27 or whatever it is test, checking for diseases as well?

I'm going to get a group of stenos next year, they might well be WC(pet shop). Now since they'd have been in the same confines one imagines that if one was sick(especially say crypto) they'll all come down with it.

When you have a communal set-up is it best to separate them all into containers until they poo? I didn't think they did it as often as we do and since I want a group of 4-6 it's going to be impossible to know whose poo is whose in the viv.

What do you think the best course of action is? Collect say 6 samples, hope their from different stenos or at least the majority, and test them? Then what test, do the £27 or so on all or would the £10 be adequate? Maybe they do deals on multiples.

best thing to do is to contact the lab but you do a 3 day pooled sample that is collect poo over 3 days and put in same pot so you get a range of poos from different times and different animals

[leopardgeckomad]

Pals is the best an i fully reccomend them these have saved me so much !!

[lorrainem]

dont wont to sound dumb but wht is this

[Mysterious_121]

Originally Posted by lorrainem

dont wont to sound dumb but wht is this

PALS is a lab that do feacal screenings. you just post them your animal poop and select from thier screening list. they can do everything from PM's to feacal flotations. if you look on the very first post on the very first page all the information is from this lab

http://www.palsvetlab.co.uk/