About using Reptaid with baby or young reptiles:
We have not had to use reptaid with very young chameleons. We do keep a very clean facility, as you can see from pictures on our website. And I think that having very healthy adult chameleons results in having very viable heathy eggs and in turn very healthy little babies. Almost every one of the eggs which hatch actually lives to grow up into an adult. So we really have not had the need to use Reptaid on any very young chameleons.
Another factor which contributes to having healthy babies is the food source. We do not use fruit flies. For one thing, I cannot stand them. I know they are supposed to be flightless but nobody told the fruitflies that. And I don't think they provide enough nutrition for baby reptiles. Another breeder friend would tell us about losing a lot of the babies in a clutch for some reason and they were feeding fruit flies. So, we breed our own crickets and feed countless hundreds a day to the baby chameleons. We gutload the crickets very well and the chams are getting a good meal in every bite. PLUS because we are breeding our own tiny crickets, we know that the crickets do not have pinworms or other parasites in them which is often the case when you buy crickets.
So all this adds up to not having to treat young chameleons with Reptaid.
I do know that there have been people who treated young leopard geckos with Reptaid sucessfully. You can just put a tiny drop of Reptaid on the tip of the nose of the gecko and he will lick it off. And for crested geckos which are eating CGD you can just mix the Reptaid into the diet mix for them.
As for the strength of the Pau d'arco in the Reptaid being too strong for a baby, I don't think so. The few people who have used it on a baby reptile, of whatever species, have not reported any real problem or negative effect. Amber tells me that the proportion of Pau D'arco is very small although they won't tell me what the percentage of each herb is in the mixture. Proprietary informtion.
I can say that I have talked to Amber Tech about formulating a third Reptaid.
We already have Reptaid XL for animals 250g and heavier.
We have regular Reptaid for animals less then 250 g.
And we want to have Reptaid SM for smaller animals like less then 50g. And this would be for small geckos, baby dragons, baby anything as the need arises. When it is available we will announce it on the forum.
