Question about vitamins and calcium

[fkalb]

So im just about ready to buy my beardie, finishing up the viv tomorrow. I bought some zoo med Reptivite with D3. The description on the website has some feeding instructions but its pretty general so i wanted to see what you guys thought! http://www.zoomed.com/db/products/E...7czoxOiIwIjtzOjg6IlNlYXJjaF95IjtzOjE6IjAiO30= How often should i dust/feed this? Is it pretty good stuff? Also it has calcium in it so should i still provide a calcium supplement??
Thanks 8)

 

[Lennifer]

What kind of lighting are u going to provide? Thsi will make a diff on which kind of calcium u should be using. If u end up with a Murcury Vapor Bulb, then u will only need to dust with phosperous free calcium w NO vit D3.

~Sandy

 

[fkalb]

36" reptisun10 most likely

 

[Tigg]

With that bulb you will want to make sure you are using Calcium WITH D3 5x per week on 1 meal a day at a young age... Dust as if you were adding salt to your meal, don't cake the insects in calcium.

And dust with the multivitamin 2x per week same instructions as above.

 

[fkalb]

Sounds good! Thanks alot guys..

 

[kingbabybeardie]

I did a experament on powderd calcium(rep-cal phosphorous-free calcium with vit.d3 and calci-max multi mineral powder) both are fine powders.the calci-max seems to fully cover and stay on the crickets well the rep-cal barley covers them. I now you calci-max on my crickets and zilla food spray calcium supplement on my lettuce(romane).keira and jack seem to like it. I put some live meal worms in there lettuce and dead one and they eat both, I'm stating to feed jack by hand with dead meal worms and it works so far.

 

[diamc]

I did a experament on powderd calcium(rep-cal phosphorous-free calcium with vit.d3 and calci-max multi mineral powder) both are fine powders.the calci-max seems to fully cover and stay on the crickets well the rep-cal barley covers them. I now you calci-max on my crickets and zilla food spray calcium supplement on my lettuce(romane).keira and jack seem to like it. I put some live meal worms in there lettuce and dead one and they eat both, I'm stating to feed jack by hand with dead meal worms and it works so far.

I know we were discussing how much calcium to give on your other thread but I just discovered this post and had to add more info. Since you're using calci-max on the crickets, you shouldn't be putting the spray calcium on the greens too. They should only be getting calcium 5 days a wk and ONLY 1 feeding a day. The other 2 days a wk, you should be dusting their crickets with vitamins but again ONLY 1 feeding a day. Too much of either supplement is not good for them.

Romaine lettuce isn't a good green to feed daily and by itself. Please check out this site and make note of the best greens that are listed in green print. http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html The romaine is mostly water and can also make their poop very liquidy which isn't good either.

Mealworms have a hard chitin shell so it is a risk impaction especially for babies. Feeding DEAD mealworms is a very bad idea because if they are dead, they died for a reason so certainly not healthy to feed them. I suggest you read this caresheet and there are others also posted at the top of this forum. There is a lot of information that you should read up on. http://www.kakadudragons.com/caresheet/caresheet.php