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Carlton
at Tue Sep 19 12:32:40 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carlton ]
Did you say you dusted with calcium? Calcium DOES NOT provide vitamins other than D3 (if it is a type of calcium powder with D3 added...check the label). You are simply adding yet more minerals, not vitamins. You need a separate vitamin dust in addition to the calcium dust. Don't mix the two...they degrade each other if stored together. Your gutload is the safest way to give vitamins and the dust is just a gap filler. Sounds as if your gutload needs to be better too. The occasional potato is just not enough. I use fortified cereal grain like Total, fresh dark leafy greens (not spinach), and chunks of fruit like orange. Bee pollen is great too. A good herp vitamin powder is Herptivite with beta carotene instead of preformed Vit. A. Vit A can be easily overdosed and some over the counter herp vitamins are much too high in A for chams. Vitamin dusting should be done about once a month. If you have not provided any vitamins by dusting there may be a slight deficiency starting. Go easy, change your gutload and get the vitamin dust but don't try to "make up for lost time" with it. You can cause other problems if you overdose. Hope this helps!
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RE: Eye Infection? - Carlton, Tue Sep 19 12:32:40 2006