I the wild many animals get salts and minerals from soil and rock sources. In the wild animals seek out salty and limestone soil and rocks. The crushed coral and crushed shells that my diamondbacks eat is almost pure calcium carbonate, a great source of calcium, which is partly why I put it in there, it also helps buffer the water for the slightly alkaline salty water (brackish) conditions that they live in.
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Jeff Benfer



1.0 pastel Python regius

1.1 mojave Python regius

0.1 normal Python regius

1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis

2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina

4.1 Kinosternon baurii

1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin

2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis

1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis

2.2 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix

0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix

1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus

0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus

0.1 Okeetee Pantherophis guttatus

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