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jsp228
at Fri Oct 3 19:04:38 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jsp228 ]
Thanks for all the responses. If I feed my dragon 2-3 times a day and give him as much as he eats. His tummy gets huge.. he drags it around just to walk. He doesn't look happy at the end of the day and he poops 2,3, sometimes even 4 times a day the next day. That doesn't seem healthy lol. I come from a long background of rearing chameleons and its a general consensus that obesity in reptiles is an issue, moreover growing them extremely fast can lead to more susceptibility to MBD. This may be a chameleon thing, but I dont see why it wouldn't pretain to BD's. Also feeding too many supplements is a big caution in chameleon rearing and many beginners actually OD their chameleons on vitamins and they are a lot of times detrimental. Using my biological sciences degree here, hehe, all vitamins can be toxic in high dosage especially those that are fat soluble IE Vitamin D etc. So too much supplements I worry is going to be detrimental. Of course BD's are distinct from chameleons which is why I will take your advice and dust everyday with Dragon Dust but the notion that its you can't OD on dusting because all the ingredients are natural is false.
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