Jessica,

Great post, and I respect your incetive to learn about what you supplement your reptile with. I have gone through this myself in the past. I questioned the products I have been using for years that worked. I ultimately came to the conclusion that you can make yourself dizzy with all the conficting info. I should have known better also because I have a minor in nutrition and went through this in college. The fact is (with humans), although calcium carbonate is less bioavailable than other forms of calcium, it works. Again with reptiles, calcium carbonate based products have been used for many years with great success. I don't see any reason to question it's efficacy, when at least 95% of the reptile breeding community uses a caco3 based product.
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