If you are speaking of the book "Rat Snakes, A Hobbyist's Guide to Elaphe and Kin" by Walls and Staszko, they do not recommend calcium supplements, but they do recommend vitamin D3 to aid with calcium absorption. They suggest that you inject it into the prey item just before feeding it to your snake. That is easy to do if you are feeding your snakes F/T.



I don't give my snakes full spectrum light or vitamins, and they are all healthy and doing just fine.



By the way, it is a very good book with a lot of useful information. Some of it is a little dated, (the U.S. edition was published in 1994) but it is still worth having.

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