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I've been looking online and I've found lots of different brands and types of Calcium supplements. What do you use? What is the best? Thanks!!!

Emily

Personally, I don't know if there's a "best". What I generally do is really read the labels and see how much of whatever is in each option, and then pick the one that's best for my beardie. Because some may get more of one vitamin than another in their regular diet, depending on what you feed them. I happen to use zoomed stuff now, because it's what the petstore carries. I used to use repti-cal, because that used to be what the petstore carried
Look at what food you feed your dragons and figure out the vitamin content of it, then go for the supplement that supplements their diet the best. That's my opinion, tho

>>I've been looking online and I've found lots of different brands and types of Calcium supplements. What do you use? What is the best? Thanks!!!
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>>Emily

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0.2 cats (Pandora & Journey)
0.1 bearded dragon (Kleio)
0.0.1 green tree frog (Squishy)
0.0.3 fishes (namoli, Asana, Adagio)

Really Rep-Cal is the best for Beardies. You should use their Ultra-fine Calcium with D3. The Rep-Cal calcium has no Vitamin A and no Phosphorus.(both are bad for beardies) The D# is necessary to metabolize the calcium. The Rep-Cal Herptivite Vitamin has Beta Carotene instead of Vitamin A so there is no Vitamin A toxidity issue.

There are many brands of Calcuim and Vitamins because they are marketed as for all reptiles. But, different reptiles have different needs. The Rep-Cal is really the best for Bearded Dragons.

The label says to mix the multi and calcium together. I don't do this. For babies I dust their live food every meal but one per week with just the calcium and once a week I dust with just the multi-vitamin. For adults I use the calcium 6 times a week and the multi-vitamin once a week.