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Ok after doing some More reasearchi cannnot seem to find the info i need so i will ask you, How often should i dust with multi-vitamin? and how often shoudli dust with calcium powder, every site i goto i find different info, different frequencies of dusting. and it's perturbing. Im hopin i havent givin my cham and overdose. DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW?

You should use the calcium powder at every meal and you use multi-vitamin three times a week.
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Ethan

too much, i hope i havent hurt my lil cham, tnx

THANK YOU for asking this...I read some things lately that totally confused me, then I asked this way below...no one replied. See my post way down for WHY exactly I was confused. It's under "dusting...ok now I'm confused" or something like that.

Kristen
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0.2 pygmy leaf

Hi-

I am going to tell you the same thing I told dumbkid above. But let me add to this first. A vitamin dust such as the rep-cal herptivite is strong, and will cause edema among other things if over used. I don't recommend using it more then 2 times in a month. Also I don't mean to pick on anyone but Ethan's way of dusting will certainly cause long term health problems if the chameleon doesn't die first!

You will not find a set in stone way of supplementing. Everyone has there own opinion and way of doing it. I personally don't use any one brand, but a mix, and no I will not tell you my supplement schedule because what I feed and who I feed and how I house and light my chameleons is going to be different then what you do. Are you confused yet? Here is what I will suggest. Use a good quality gutload and do regular calcium and D3 (D3 if needed) dustings as needed. I would recommend dusting young growing chameleons food no more then 3 times per week with any dust, and slow the calcium down as growth slows at one year. You will hear over and over to much is just as bad as to little. Sorry but this is the best I can do for you. Hope this helps!
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John @ Chameleon Paradise
1.1 Ambilobe Panthers
1.1 Nosy Be Panthers
1.1 Sambava Panthers
1.2 Rhampholeon uluguruensis

so basically,as long as i am gutloading the crix with calcium i dont need to use the powder that often.im gonna try a new food today for the crix, cuz tehy dont seem to like the meal food very much, those flukers cubes should do it. and the vitamin dust i'll back off to once a week till he/she(Not sure of sex) gets more mature.

here's a really good gutload, i used to use that flukers crap, but not after i found this stuff.
http://cricketfood.com