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actually not the actual snake, but the secret to it's abnormal red coloration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

secrets away Frank cuz I payed $25 for his little secret and you gonna expose it!!!! What a punklol I bet he won't tell you what he gave Daisy though
Bob

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Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
21.29 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Nekton-Rep Color is a reptile vitamin that contains carotenes and canthxanthenes. Nekton is a German company that was producing reptile vitamins long before any of the US companies came out with their mostly inferior products. I used to occasionally add a little Nekton-Rep Color in my water bowls. It left a red stain in the bowls so it must have had plenty of red pigment in it;o) I really do not know if it was effective and quit using it about 10 years ago.
Jeff

>>actually not the actual snake, but the secret to it's abnormal red coloration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>Frank Roberts
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I actual used to use that stuff, that was way before repcal, I also used to feed my feeder crickets fish food for color enhancing fish to see if my fire skinks would get "redder".

The nekon had a little book attached to the bottle, ok not a book, but I assume since you are familiar with the product you know what I mean.

Didn't notice any difference in the skinks after 6 months and discontinued because I lost intertest from not getting any results lol

I knew you where a nerd, that's nerd activity Jeff lol

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Frank Roberts
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think so lol
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Frank Roberts
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Ok the Fish Food is Tetra Color Tropical Flakes : Natural Color enhancer with:

Ingredients

Fish meal, ground brown rice, torula dried yeast, dried potato products, feeding oat meal, shrimp meal, wheat gluten, dehulled soybean meal, soybean oil, fish oil, algae meal, sorbitol, lecithin, l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate(vitamin c), artifical colors including yellow 5 and blue 2, ethoxyquin as a preservative.

So what's so funny, well, I was breeding african fire skinks in hummmm let me see.... 2001. I couldn't remember what the food was called. So, I guess I had to surf the net to find out the name of the product.

Nope as luck ( laziness ) would have it, the long, and I mean long empty container was on one of the shelves in my snake room, along with large empty Tetramin Floating Food Sticks Cans and many, many other do-dads, including a product called, "Body Builder" ( best next thing supposedly available for Horses to put on lean muscle mass and added weight.) I used to inject certain amounts into feeder rodents and feed one of two snakes, the other snake's food did not get injected, prey animal's where similar in size and snakes where subjected to the exact same temps in their environments. Oddly the snake ( one given the supplementation ) digested it's food twice as fast ( crapped ), had more "intense coloration and better weight gain", and "overall growth" was considerably more so than the "non-supplemented" snake.

Now, with the low number of snakes utilized, it is not scientifically sound to make any claims that this product had or can have such a profound effect on any snake' metabolic rate, coloration, and or overall growth rate. But I saw, what I saw. I discontinued use after 1 year because the supplement is kind of expensive.

What's so funny you ask?

Well I did "google' the product in order to copy/paste the ingredients into this thread because I am too lazy to write something I know I can copy/paste.

Funny, perhaps a little.

But the fact, I used the all the product up in 2001, the damn empty container is on a shelf with many other empty containers of products I have used in the past 6 years, if I cleaned the room, once a week, that would be close to around 312 times, not once, have I thrown that crap out, and I still will keep it. Just in case I could use the container for "something" useful, this is not exactly what I had in mind, but it may be the only use it ever sees. So not only am I a "nerd/geek" when it comes to science/Herps, I apparently suffer from some type of "pack rat" disorder when it comes to these containers. I also see a HUGE jar of cricket additive from Fluker Farms its yellow and has calcium and looks like some kind gel-like substance, I do not order crickets in large quantities since I got out of lizards & arrow poison frogs ( recovering addict ). But, you never know when one might need something like that (laughs)!!!

( cut & pasted these as well )
Body Builder

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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

>>I actual used to use that stuff, that was way before repcal, I also used to feed my feeder crickets fish food for color enhancing fish to see if my fire skinks would get "redder".
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>>The nekon had a little book attached to the bottle, ok not a book, but I assume since you are familiar with the product you know what I mean.
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>>Didn't notice any difference in the skinks after 6 months and discontinued because I lost intertest from not getting any results lol
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>>I knew you where a nerd, that's nerd activity Jeff lol
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>>Thanks,
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>>Frank Roberts
>>Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research
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