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How often do I do this. I have read alot of different opinions.

>>How often do I do this. I have read alot of different opinions.

Hi Dawson,

Dusting the feeder insects depends on several points: the cham species; the cham age; male or female; general diet; whether or not the cham gets sunshine. We do not recommend the "shot gun" approach when it comes to supplements.

Could you provide the info as related to your cham(s)..?

Morgana - Reptayls, Ltd.

Hi, It will be a male Baby vield. The staple diet would be crickets. I would bring him outside when it was nice. Thanks

>>Hi, It will be a male Baby vield. The staple diet would be crickets. I would bring him outside when it was nice. Thanks

Baby veiled should have a fair amount of supplement dusting while growng to insure good bones and body development. We dust our veiled young'ns 3 times a week with calcium w/D3 and with mineral/vitamin dust twice per week. You can mix the dusts - no problem. This continues until they are about 4 months old, then I cut the dusting back to 3 calciums and one vitamin. Once they get to be 6 months, it is twice a week with calcium and once with vitamin for the males. The females continue to get extra calcium until they are 9 months. When adult, you can safely cut the males back to every other week with both dusts. The females need to have extra calcium because they put so much into their eggs, so they get calcium every week, and minerals every other week.

Hope this makes sense...
Morgana

Note: if you dust too heavily on the crickets, they will die in a matter of hours (they breathe through their pores). so don't over-coat the crickets. We put the dust into a deli cup, drop the crikets into the dust, swirl gently and let them walk out of it into the feed cups. You can also put a small amount of calcium supplement into the feed bowl - then the cham will get some with each morsel. Putting grated carrot into the feed cups is an opportunity to introduce the cham to healthy veggies too.

Awesome thanks for the information. That was more than I exspected. And don't worry I understand it

>>Awesome thanks for the information. That was more than I expected. And don't worry I understand it

Great...... and you are welcome!
Good luck with your guy.

Morgana - Reptayls, Ltd.