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I'm shopping for a vitamin supplement for my Werner's Three Horned Chameleon and I see ALOT of options... so I turn to you experts for the grand question... which is the best stack for my Cham?

Rep Cal's got the the Hertivite, & Calcium w/D3

Zoo Med has that super famous Reptivite and also the new human grade calcium carbonate variety

Sticky Tongue Farms has the Miner-All line.

JurassiPets also has some sort of calcium. Let's not forget about T-Rex Products and their line up.

I'm a water turtle guy so we never had to "dust" our pellets so I don't know much about this segment of the reptile market.

So hands down what is the best stack for this guy?

I've used RepCal, Minerall, and Herptivite for years, but IMHO which dust you use is less important that how you use it. Human grade probably won't make any difference. Dusts are easy to under or over dose. More is not necessarily better. When you dust, do it lightly. The most important way to get nutrients into your cham is to gutload your feeder insects well and rely on a calcium and a vitamin dust only as occasional gap-fillers. Check out the excellent feeder gutload recipe on www.adcham.com. I've also heard good things about cricketfood.com's gutload. Rely on this primarily.

If your cham is a fast-growing juvenile you can dust with calcium LIGHTLY every feeding. Once it gets to about 8 months cut back to once a week. Herp vitamins are not specifically formulated for chams, so its best to use them no more often than 4-6 weeks. Montane species tend to be sensitive to D3, but you do need a bit of it if your chams are kept indoors under fluorescents. I haven't kept Werner's so don't know if it is considered a montane species.

Thank you very much for the info. I just ordered some Miner-All Indoor formula which I plan to use very lightly.

I did some research on the native habitat of the Werner's and it turns out that they are from the high elevation mountains of Cameroon, Africa. They require a humidty of 90% with an air temperature of 72-79 degrees much like a jackson's cham.

I will check out that cricket gutload website. Thank you so much!

The only published research on the subject showed that Trex Chameleon dust works the best. It produces the most correct vitamin and mineral concentrations in the blood. Do not use human formulations.