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Hello people of Kingsnake.com...

I recently bought a multi-vitamin supplement for my six month old bearded dragon, and wanted to know what you thought of the brand. It was the only brand that our local pet store carried, so I didn't have much of a choice.

Anyway, it is "Fluker's" brand, and it says that it has beta carotene. It also contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements, and potent color enhancers. That's what it says on the front at least. It does contain Vitamin D-3, which I know is pretty useless for beardies, but as I said, I'd like your insight on it.

Also, what brand of multi-vitamin do you think is the best? Are there any vitamin ratios that I need to pay attention to?

Thanks for all you help,

herpdome420

I use Herptivite. It seems pretty good. Stay away from Dragon Dust products...they don't work well. As far as Fluker's, I have no idea.

Jamie

Im a big fan of rep-cal you can get it online the bean farm which sponsors this fourm carries it and I have bought lots from them. The rep-cal is the Herptivite as a multivitamin and i use the calcium with vit d3. Since your lizard uses that light system you are spending a lot of money on to create and transform D3 your lizard does need it. The question really is does the powder form help? Like the other person said I would try to stay away from stuff that says dragon dust. MOst of the time you will see they are filled with things like ash and fat and other things. This ash would be a filler and the fat would put weight on your dragon giving you a falsh sense that your vits are doing something good for your beardie.

I'm a Rep-Cal believer and use both their multivitamin and Calcium w/D3.

I personally don't like using anything produced by Fluker Farms. I don't the company at all.

As for Vitamin D3 being useless..its not, bearded dragons need vitamin D3 to properly metabolize calcium. They can do this naturally via exposure to UVB rays, which is why we need to provide UVB producing bulbs. However, its best to just use Calcium powder with D3 instead of having it in the multivitamin as well, though I do think most multivitamins do have some amount of D3 anyway so best to completely substitute a calcium dusting with the multivitamin, this way they are not getting extra d3 than they normally get with supplements.
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PHLdyPayne

My friend use bearded dragon calcium plus for his horned lizard and monitor lizard and they work really well. You can buy Calcium Plus on gecko resource forum which comes in bigger container, but really, all the Calcium Plus with different the animal pictures infront like bearded dragon, tree frog, and leopard gecko are exactly the same thing. If you buy it from that site, it will just say calcium plus for general use. I really like this product and so does my friend. We've raise healthy dragon, monitor and leopard geckos on this stuff with great success.