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Anyone have any experience with the vitamin dust labeled as "Nekton-Rep". We have it on the shelves at my workplace for $14.99!(ouch. I have a bottle now, and am wondering if it would be okay to dust the wormies and crickets with it? I have been using it and a combination of Miner-all for the past few days. My cham is a 5 month old Veiled male, with a recent touch of MBD. He is doing very well. But is going through a little stage where he only likes to eat worms! Let me know if this stuff is alright,mediocre, or if it is really good, righty-o?

As the exact nutritional requirements for chams are not known it is very hard to say. Most herp vitamin products on the market are very high in preformed vit. A which can be toxic, and the best proportions of one vitamin to another is also not known. I know Nekton makes high quality products for other species, but if the formulation is not specifically targeted for chams (is the Nekton product targeted for vegetarian or carnivorous herps?) I would not use it. It is safer to gutload your feeder insects with nutritious "natural" foods (I mean veggies, fruits and grains in their unprocessed state) and let them metabolize and produce the forms of various vitamins etc. that the cham (being a predator) will get second hand. There is some good herp nutritional info and articles on www.herpnutrition.com you could read into this further. Also, the best cham-specific gutload and supplementation regime so far seems to be the one on www.adcham.com.