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Are any of them good? Sjould you stick with fresh veggies for juveniles or supplement with some of the prepared foos?
If they are a good addition, which brand? Herp supplies has like 8!

Thanks
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NiCoLE

"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."

- Robert
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>>Are any of them good? Sjould you stick with fresh veggies for juveniles or supplement with some of the prepared foos?
>>If they are a good addition, which brand? Herp supplies has like 8!
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>>Thanks
>>Herp Photos
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>>Yours,
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>>NiCoLE
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>>"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."
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>>- Robert
>>Heinlein
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Yours,

NiCoLE

"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."

- Robert
Heinlein

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It's always best in my opinion to offer a variety of foods. Juvies need a lot of everything. Crix, veggies, greens, and pellets all should be offered to help him grow well in my opinion.

The Rep-Cal supplement and Herptivite are the most popular supplements to dust their food with. Minerall is another that is quite popular. I believe ZooMed pellets are the best and most widely used (that is what we use and recommend).

Make sure you follow directions for whichever supplement you get, but on average daily with rep-cal and weekly for herptivite is the norm.

goodluck
brandon
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Dragons by Nature

was the most widely used. Maybe i should use the other kind, too...for variety?

>>was the most widely used. Maybe i should use the other kind, too...for variety?
I used reptical for my herps exclusively...not I use a few different ones and rotate them.
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Yours,

NiCoLE

"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."

- Robert
Heinlein

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I believe Rep-Cal is still the most popular.. though I do know a lot of people that I have read say they use Minerall or however it is spelled and they like it.

We use Rep-Cal and Herptivite. They have been around a long time and I trust them more then I trust "newer" stuff.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

Thanks for all the info...there were so many dry foods and they all looked the same. I'll try the zoomed first.
I have been feeding alot of different greens(both green vegetables and green greens)...can you feed cauliflower or corn? Mine seems to love greenbeans and boston lettuce. I realize iceberg lettuce is a nono---are all lettuces bad?

Thanks!
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Yours,

NiCoLE

"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."

- Robert
Heinlein

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You're welcome

Yea, it is very confusing with all the choices out there.. a lot of them are pretty iffy in my opinion.. i tend to stick with the ones that have been around a while and have been proven to work. I let other people try out new stuff and test it on their collections first lol... i'm not that trusting.. i don't like switching things that have worked for us just to try something new. But I'm paranoid about it so

I am not sure about cauliflower, but I know corn is not good to feed. You can occasionally but it doesn't do much for them and I believe counteracts the calcium absorption.. not pos about that but i know it's not the best.

I don't know what boston lettuce is, but I know ice-berg is very bad. the reason that is very bad is it's 99% water and has basically zero nutritional value and gives reptiles the runs. They eat and eat it bc they are hungry and it never does anything for them health wise in a good way. Best to stay away from it definitley.

Things that are good for greens/leafy are collard greens, endive, escarole, red/green leaf lettuce is okay for variety, same with kale/spinach.. not a lot but vareity is the key. We use collards as the staple with hte other greens listed above as well as parsely for variety in small amounts. In addition sweet potatoe, bananas, mild fruit are given in small quantities occasionally for treats and again variety.

Hope that helps.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

This place seems to have alot of experienced people. I will not say which ones, but there are other forums that seem to attract perpetual newcomers, and you can never get a good answer as a newcomer.
Thanks and I appreciate theis forum already!
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Yours,

NiCoLE

"Trying to save someone from their own stupidity is like trying to teach a pig how to dance: it wastes your time, and annoys the pig."

- Robert
Heinlein

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You're welcome Yes, I agree with you there are a lot of great people in this forum. Don't be a stranger!

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

Zoo Med label says to feed as a treat a couple times a week. We will give Merlin a pellet dropped with his crickets (catch him off guard and he eats the moving pellet) Can it be given as a regular?

Lots of people feed their dragons only pellets or at least try to do that... others feed pellets with daily greens.. there is a lot of different opinion/views on that.

Again I believe variety is the key. We feed all dragons (hatchlings, juveis, sub-adults, and adults) crix, greens, veggies, pellets, and supers only for the sub-adult and adult dragons as treats.

We soak the pellets in warm water for a few minutes before offering them to our dragons in decent amounts and almost every dragon we have will eat them unless there are crix in the cage. They still prefer the "live" food before anything which I think is good bc it's in their instincts to hunt.. helps keep them active and more healthy I think. But they love all the foods.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature