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So if outdoor calcium does not have D3 and indoor has D3, what do you give to your Beardie if he is under a MVB? is to much D3 bad?

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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com

i think you are still safe to use mvb bulbs and use a good calcium with D3 supplement daily, even tho the mvb bulbs are good they are not near the uvb output of the sun. yes you can overdo it on D3 so if your dragon lives outside you would not want to give him the cal with D3 but under UVB bulbs the vit D3 is absolutly still necessary.

here is an excerpt from anapsid.org

"Oversupplementation of vitamins can be harmful. Vitamins A and D can cause serious problems, including liver, skin, and eye problems, and metabolic bone disease.
Excessive amounts of calcium, previously uncommon in iguanas, may become an increasing problem as owners, scared of MBD, overcompensate and give too much calcium. Hypercalcemia may also occur in conjunction with protein/hydration induced kidney failure, can cause bone defects, cardiac changes, hyperthyroidism, shock, renal hypertension and failure and death."

>>So if outdoor calcium does not have D3 and indoor has D3, what do you give to your Beardie if he is under a MVB? is to much D3 bad?
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>>www.beardiedragon.com
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