for those who don't know cuttle bones are the skeleton of a special fish that are often sold in pet stores for birds. Cuttle bone is high in calcium (about 25%). I buy a few cuttle bones here and there to scrape up into dust and gutload crickets and superworms. I looked up the main minerals in cuttle bone and it goes as follows: calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, calcium phosphate and magnesium salts. Calcium carbonate is what typical reptile calcium powders are made of, and the other minerals can be found in some vitamin/mineral supplementsbut in smaller amounts I think. I was wondering if anyone thinks it would be a good idea to not only gutload with cuttlebone powder, but also to dust crickets and mealies with it instead of (or possibly a mixture with) the normal calcium carbonate powder. Most calcium carbonate powders have 35-40% calcium while the cuttle bones only have 25-30% so there is less calcium.
Any opinions or insights?
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~Andrea
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