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Has anyone tried going to CVS and buying calcium and grinding it to give to your geckos, I was wondering If you can do that

And what can a gecko not have, vitamen A or beta carotine? what vitimins (brand and name) does everyone buy?

Hi! Not sure about grinding up calcium, and think it might be more trouble than its worth really. I buy Jurasical for pure calcium, leave a dish in the cage full time and dust the crickets every other feeding. Once a week, I dust wtih ReptiCal since that has vitamin D in it. I also mix that in with the cricket food (Fluker's calcium cricket food, looks like ground up oatmeal). All together, both jars cost me about $13 bucks, and it will last for quite awhile. And at least this way you know it is ground up good enough and nothing will get caught in your leo's throat. Hope it helps!

Rep-Cal is the most popular brand of calcium/vitamin powders. Most calcium powders work well but I heard that herptivite is the only good multivitamin.

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so if i get the pink and the blue containers i'll be fine

For supplements, yes. You still need to gutload your crickets properly.

Dust the crickets every feeding with calcium powder for hatchling, juvenile, and breeding female geckos. For other adults dust every other feeding. And with all geckos, substitute the calcium with multivitamin once per week.

i might feed them mealworms but i assume gutloading suppliment is the same

The supplement does not stick well to mealworms, you can put them in a small dish with powder and the gecko will get some when it snatches the worms.

ah but if i wet the mealworms and then dust them it'll stick