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i dont know if my last post went through could not find it so if you seen it before then i am sorry. i wanted to know about how much and what to give to my geckos. i have heard differnt opinions, some say put a dish of calcium in there cage and some say dusting there food. i dust my ckrikets and meal worms. i just want to make sure that my geckos get all the vitamins they need any help would be appriciated.

I think the confusion may be that you're confusing calcium for a vitamin. Calcium is a mineral, not a vitamin.
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chickabowwow

should have put supplements

Vitamins should be used about once a week. Just dust the cricket/worms with them. Calcium should be used acouple or times a week for adults and more often for juvies, babies and breeding females. Dust the food with calcium that contains
Vit D3 and leave a dish of pure calcium in the tank at all times.

Emily
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2.4.11 leopard geckos (Nelson, Zander, Zoe, Baby, Houdini, Munch, & lots of babies)
1.1 ferrets (Oliver and Delilah)
1. budgie (Max)
0.0.1 Ring neck Parakeet (Kiwi)
1.1 German Shepards (Jake and Abigail)

The Spotted Gecko
**Updated 9-21-04**

thanks for the reply, what i do is keep mealworms in the tank all the time dusted with t-rex L. G. dust and feed them crikets every other day and dust those about twice a week with reptocal (it has d3 in it) so it is not really necessary to dust all the time, like some of the articles i have read (except during breeding season when they need more).

thanks again zach