The sick little bearded dragon we have still doesnt walk and all that.. but he hold his head up now and is in the sun outside all day... We force feed him peas injected with calcium powder mixed with gatoraid and then we sprinkle calcium on top and we make him eat 7 of them and then later in the day we sprinkle multi vitamins on top of them and force feed him like 7 more peas.. is this too much stuff for him? or is this good?
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Calcium....vitamins ahhh
SoCalSerenity
May 17, 2003 12:04 PM
Replies (2)
Christyj
May 17, 2003 11:00 PM
Did you ever find out what exactly is wrong with him?
Are you using calcium w/d3? Plus UVB, plus sunshine" If so, you might want to use just plain calcium since you are putting him in the sun each day. There is such a thing as d3 overdose.
IMO, daily vitamins are too much. By his size, he looks like he should get them 1-2x a week.
Since you are force feeding, you would get the protein he needs from chicken or turkey baby food, mix in the Gatorade and suppliments and give via a syringe.
grimdog
May 19, 2003 09:09 AM
If the dragon is getting calcium with d3 and it is a good brand of calcium and then sunlight then i don't think it will overdose on d3. If it has high enough levels of d3 it will not produce more. This is why you give beta carotine, which is made into vitamin a, and not vitamin a. Becasue when blood levels are corect the body stops production. The body usually doesn't poison itself. Over supplementation is a problem though, and dragons do need protein.
Derek
