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I am impress! You have more then 4000 posts on your favourite forum, I tried to read 100 or so then realised I cant understand a word.



However no dough about your contribution to this hobby, bravo!



As you already know I am interested in your experience, even though we have different views on herpetoculture, I feel I can learn a lot from you, and vice versa.



I have a down to earth and simple approach to herpetoculture based on animal behaviour and experimentation.



You on the other hand seem to rely on science and literature, you have a very commercialised husbandry practise, you believe in the virtues of the latest products and rely on science to cure diseases of husbandry.



This is all fine, but when you say things like your present post, I don’t quit understand what brings you to this conclusion?



I have no problems with the use of oxitocine, iv use it 100s of times in the past, however I know these hormones injections are now obsolete, at least with my animals as I can easily make my lizards produce them.



But it’s the calcium injections I don’t really understand the need, at this pint in time the eggs are already shelled, they no more have a need for calcium.



Injecting calcium now can only contribute to a multitude of potential organ damage, as the organism will try to evacuate what the body doesn’t need.



Most will end up in faeces, this especially if calcium is injected but when its injected it must enter the blood stream, cardiovascular and renal system, clogging and leading to poor blood circulation.



This is why I don’t really understand this practise, and even in cases before the eggs are shelled, calcium injections is pretty useless as the metabolism can only handle small daily doses, for such injections to be effectively processed, they would need to be broken down in 100 doses and injected every day until the female nest.



This is why simply dusting insects already supplies more then the daily needed calcium dose.



Pleas tell me if I am missing something here?



Rgds

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