I also seem to recall that someone did a "controlled" study some years back with alterna and found that Ca supplements helped improve fertility if given to males. The summary was that sperm were otherwise less motile if Ca was lacking or inadiquate.

I've often wondered what kind of mineral supliment wild animals, particularly those from arid areas, get from ingesting some surface grit along with their prey. Certainly more than from pine shaving dust!

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• Adding Calcium to the Diet - scaledverts, Mon May 19 20:54:15 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - colubridman, Mon May 19 21:25:19 2008
• ***Attention Colubridman*** - rodneyj, Tue May 20 21:59:40 2008
• RE: ***Attention Colubridman*** - colubridman, Tue May 20 22:38:53 2008
• RE: ***Attention Colubridman*** - rodneyj, Tue May 20 22:49:03 2008
• RE: ***Attention Colubridman*** - colubridman, Tue May 20 23:20:49 2008
• Ditto that!..haha!....n/p - DMong, Wed May 21 00:17:51 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - DMong, Mon May 19 22:00:20 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - cn013, Mon May 19 22:36:38 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - charleshanklin, Mon May 19 22:53:01 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - bobassetto, Tue May 20 06:50:10 2008
• RE: Adding Calcium to the Diet - Tony D, Tue May 20 10:10:34 2008
• What kind of CA do you use? - RG, Tue May 20 08:37:46 2008
• RE: What kind of CA do you use? - shannon brown, Tue May 20 12:14:05 2008
• RE: What kind of CA do you use? - charleshanklin, Tue May 20 13:25:29 2008
• Another consideration. - exposito, Tue May 20 14:24:04 2008
• I get mine from a local breeder... - RG, Tue May 20 14:51:58 2008
• RE: I get mine from a local breeder... - shannon brown, Tue May 20 17:38:08 2008