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10-12-2005, 01:08 AM
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Calcium and Vitamins

How do you go about it?

I do the calcium dish method, they dig right in wen they need to. Esp my female since she is laying.

Then I vitamin dust crickets every week or so.

This is currect right? =)

And what brands do you use?
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We dust the crix with calcium almost every feed, as well as having a dish in there permenantly, as for the multi vits we normally give these at least once a week but sometime twice, they can overdose on vits so would recomend once a week for the multi vits

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Herptivite (I think that's the spelling), calcium in the dish and occasional multivitamin dusting, same as you. All of our kiddies have been looking MUCH healthier since we started using that particular brand and method.
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I just got my first leo, and I dust her crickets almost every feeding with rep-cal, with calcium and d3 in it. Shes full grown, and should I have a calcium dish with the same calcium as I use to dust the crickets with, because Ive been told to use a calcium without d3 in the dish.

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Best to dust with D3 less frequently, Mike. Pure calcium is what they should have available in a dish, and you should only dust with D3 about once a month. Apparently they can develop a D3 buildup in their systems, and it can lead to problems. The pure calcium is much better as a regular thing.
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