Folks...
While the Chameleon Journals website is for chams, there is a very good
Vet Topics section written by Dr. Ken Lopez (whom many of you know) that
is fairly general and covers the interactions of calcium/D3, Vitamin A,
gout, edema, and other topics. It is worth a look. Check it out at
http://www.chameleonjournals.com/vet/vetcare.cgi?index.
Steven Neil Groginsky wrote:
>
> Hi Magnus,
>
> I was curious to see what was out there so I did a quick Copernic search for
> "vitamin dose reptile" I think. There are some hits on Melissa's pages and
> some uninteresting stuff, but you might find something. I didn't really
> look at it that closely.
>
> You can see the results of the search at
> http://www.geocities.com/groginsky/page.html.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Magnus Forsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gecko] vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Neil Groginsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 2:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Gecko] vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals
> >
> >
> > Hi Steven and all,
> >
> > That does not go for all vitamins.Fat soluble vitamins as vitamin A and D3
> > are very dangerous
> > to overdose.Some vitamins gives the same symptoms if overdosed as if the
> > animal lack it.
> >
> > Magnus
> >
> > > I was told one time that if I got too much of a vitamin, it would just
> not
> > > be used and passed out of my system. I wonder if that applies to lower
> > > species.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "nathan hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:44 PM
> > > Subject: [Gecko] vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been using some sort of vitamin and mineral supplement for over a
> > > decade for my geckos, and I started pondering some things. We, gecko
> > > keepers and breeders, really don't have a clue as to the proper amount
> of
> > > supplements to give our geckos. Yes, they need calcium on a regular
> basis
> > > and producing females require more, but don't some species need more
> > calcium
> > > than others. Every species of gecko has a different growth rate, and I
> > > assume that most people use the same general method of dosing for all of
> > > their animals. When a gecko reaches adult size, do we have any idea
> how
> > > much vitamins and minerals to give these geckos? It seems to me that
> > > hypervitaminosis can be more harmful to a gecko than hypovitaminosis.
> > I've
> > > had amazing success with many of the species I've worked with, but I
> think
> > > that so many dosages and amounts are simply not known. Unfortunately, I
> > > don't have that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, and I'm
> > always
> > > searching for the "proper" way.
> > >
> > > Nathan Hall
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Doug Johnston
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