What is Vitamin A used for ?
and why is their such controversy over it?
i was never told about vitamin A

Im no moderator but post in the other thread rather than creating a new one! it keeps things organized and creates a good single reference source for others wondering the same thing.

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sorry

no man its all good! It just makes it easier to find the answer in one thread instead of two!

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The controversy is whether chams can convert Beta Carotene to Vit A.

Some people use preformed Vit A which can be toxic & the chams can overdose on.

I personally use Retinyl Palmitate.

Short & sweet eh..lol

But really, there is more to it than that.. You gotta read up on it.. There's threads on this forum that will give you a lot of information.

Some people don't use it... It's just like people who eat just organic & people that eat frozen food..

Hi Mika,

Whats Retinyl Palmitate...is that the brand your using? Im going to costo tomorrow to see if I can find some good Vitamin A capsules...what would you recommend?

Brian

Retinyl Palmitate is preformed Vit A. I personally use this:

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/e...ci_sku=EN-1034

I hard a hard time finding it. This is the only place with the lowest iu I found.

The Vit A Brad Ramsey is recommending is in the form of fish oil & this is what you will find in most stores.. I tried Rite Aid, CVS, etc..

I tried the fish oil Vit A in gelcaps. I placed a teensy drop on a hornworm. From my experience, observing them, they seemed to act weird. Like Jim Flaherty from the Chameleon Company said, it seemed like they wanna throw up (well not exactly his words).

I tried Retinyl palmitate & they did not exhibit the same behavior. They seemed to act normal.

Here is an interview with him with the chameleonnews.com & how he suggested using retinyl palmitate. I believe this interview was done around 2005-2006 because it states his son was due 2006 of october.

There's also other threads here wherein he talks about it. Using a q tip to administer it. Some people don't use it.

http://chameleonnews.com/?page=article&id=76

"Retinyl palmitate is a pre-formed version of vitamin A, and can thus be realistically over-dosed, unlike beta-carotene."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A_palmitate

I don't do it once a week.

I do mine once a month.

What I do now is put 1 cricket (3 weeks old) in the cup, press the dropper so there's nothing left in it.

Place the tip of the dropper & kinda like swipe it across the crickets back.

Then I put the cup in the enclosure & wait to make sure the cham eats the cricket.

From my experience, if you coat the cricket too much, it dies.

But do they NEED it? or is it something you can choose either to give or not.

ALSO what about calcium dosages with d3 i think it is...
how manytimes shoudl i give it ....
the pet shop told me everythime i feed my cham.. but after reading some threads it seems i need to not be diong that ..