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It’s okay, if you make a claim you should be able to back it up. It’s exhausting doing the legwork sometimes but necessary. :)

I would like to offer that you to find papers to support your hypothesis rather than placing the burden of proof on me to prove your point for you. Vitamin D toxicosis has been examined in several species of reptiles, it doesn’t have to be a gutloading related study.

But that’s my point. The metabolism of reptiles is very different from that of mammals so you can’t just extrapolate. You need more data to support your theory. Otherwise it’s just conjecture ;) There have been studies that document vitamin D toxicosis on green iguanas.

At 17.8? I’ve seen it over 30 plenty of times. So it’s totally believable. Were you maybe looking at the CPK above it?

What makes you believe that?

My house has solar panels that make up for 96% of my energy use on average. In the winter or on cloudy days it’s less but on sunny days it’s over 100%. But in Colorado there is a rule that solar cannot be 100% or more on average because of energy company lobbying. I like them and it was easy to...

There are almost no studies using fresh produce that I can find unfortunately. As mentioned above, the goal for nutrition is at least 2:1 calcium to phosphorus and a lot of gutloading studied struggle to get to 1:1, which is why dusting is still recommended. And that is also why the produce...

If the tongue cannot stay in the mouth or if it starts looking dried out then it should be amputated. But if you were able to get it back in there is a chance she can recover. It may be permanently damaged and she may shoot crooked like my veiled did and need to eat out of a cup.

It does have different charts based on what category they fall in. So three-toed box turtles and panther chameleons both fall in the "Medium UV Species" category so their recommendation is the same, for example. So they evaluate a species and place it in a category based on the data available...

Yes I like that study very much. :) I think a lot of people don't offer enough cover in their cages to adequately allow panthers to regulate as much as they should because if they cannot avoid UVB exposure then they can't regulate like they should.

The Arcadia lighting guide puts them in medium range which is only 3-4 UVI, but I'm not sure if that's catered specifically for panther chameleons or if that's just the category on average. https://www.arcadiareptile.com/lighting/medium-uv-species/

Thanks!

What is the 7UVI limit based on?

That particular article refers to fatty acid absorption and that is something that has very few studies in reptiles in general and no available data in chameleons that I’m aware of so I have difficulty with knowing how to implement the information offered. There is still simply so much that we...

Please feel free to post it :)

Kinyongia is the queen of literature so she may have it! I haven’t run across that one yet. :)

A relationship between UVB and vitamin A? That’s interesting. I’d love to read more about that if you find it.

So with that data I evaluated some of my gutload options this morning as I was feeding my crickets. Based on 8% calcium content minimum and very small particle size (another factor investigated in several studies found to have a beneficial effect on gutload efficacy) the Mazuri Better Bug...

Most of the studies were specifically focused on calcium levels and increasing the Ca: P ratio from 0.15:1 (the normal cricket without gutloading) to 1:1, which is more nutritionally appropriate for insectivores. None of the studies were focused directly on chameleons and determined what was...

Okay....after browsing through hundreds of pages of research (the one posted above is a solid 161 pages!) I have some interesting info to share. It would appear that studies have demonstrated a combination of the two definitions of gutloading proposed is actually in effect. The time suggested...