Mixing Supplements?

[Kaianuanu]

I was wondering if could you mix your vitamin and mineral supplements in amounts proportional to your dusting schedule. For instance, if your schedule is as follows:

Mon-Fri: Calcium w/o D3
Saturday: No supplement
Sunday: alternate between Calcium w/ D3 and Multivitamin


You would create a mixture of:

-10 parts Calcium w/o D3
-1 part Calcium w/ D3
-1 part Multivitamin

and use this mixture 6 days a week.

(I'm not sure if the schedule example above is correct but it succeeds at demonstrating the concept.)

So is this a sound concept,? To me it would seem that giving them a small amount of D3 6 days a week would be much healthier than 12 times this amount all at once, every two weeks. Sort of like a person deciding to take 7 "one a day's" every Monday.

BTW: I have a very precise scale that I use for reloading ammunition (my other expensive hobby) that measures to the tenth of a grain. One grain is one 7,000th of a pound, and converted to mass, one grain equals approximately 65 milligrams; therefore my scale measures in increments of about 6.5 milligrams. So I could definitely mix the supplements quite accurately.

 

[camimom]

Thats why some of us use repashy calcium plus, they already mix it.

 

[Kaianuanu]

Thats why some of us use repashy calcium plus, they already mix it.

I just saw that stuff. Has anybody raised juveniles on it and used it long term? If so, what was your schedule on it? 7 days a week, 6?

Still interested in the prospect of mixing though.

 

[sandrachameleon]

you can mix, yes, but dont mix up everything you have all at once. Minerals never expire, so your vitamin free mineral powder will last forever until you've used it all up. Vitamins however do not last. So if you mix your vitamins with your calcium powder, you have to dispose of all of it when the vitamin part expires.

Repashy is a good product, but I would not use it daily. Instead use it as your vitamin powder once a week and use a vitamin free and phosphorous free calcium powder the rest of the time (if a supplement is needed - knowing that some insects require no supplementation)

dont forget your chameleon is getting D3 daily if it needs it from your UVB lights (or the sun if outdoors) - the supplement is only meant to be supplementary. Also D3 from supplements can build up in the system - not water soluable and thus "flushed' out as quickly, hence you dont need to injest as often