Parsonii Supplements???

[savage13]

Hello eveyone just wanted to know what type of calcium and vitamin supplement for indoors or outdoors using for your Parsons Chameleon at this time? I'm just curious i myself 20 years ago was using Miner-all with D3 & Herpitivite Just want to know what changed over the years as far as supplementing these wonderful creature's..

Thank you for your reply..
Felix...

 

[OldChamKeeper]

Calcium mostly. Every other week I use calcium with medium D3 from Repashy. That means I only give may two food items that week with it. Then twice a month I use the Repashy multivitamin. They seem to need B1 more than other species so I give a little drop of a B1 paste on a roach twice a month.

 

[savage13]

Thank you for the reply.. Now are they kept indoors or outdoors? Now I know from previous experience that indoor you need to supplement more (now I'm talking about 20 years ago) showing my age ..Lol...then outdoors!??

 

[OldChamKeeper]

calcium no matter where you keep them. Same with the multi vitamin. I would drop the calcium with D3 if they are kept outdoors

 

[Twitchet]

Hi there, I'm just about to get a cb pair so I was very interested in this info here, Old chamkeeper- what I found most interesting was the mention of vit b1- I've never seen reptile supplements for just that so can you gutload roaches on oats, brown rice etc which appear to be high in thiamine?
Many thanks for any extra info - sorry to jump in

 

[Lathis]

I've always wondered about the B-vitamins, too. I know some are produced by the body, while others need an external source. I try to rotate items into the gut loading routine to incorporate B-vitamin sources like butternut squash, plus I use Bug Burger which has B-vitamins in the mix.

 

[vinzou]

hello, can you give me a link or product brand for vitamin B. regarding the Bug Burger is to feed the insects is vitamins. thank you in advance

 

[Andee]

Any insect chow with brewer's yeast in it has plenty of vitamin B. The one I make has Brewer's Yeast and Barley in it so it has plenty of vitamin B. I am pretty sure the other homemade chows on this website have the same too.