Question on dusting crickets.

[mistykal1980]

I have a veiled chameleon and I would like to know if I can forgo dusting crickets if the food I feed them and the quencher I have for them both have calcium in them.

 

[kinyonga]

I wouldn't stop dusting the insects...but there are people on here who are looking at that. I wouldn't stop the one with D3 in or the vitamin powder either.

 

[mistykal1980]

Ok... thank you

 

[MissSkittles]

I have a veiled chameleon and I would like to know if I can forgo dusting crickets if the food I feed them and the quencher I have for them both have calcium in them.

No, sorry but you can’t. There are two standard methods of supplementation.
1) Repashy brand calcium with LoD used at every feeding and no other supplementation needed.
2) Phosphorus free calcium without D at every feeding except for once every other week use phosphorus free calcium with D3 and once every other week (alternating) use a multivitamin.
Fluker’s cricket quencher is only for hydration and the orange cubes and the like are not really any good. These may help.

 

[mistykal1980]

I wouldn't stop dusting the insects...but there are people on here who are looking at that.

I dont want to give my daughters cham too much because I know that giving them too much is just as detrimental to them as not giving them calcium at all.

 

[mistykal1980]

No, sorry but you can’t. There are two standard methods of supplementation.
1) Repashy brand calcium with LoD used at every feeding and no other supplementation needed.
2) Phosphorus free calcium without D at every feeding except for once every other week use phosphorus free calcium with D3 and once every other week (alternating) use a multivitamin.
Fluker’s cricket quencher is only for hydration and the orange cubes and the like are not really any good. These may help. View attachment 257142View attachment 257143

I have not stopped dusting. I just want go end up giving him too much.

 

[kinyonga]

This might help...
http://www.chameleonnews.com/07FebWheelock.html

 

[MissSkittles]

I have not stopped dusting. I just want go end up giving him too much.

I use the second supplementation schedule. I dust lightly...the feeders shouldn’t look like little snowmen. I only dust 2 out of 3 feeders. Is working well for me. It’s the D3 that you don’t want to overload on, which is why it’s given only twice/month.

 

[mistykal1980]

I use the second supplementation schedule. I dust lightly...the feeders shouldn’t look like little snowmen. I only dust 2 out of 3 feeders. Is working well for me. It’s the D3 that you don’t want to overload on, which is why it’s given only twice/month.

Ok.. thank you

 

[MissSkittles]

@kinyonga is a much better one to listen to than I and really knows all the fine points of chameleons and their husbandry. We just happened to respond at the same time.

 

[kinyonga]

@MissSkittles thanks for your vote of confidence but I still have a LOT to learn about so many things to do with chameleons. You know a lot too!

Here's one more article that might help....
http://chameleonnews.com/03JanDonoghue.html

@mistykal1980 said..."I have not stopped dusting. I just want go end up giving him too much"...one of the studies done by, a vet said that its not easy to overdo the calcium...but I can't find the article right now.