Is this stuff any good?

[Jen]

JurassiCal Calcium Supplement for Reptiles and Amphibians - 2.6 oz.
2.6 oz. Phosphorus free and vitamin D3 free source of calcium for reptiles and amphibians. Easy to use; simply dust on food.
Can I use it for my Igs and Leos?

[prism_wolf]

Absolutely! Dust away...:-)

[greenfixed]

I use it for my babies, granted they hate it and it has to be well hidden in favorite foods, but it has never given me any problems. It's the only thing my vet did not thrrow away!!

[Jen]

Great! If I can cut costs and still get a good product, I try to do it.

[Merlin]

greenfixed said:

I use it for my babies, granted they hate it and it has to be well hidden in favorite foods,

Used properly calcium powder should not be noticeable to the iguana. If its that noticeable you may be using too much.

What I tell people is to use it lightly like you would salt your own food, If you end up with a plate of veggies visably covered in white powder you are seriously overdoing it.

And too much calcium is dangerous.

[prism_wolf]

Absolutely! You should not be able to see the calcium...just a very small pinch is all you should be using.

[greenfixed]

Oh, you can't see it, and I only use a tiny pinch, and only twice a week but it still has to be hidden in the middle of the pile, or he won't touch it. Tiki is a seriously picky eater, considering I give him a wide variety of foods. Some foods he will eat for months, then stop, and start eating others. Collards and dandelions he always eats, mustard sometimes, butternut and yellow in winter, only yellow and zucchini in summer. Parsnips only in summer. never any peppers, and sometimes all he'll pick out is the lima beans and sweet peas. Then again he'll go through fases where he loves raw sugar snap peas chopped up. He's crazy, and spoiled, and right now all he eats is lima beans and collards, if that. I know lima beans aren't that great for him, so they're used sparingly! He's getting fluids daily now, and the humidifier has turned my room into a greenhouse, (Oh yeah, he's free roaming now) but he's in full swing breeding season, and can get dehydrated cause he doesn't think to drink his water. Luckily, he's not the terror he was last year!!

[deanie]

You know this is what I use too. Iggy will not touch her food at all if she can smell that stuff on it for the simple fact that she never had it at all for 6 years. Doesn't care for the smell, so the only way I can give her the supplements that she needs, is to put them in the middle of a small raspberry, making sure not to leave any of the substance on the outside. She gobbles up the whole raspberry and all is taken care of in my bite.

Now when I got UNI, I started with the same supplements, Jurasical, and human vitamins crushed, and he kind of worked around the smell of them too. But I got to the point of where, when I made the food, it was all placed right on the middle of the board, Greens, veggies [no fruits] dusted and then totaly mixed up by hand to try and make it disappear and then put into his dish and put the fruit on top, and he just devours it now. So even if he doesn't eat all of it, I still know that he is getting some on a daily basis.

As for your guy being a picky eater, I think that he is just telling you what all of them want their slaves {you} to know, variety, variety, and variety, and by him being picky, that is exactly what he is doing, eating his variety!!

How funny!!!

[prism_wolf]

Thank goodness Zair is not a prejudiced eater. He eats everything...even with the supplements...;-)

[greenfixed]

Thanks for the advice Deanie...I do my best, and I am his slave, though he is much easier than when he was a baby.

I don't think I left my house except for work that first 6 months!

Prism, all the igs at the shelter gobble down there food, no matter what we give them, so I'm thinking that's a norm for igs, rather than my exception!! I'm sure when Tiki is older, he may stop being a brat.! ;D