i was just wondering if anyone has any knowledge or opinions about reptile vitamin spray?
08-12-2006, 08:55 PM
SPJ
Re: spray on vitamins?
For a lizard or snake?
08-12-2006, 08:59 PM
sactownball
Re: spray on vitamins?
for a bp
08-12-2006, 09:00 PM
Shaun J
Re: spray on vitamins?
Ball Pythons don't need extra vitamins. Just feed it the rat/mouse and it's fine.
08-12-2006, 09:00 PM
JLC
Re: spray on vitamins?
Totally unnecessary. Snakes get all the nutrition they need from the whole prey items they eat.
08-12-2006, 09:12 PM
SPJ
Re: spray on vitamins?
Just like the others said.Snakes do not need supplemental vitamins.
Lizards are the only animals you may need some extra vitamins for due to their diet. Things like dusting or gut loading crickets before feeding them to the leo or keeping a bowl of calcium in the enclosure for a leo.
08-12-2006, 10:54 PM
SarahMB
Re: spray on vitamins?
What about snakes that aren't eating, and/or are being tube fed?
08-12-2006, 11:08 PM
SatanicIntention
Re: spray on vitamins?
The general consensus would be no for healthy animals, but for a snake such as your little girl who needs to be tube fed, then maybe. If one, such as yourself, is feeding an animal-compatible formula such as the a/d I recommended to you, or a blenderized rodent slurry, I would think all you would need to supplement the diet would be a probiotic to help the gastrointestinal system recover each time the snake was tube fed, just to help combat the stress associated with the ordeal.
But anyway, for a healthy snake, no. Unless you were insisting your snake eat tofu...
08-12-2006, 11:19 PM
SarahMB
Re: spray on vitamins?
The probiotic is the Acidophilus, right? Or am I way off?