spray on vitamins?

[sactownball]

i was just wondering if anyone has any knowledge or opinions about reptile vitamin spray?

[SPJ]

For a lizard or snake?

[sactownball]

for a bp

[Shaun J]

Ball Pythons don't need extra vitamins. Just feed it the rat/mouse and it's fine.

[JLC]

Totally unnecessary. Snakes get all the nutrition they need from the whole prey items they eat.

[SPJ]

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.

[SarahMB]

What about snakes that aren't eating, and/or are being tube fed?

[SatanicIntention]

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...

[SarahMB]

The probiotic is the Acidophilus, right? Or am I way off?

[SatanicIntention]

Yessum!