Reptomin?

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Anyone still know where to get Reptomin liquid vitamin? I used to get this stuff a few years ago and if I had a snake that was I'll in some way or was trying to heal for whatever reason I would inject a little bit under the skin of it's feeder but I haven't seen it in a while and would like to get ahold of some.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Maybe it was called Reptivite or something. It came in a small glass bottle with an eye dropper top.

[rdoyle]

i found this I hope this help I could not find liquid, But i do for hunmans that the liquid goes bad faster then the powerd stuff.
http://www.healthypets.com/zoomedrep2oz.html
http://www.healthypets.com/zoomedrepd2oz.html

[Kaorte]

Why do you need it? It is completely useless for snakes. They get all the nutrients they need from their meals. I wouldn't waste your money..

[rdoyle]

Why do you need it? It is completely useless for snakes. They get all the nutrients they need from their meals. I wouldn't waste your money..

I have a question? Say if your snake has not eating in months and started eating again giving him some of this would hurt him? to help he get back what he lost?

[Kaorte]

I have a question? Say if your snake has not eating in months and started eating again giving him some of this would hurt him? to help he get back what he lost?

Ball pythons are very hardy animals. They can go MONTHS AND MONTHS up to a year without eating with no ill effects. Even in the wild these snakes may go off feed for a while. No one is there shoving vitamins down their throat and they do just fine.

Would it hurt them to give them vitamins? no, but will it really "give him back what he lost?" no, it won't.

Snakes are efficient animals. They eat their prey whole and gain all the nutrients they need from it. Supplements are not necessary. Now for lizards and amphibians, supplements are sometimes required because the diet we provide for them doesn't give them all the nutrients they need.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Well using that mentality humans get all the nutrients they need from food also but when a human athlete wants to perform better or grow muscle faster they supplement their diet with additional vitamins and nutrients which allows faster muscle growth. Also pregnant females are expected to take prenatal vitamins to help with fetal development. So here's my thought process on this... If you have a baby ball python why not boost them with a vitamin? If you have a gravid female or one trying to build prior to ovulation why not give her a boost? If you have an animal with scale rot or RI or any other illness why not give them a boost?

Is it essential? No, maybe not. Will they survive without it? Probably. But my thought is if there is a chance it may help why not do it? I mean the stuff is under ten bucks and that's enough to inject a lot of rodents. So my thought process is why not? I mean I highly doubt that anyone has enough experience with administering these products to say that it would be detrimental to the animal.

[Kaorte]

You simply cannot compare the nutritional needs of snakes with those of humans. They are not equal.

Snakes get all of their nutrients from the food they eat. Humans do NOT get all the nutrients they need from the food they eat. Our diets are so flawed that we need vitamins and supplements to stay healthy.

Is it essential? No.
Will they survive without it? Yes, they will thrive.
why not? because there is not one proven need for it in snakes.


If you want to spend $10 to inject your rodents with vitamins, go for it. But I am telling you, you are wasting your time.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Ok first of all I'm not saying that reptile nutritional and human nutritional needs are they same BUT they are similar in that rodents don't always contain every possible nutrient that a snake could possibly need. Maybe the rodents do in the wild but that is because they feed on whatever they need or want. Rodents breed in captivity and fed a premade, man made food could be lacking in some way. This fact is proven by the while "what should I feed my rodents?" arguement which pops up on here pretty regularly. It's possible that whatever you happen to be feeding your rodents isn't "perfect" and may lack a nutrient or mineral of some type. Also it is a proven fact that frozen foods lose nutrition and minerals over time. So it's possible that an animal fed frozen thawed feeders could develop a deficiency. Is it a life threatening deficiency? No probably not. But were not in this to simply keep our snakes alive now are we? We want them to be in optimal health at all times. Is it proven that vitamins help? Is it proven that it doesn't? NO. To say it a waste of money is a little narrow minded. Who knows maybe a female that is supplemented with vitamin throughout the breeding and laying proves will lay a larger or healthier clutch. Who knows maybe a hatchling will have a better, faster growth rate. Wh knows maybe an I'll or injured snake maybe recover or heal faster.

To say it's a waste of money quite frankly is something you don't know for a fact. You're GUESSING it's useless just like I'm GUESSING it will be beneficial.

I for one want my animals to be as healthy as humanly possible while in my care and vitamins have been proven to help almost every species of pet and livestock that is kept in captivity and at a rate of a couple cents per feeding why not offer every possible advantage to your snakes that you
Possibly can?

[snakesRkewl]

I for one want my animals to be as healthy as humanly possible

Then feed well fed rats, nothing else is needed.