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Calcium is water soluble. You cannot overdose on it. Whatever the chams body can't use/ doesn't want, will simply be passed in it's waste. It's the fat soluable supplements like Vitamin A and D that are the dangerous ones for chams.Well if you put it that way he would be getting more concentrated doses the days he is getting calcium as opposed to getting a light dose daily. You def don't want to over supplement with calcium.
I posted that thread to show you what a heavily dusted cricket looked like. Should have made myself clearer. I thought the title would have been an indication of that.
Calcium is water soluble. You cannot overdose on it. Whatever the chams body can't use/ doesn't want, will simply be passed in it's waste. It's the fat soluable supplements like Vitamin A and D that are the dangerous ones for chams.
i did not read all of the anwers given above, i just thought id give you my opinion.
i do recognise what you are saying from what i have heard from a friend of mine with similar problems, i advised him to do the same thing as me and it solved pretty much all of his problems. here is what i do.
i personally do not like dusting, im not vegan or anything like that (no hate, vegans care about this planet way more than most of us) but i do not like additives in my chameleons diet.
i trie to put as much effort into gutloading my roaches as i can, and things are working out fine, i am a happy cham owner for nearly a year and i own other lizards as well that feed on the same bugs as my cham.
i do not say your cham does not need the minerals and elements included in the dusts, but i like to give it to them in a more indirect way, by gutloading.
if done correctly i believe your cham can live a healthy live( maybe even better) without dusted food.
i grow all of my ingredients for the gutload mix myself, or i gather them.
here are some of the plants and dustings i put into my gutload mix.
carrot( both the orange type and the white wild type that i gather outside)
dandelion
curly kale (much calcium, but i dont put in to much of it. anxiety with kale i guess, some kind of traumo from my youth XD)
a variety of beans( most beans are high on protein, and green snap beans are also good for calcium)
some walnuts( i have a tree in my backyard)
some sort of seaweed that i get at the market, dont know the english name
all of this goes together with the dusting and is blended and then frozen into cubes.
this way i get three kind of frozen cubes for each kind of dusting (multi vits, calci with and calci wihtou d3)
this way i can provide my bugs with healty food all year round. i feed my cham just as much as he wants.
i feed my bugs in the order that others feed their cham, calci without d3 cubes every day, calcu with d3 and multivits cubes every other week.
this way my cham gets everything i need in a more natural way,
feel free to critisize cause thats how people learn.
sorry for the long post and my bad english and that ive been away quit a while(but im back)!