Other ways to get Calcium?

[MsCham]

My 8mo veiled refuses to eat any type of insect that has been dusted with calcium (from heavily dusted, to minorly dusted, to barely not dusted at all) but I'm worried about his Calcium intake. I have to give a variety of things to gutload the crickets/superworms, and he gets hornworms as treats, but what else can I do?

 

[jannb]

If you gut load well with a good dry gut load and fresh fruits and veggies and feed allot of feeders that are high in calcium along with some natural outside time he should be ok. Just to be on the safe side you could also give him a drop of liquid calcium a few times a month. Foods that are high in calcium are butterworms, Phoenix worms, silkworms and horns.

 

[Gavinsons]

I know some people inject liquid calcium into their worms.

 

[CamoHerp]

Also check out Feeder charts. It'll give you a break down Of how much calcium is in your feeders, also protein etc

 

[mariaeatsairplane]

speaking of liquid calcium...is it ok to use a calcium spray instead of dusting the feeders? do you think it does the same job or is dusting better?

 

[kiapolo2002]

Another good way to do calcium is to include cali-worms and black soldier flies into the diet. Those all have a naturally high amount of calcium. And as others have suggested, you can also gut load your feeders with a high calcium diet as well.

 

[Gumball Machine]

I would think just feeding the crickets a high calcium diet could get rid of that problem?

 

[jajeanpierre]

My 8mo veiled refuses to eat any type of insect that has been dusted with calcium (from heavily dusted, to minorly dusted, to barely not dusted at all) but I'm worried about his Calcium intake. I have to give a variety of things to gutload the crickets/superworms, and he gets hornworms as treats, but what else can I do?

I would think snails would provide a lot of calcium since I believe their shells are calcium.

Probably at least as important as the amount of calcium is the amount of UVB. Most lights produce very little UVB. Without UVB, the body can't produce Vitamin D which is needed for calcium metabolism.

 

[junglefries]

I know some people inject liquid calcium into their worms.

Did you read their later posts about the exploding ones? (seriously)