Reptivite experience?

[Double het]

Are these healthy for snakes?

It's called 'Reptile Vitamines' but on the instructions they only mention how to put it over vegetables and insects. No mention of meat.

This is the product: http://www.zoomed.com/db/products/EntryDetail.php?EntryID=3&DatabaseID=2&SearchID=1

 

[texastailfeathers]

Snakes don't need them. In the long run they'll do more harm than good. Snakes get all their nutrition from the mice/rats they eat.

While a snake probably won't die from receiving vitamins, hypervitaminosis is never a good thing, especially for such primitive animals.

 

[diamondlil]

This thread might help
http://cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34345&highlight=supplements

 

[Double het]

It's for nursing a sick and malnurished snake back to health.

I'll read that topic. Thanks

 

[texastailfeathers]

It's for nursing a sick and malnurished snake back to health.

I'll read that topic. Thanks

I still wouldn't. The only supplements I would give a snake--even a sick/malnourished snake...especially a sick/malnourished snake--would be enzymes and beneficial bacteria. The beneficial bacteria will replenish gut flora and help rebuild the immune system, and the digestive enzymes will help the weak digestive system assimilate nutrients it wouldn't get otherwise.

Artificial/synthetic vitamins aren't as helpful to immune-compromised animals as you might think, simply because an immune-compromised animal lacks the ability to absorb and assimilate the vitamins. It's better if all the nutrition comes from food, hence the digestive enzymes and beneficial bacteria.

 

[Roy Munson]

I still wouldn't. The only supplements I would give a snake--even a sick/malnourished snake...especially a sick/malnourished snake--would be enzymes and beneficial bacteria. The beneficial bacteria will replenish gut flora and help rebuild the immune system, and the digestive enzymes will help the weak digestive system assimilate nutrients it wouldn't get otherwise.

Artificial/synthetic vitamins aren't as helpful to immune-compromised animals as you might think, simply because an immune-compromised animal lacks the ability to absorb and assimilate the vitamins. It's better if all the nutrition comes from food, hence the digestive enzymes and beneficial bacteria.

I agree. The only supplement I ever give is Nutri-Bac, a probiotic. Thankfully, I rarely even have use for that.