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Vitamins?
- Thread starter JennyJ
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KaylaEliuk
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Too much of anything is bad. Good quality rodents have everything your snake needs.
The only time you would ever use vitamins is if your snake has a health problem.
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axis1
Fuhgeddaboudit!!!!
I just use a couple of drops of Reptisafe water treatment in my daily water changes for my little sneaky ones. I've heard (and read) that NYC has the best drinking water in the world, but after what happened in Flint, Michigan, ya can NEVER know, ya know? Don't really know if it does anything. (It's supposed to neutralize any chlorine in the water and add some electrolytes to what's already there, but my suspicious nature says that I'm probably just going through the motions). However, in my 45+ years of caring for reptiles, I have never had any water-related issues (that I KNOW of) but I kinda feel I'm gypping my snakes outta one of the better aspects of NYC drinking water, which is that chlorine after-taste that keeps me here and is one of the reasons I ONLY drink tap water (chilled, of course!) when at home!
BTW, I hear that rats have more protein by the ounce. I try to feed my sneaky ones the small variety which are a little larger than large adult or jumbo mice. They are available at Petco for like $2.50 a pop. Expensive, but worth it! The problem is that once they have rats, my snakes can become a little fussy, especially around breeding/mating season. But they MUST prefer them because their feeding response, evident by the way they strike at thawed rats, is much stronger than the nose-nudge they sometimes give a mouse, as if to say, "What? Mice for dinner, again?"
Just sayin'. :crazy02:
I'd have to agree with Kayla when she stated too much of anything can be bad. I've never given my snakes any sort of vitamin supplement, as it woyld be difficult to know how much is too much. I did happen to pick up an underweight snake that's having some hardcore issues with feeding and digesting completely. I'm going to introduce a probiotic. But unless there's an issue, a diet of mice/rats should provide them with everything that they need.
Axis has a good point with the water, as well. You never know what's in it. City water has chlorine and fluoride in levels safe for humans, but no one has really tested water with reptile safety in mind. Since I have well water where I am, and the majority of the water table here has been contaminated with pesticides from run off, I run everything through a Berkey filtration system. Nothing but pure H2O for my slithery children
Axis has a good point with the water, as well. You never know what's in it. City water has chlorine and fluoride in levels safe for humans, but no one has really tested water with reptile safety in mind. Since I have well water where I am, and the majority of the water table here has been contaminated with pesticides from run off, I run everything through a Berkey filtration system. Nothing but pure H2O for my slithery children