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Vitamins?

thelyonsking

thelyonsking

honest, I'll only get 1
I tried to add some vitamins to Tigegr's food tonight. I bought Jurassi Vite. Its kind of granular and flakey. Apparantly Tigger did not like it, as he sat in his feeding dish for 2 hours with 2 dusted pinkies while we were at church. When we got back, I washed the pinkies but he still wasn;t interest. I decided to put him back in the viv and just wait, but then I thought I'd try one more time. I put a pinkie in and he took it. So I am assuming the vitamins is what he didn't really like. How necessary are vitamins, and what do you use. I know my book said you could inject some into the mice is so desired... i worry about rupture, though :puke01:
 
Personally, I have never used vitamin supplements with any snake I have kept. I have read/heard that if you dip just the rump of the rodent the snake is more likely to take it.
 
i have never use extra vitamins, but i do make sure that my mice have extra good vitamin food.
 
I only use supplements:
- with females building up to/recovering from laying
- if a snake is sick or recovering from an illness
- in the water of non-feeding hatchlings

My healthy snakes don't get supplements/vitamins and they're fine. I'd say that if Tigger is actually put off eating by your vitamin powder, then it isn't worth trying it (as long as you have no concerns about his health).

If you're really that concerned, then you can get supplements that you dissolve in their drinking water, which might be easier than dusting food. I have Reptoboost as a probiotic to help maintain gut flora, Critical Care Formula as a general vitamin and mineral supplement, and Zolcal-D for additional calcium. I'm in the UK so I don't know if you can get these in the US.
 
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