[EchotheGecko]

Help and advice needed please!

As it turns out I've been using the wrong suppliments for my leo. Ive been using a pure calcium suppliement for the dish 24/7 and another pure calcium to dust my food. Ive been doing this for about 4 months now. Im going to go to my local reptile shop and grab some calcium with D3 for dusting.

My question is - How much damage have I potentially done to my little man and is a quick change of supliments going to be enough to keep him on the straight and narrow?

He eats, sheds and poos fine. He's nice and alert, inquisetive enough. his temperatures are fine and as far as i can tell, hes a good weight and happy enough.

I will try and post some photos of him and his enclosure in a few hours.

Cheers everyone.

Jon and Echo.

[EchotheGecko]

Most recent ones.

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[Yoshi'smom]

I don't think you would have caused that much damage.
However, I would advise you to slowly ease him onto the Calcium with D3. I would say dust a few of the feeders on only one day of the week and then increase the amount of food that is dusted weekly until you are dusting all feeders about twice a week.
Just a light dusting too. Remember that D3 overdose is also possible.
We do indeed walk a fine line with our little gecko friends.

[EchotheGecko]

Yeah I've read you can overdose them. A few breeders I've spoken to have suggested a good dusting just one a week.


Just been to say hi to him so took a few more photos.

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[EchotheGecko]

He's actually looking a bit dark today. Might be a little cold so I've put his light on.

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[Mardy]

What you need is a multi vitamin supplement. You can leave the calcium without D3 in the tank, but your gecko requires a multi vitamin supplement for dusting purposes. Look for Repashy Calcium Plus, Zoo Med Reptivite, or Rep-cal Herptivite, all 3 will do just fine as multi vitamin supplement. Repashy calcium plus comes with D3 by default, the other 2 you'll want to pick the ones with D3. Then dust your feeders twice a week with it, and you'll be fine.

[EchotheGecko]

Might be a silly question, but will his colour appear brighter once I get him on the d3 sup as well? He is, I believe, a high yellow with some carrot tail in the mix somewhere down the line. He seemed to fade after a few sheds.

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[Mardy]

he looks super hypo tangerine to me, and unfortunately tangerines tend to darken out based on temperature, mood, stress level, and age. Try to up the temperature, that can help with getting the color brighter. Supplements will likely not change the color of the gecko.

[EchotheGecko]

well he's just devoured 4 crickets covered in Nutrobal so i think we're ok with dustings here. Though at one point through the the evening i thought the crickets were mocking my little guy

[cricket4u]

Originally Posted by EchotheGecko

well he's just devoured 4 crickets covered in Nutrobal so i think we're ok with dustings here. Though at one point through the the evening i thought the crickets were mocking my little guy

Don't leave crickets in the enclosure for more than an hour running around. Also I am not sure your aware that Nutrobal should not be used at each feeding and instead rotated with Calci-dust.

Edit: if I would have bothered to look at the whole thread, I would have seen the calci-dust in the picture If you were feeding mostly crickets than he would have been getting D3 from them and why problems were not seen.