Baby created has decided sleeping on the ground is more fun...

[Elizabeth Freer]

She's been eating crested gecko mix from Pangea every other day and dusted crickets twice per week. She poops every other day and it looks healthy. I haven't actually caught her shedding, but she has grown a bit since I got her. She's been on the table for a little over a month and the sleeping on the ground started day before yesterday.

The Pangea has no vitamin D at all, but Repashy Calcium Plus has a vitamin D. It doesn't specify which one, though.

Sounds like you might have calcium with vitamin D covered in the Repashy Calcium Plus you dust her crickets with.

Any chance Repashy Calcium Plus shows how much D3?

 

[Cyd]

Sounds like you might have calcium with vitamin D covered in the Repashy Calcium Plus you dust her crickets with.

Any chance Repashy Calcium Plus shows how much D3?

Looks like it's 20,000 UI/LB.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Cresties: D3 in crestie diets + dusting bugs with calcium with D3???

The Pangea has no vitamin D at all, but Repashy Calcium Plus has a vitamin D. It doesn't specify which one, though.

Check your Pangea for cholecalciferol. That is vitamin D3.

Looks like it's 20,000 UI/LB.

IU = international units

Zoo Med's Reptivite multivitamins contain:
Vitamin D3: 10,390 IU/lb
22,907 IU/kg

Less vitamin D3 is probably better.

***If there is D3 in the powdered diet given most of the time, do we also wish to be dusting crickets/insects a couple times per week with additional calcium with vitamin D3? In this case is dusting with a powdered D3 supplement overkill? Perhaps doing that adds too much D3 to the diet?

 

[Cyd]

Check your Pangea for cholecalciferol. That is vitamin D3.



IU = international units

Zoo Med's Reptivite multivitamins contain:
Vitamin D3: 10,390 IU/lb
22,907 IU/kg

Less vitamin D3 is probably better.

***If there is D3 in the powdered diet given most of the time, do we also wish to be dusting crickets/insects a couple times per week with calcium with vitamin D3? In this case is dusting with a powdered D3 supplement overkill and perhaps adding too much D3 to the diet?

If both Repashy crested gecko diet and Pangea compete fruit mix have vit. D3 and the calcium dust has it, what do I do? I can't not feed her and she loves cricket nights. Since she seems otherwise fine, is it possible that the D3 has nothing to do with it? I'm honestly asking because I don't know what D3 does, or how it's bad, or how to fix it when everything has it.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

If both Repashy crested gecko diet and Pangea compete fruit mix have vit. D3 and the calcium dust has it, what do I do? I can't not feed her and she loves cricket nights. Since she seems otherwise fine, is it possible that the D3 has nothing to do with it? I'm honestly asking because I don't know what D3 does, or how it's bad, or how to fix it when everything has it.

I don't know whether a vitamin D3 excess is causing her "ground" behavior. Still it may be too much D3.

Until we hear more, I think it is safe to continue with the powdered (complete) diet(s), but give her undusted crickets. How about that? A little D3 goes a long ways.

Vitamin D is fat soluble. It "sticks around" in our systems longer than some other vitamins.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Check out admin Hilde's message which is captured in post #96 on my leo caresheet: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/comm...cularius-demo-video-4-jan-2013-update-10.html

Scroll down to where Hilde talks about too much vitamin D3 causing "reverse MBD".

 

[Cyd]

So it appears she just likes the ground sometimes. She spent a few days up on her log where she used to sleep and once or twice went back to the ground.