Repashy calcium powder comes formulated with vitamins and minerals for use by many leopard geckos owners.
Some keepers use powder to coat feeder insects with dust; however, leos may lick away any powder on their insects that gets onto their bodies.
Gut loading your insects and keeping a calcium tray handy are highly recommended; many keepers also advise taking multivitamin supplements.
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Calcium Plus
This vitamin (and mineral) powder will give your leo all of the nutrition it requires, including an optimal calcium-to-phosphorous ratio and multivitamin, in addition to providing retinol and carotenoids. We advise pairing this supplement with one that does not contain D3 due to excess levels being toxic to leopard geckos.
You can use this to either gut load feeder insects for your leopard gecko or sprinkle some on top of what they already eat. When gut loading insects for leopard geckos, be sure to provide them with high quality, nutrient rich food for at least 24 to 48 hours beforehand to ensure optimal results.
This powder has been specially developed to adhere to insects, making it easy for your gecko to lick. While some keepers choose to leave an open dish in their enclosure for their geckos to consume at will, this is unnecessary and could even lead to an excess vitamin intake.
ReptiVite
Leopard geckos in the wild get their calcium needs met through natural sources like rocks, soil and sand; while in captivity they must rely on supplements.
This multivitamin powder provides plenty of calcium, and includes vitamin D3 to assist your gecko in digesting it. In addition, there are vitamins B1, B2, B5, B6 and B12.
Before offering insects for your gecko to eat (such as crickets, dubia roaches, mealworms, and waxworms) into their habitat, cover them in supplement powder so the nutrients stick securely onto the insects that it will eventually be consumed by your gecko while eating them. The gecko will ingest these vital nutrients with each bite it takes!
This powder works wonderfully with most insect food. You can even use it to replace repashy leopard gecko food when time doesn’t permit fresh prep work for their meals – and best of all it won’t alter their flavor either! Many reptile owners appreciate its usefulness.
SuperVite
Leopard geckos are insectivores – they feed on insects – so their diet must include insects that provide an ample source of nutrition for gut loading and are no larger than the space between their eyes to avoid choking hazards. A top-quality commercial insect diet should provide just this type of sustenance for maximum health benefits in leopard gecko health. To maintain peak condition for your pet gecko’s wellbeing, ensure all bugs fed to it have proper gut loading capabilities before offering to your leo.
Feed your gecko two appropriately-sized bugs per inch of its body length daily. A high quality mineral supplement like Repashy SuperVite will ensure they receive enough calcium in their food.
Repashy offers several excellent supplements, such as Zoomeds calcium with vitamin D3 and ReptiVite, that will not only restore calcium to phosphorus ratio but will also supply other important vitamins that your leopard geckos may be missing from their food source. They contain various levels of Vitamin D3, making these suitable for non-breeding as well as breeding geckos.
Crested Gecko Meal Replacement Powder
Crested geckos require high-quality protein in their diets, and meal replacement powder is an ideal source. Many brands come ready-mixed, making mixing easy; just mix water into their powder to produce a tasty fruit smoothie-type food your lizard will devour! Not only that but these products contain plenty of fruits, vitamins and even crickets or insects for complete nutritional balance!
Crickets provide crested geckos with an excellent source of protein, and should be offered two to three times every week in their cages. You can feed these entire or cut up crickets as snacks.
Dubia roaches make an excellent feeder insect for crested geckos, providing nutrients while being easier to store than crickets.
