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Vitamins?

Norwolf

Norwolf

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So I've had Pavel for a week now. I'm happy to report everything seems to be fine. He is 25 grams and about 15" long (don't know how to get an accurate length) ~ Normal ~ and eatting two Pinkies every 5 days. The temps and humidity are normal. He is still nervous when i handle him but doesn't try to bite. Somehow all the water came out of his bowl. He must have knocked it over but I don't know how -- the thing weighs 3x his weight. I will try to burrow it in the aspen a little.

so I'm wondering about vitamins. I have a book that says to supplement his diet once a month -- probably dust the mice.
 
A healthy Corn doesn't need supplements - they digest their food very efficiently and get all their nutrition from that source.

I keep vitamin and pro-biotics in my "first aid kit", but I only use them for sick or fasting snakes, or females that are having trouble recovering their bodyweight after egglaying.
 
Hello,

be very careful with supplying vitamins. If your mice are good quality, a healthy snake doesn’t need extra vitamins. A vitamin overdose is very dangerous for snakes, because they store them in their bodies and catabolize them extremely slowly. Meaning, they can't get rid of them, if they got to much. A vitamin overdose can kill a snake.
If you just had Pavel for a week, let him calm down first, before you start to handle him. They can bear the handling stress better when they settled in their new home. ;)

Hope this helps.
Greetings,
marike
 
Well rodents usually provide near full supplementation. As he gets older vary his diet a little mabye a rat pink this day, a mouse hopper, or even a quail or chick. When supplementing a prey item you may add to much and the animal may get hypercalcaemia or elevated levels of calcium in the blood. Very hard to correct.
 
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