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Hornworms and Calcium, the truth

Wed, 10 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT

What are the best methods to deliver Calcium to your reptiles? Proper calcium is critical to the health of your pet reptile’s bones – especially rapidly growing reptiles – but it’s not as simple to supplement as you might think.

Understanding Dusting and Gut-loading, why it may be necessary, it's risks and pitfalls

Wed, 10 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT

Dusting and gut-loading is a popular topic in reptile husbandry, and drives a lot of dry-good sales at retail for various insect dusts and gut-loads that promise to deliver a broad range of benefits to the insectivore. There are major failures in the market both in product quality, unsubstantiated claims, and poor education. We will discuss the following items more in depth in this post.

A Case for Live Food and Why Live Food Should Be Your #1 SKU

Fri, 12 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT

I want to introduce you to a pet food product that is a huge center for profit and foot traffic, but I won’t reveal the product until a little later. Here are some features of this family of products:

Who Eats What Chart

Thu, 11 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT

Different bugs for different breeds. If pets could order from a menu, they’d choose live insects and worms every time. But the creepy crawly that one species loves might be totally unappealing to another. To complete your pet’s diet, give it the critters it craves.