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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 130716" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>It looks alright. It states a list of vitamins it provides but vitamins are not included in the ingredients. Hopefully means that they are referring to vitamins or their precursors that naturally occur in the raw ingredients. This is important as some vitamin supplements can affect the absorption of other vitamins or nutritional elements. </p><p>Vitamin supplements usually contain only preformed vitamins, in a balanced diet preformed and provitamins (syn - previtamins) are present, the body will only convert enough provitamins to obtain the required amount of a certain vitamin, therefore a balance is obtained and overdoses are avoided. </p><p>One possible problem with the food is that calcium is supplemented and too much calcium in a tarantulas diet is said to cause problems with moulting. Whether this has been proven scientifically or is only backed by anacotol evidence I don't know. </p><p>My view is that a large part of a feeder animals nutrition is from the gut contents so providing a balanced, varied diet to your feeders will give the best chance of providing the predator with a balanced diet if only one type of feeder is used.</p><p>My advice would be to use the cubes if you find them convenient but supplement the diet with a range of fresh foods, particularly in the hours before using them as feeders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 130716, member: 27677"] It looks alright. It states a list of vitamins it provides but vitamins are not included in the ingredients. Hopefully means that they are referring to vitamins or their precursors that naturally occur in the raw ingredients. This is important as some vitamin supplements can affect the absorption of other vitamins or nutritional elements. Vitamin supplements usually contain only preformed vitamins, in a balanced diet preformed and provitamins (syn - previtamins) are present, the body will only convert enough provitamins to obtain the required amount of a certain vitamin, therefore a balance is obtained and overdoses are avoided. One possible problem with the food is that calcium is supplemented and too much calcium in a tarantulas diet is said to cause problems with moulting. Whether this has been proven scientifically or is only backed by anacotol evidence I don't know. My view is that a large part of a feeder animals nutrition is from the gut contents so providing a balanced, varied diet to your feeders will give the best chance of providing the predator with a balanced diet if only one type of feeder is used. My advice would be to use the cubes if you find them convenient but supplement the diet with a range of fresh foods, particularly in the hours before using them as feeders. [/QUOTE]
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