Open your supplement shelf. If you only have calcium-with-D3, order calcium-without-D3 today and switch to the five-of-seven schedule.
Calcium without D3 carries the daily load — five days of seven.
D3 is synthesized in the skin under proper UVB. Daily dietary D3 stacks unnecessarily and risks long-term hypervitaminosis.
Calcium powder is dusted on every meal. The form matters: calcium-without-D3 on five days a week, calcium-with-D3 once mid-week, multivitamin once on Friday. The math: a chameleon under proper UVB is making its own D3 in the skin during basking. Adding daily dietary D3 stacks the dose unnecessarily.
Hypervitaminosis D is a slow-developing condition that produces calcium deposition in soft tissues — kidneys, heart, vessel walls. By the time it shows symptoms, damage is significant. The five-of-seven calcium-without-D3 schedule gives you safety margin even if your UVB is doing more work than expected.
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
The morning baseline photograph.
A single weekly photo, taken at the same hour and angle, will tell you more about your care than any forum thread ever could.
Tightening screen tension on a year-old cage.
After twelve months of misting cycles and live plant weight, screen panels sag in ways that quietly compromise climbing surfaces.
A 72-hour gutload window for dubia roaches.
Dubia gutloads peak somewhere between 48 and 72 hours after the colony moves onto a fresh diet. Here's the schedule we run.