What

[sschind]

Rick, or anyone else

what are some of the better, practical, sources of dietary carotenoid supplements. I've been gut loading the crickets for my tomato frogs with a "color enhancing" fish food and with dried krill. I probably don't do it as much as I should so right now my frogs are more orange than red, although D. guineti do not normally get as red as D. antogilli and they are still not full grown. Anyway, is there anything else that works? Any powdered supplement or anything that can be dusted on crickets. I know Kent used to make a product for birds called "radiance" or something like that that was supposed to help color animals up but I have not been able to locate it through any of my distributors and I have never thought about it when I am online.

thanks for any ideas.

steve

p.s. if anyone else is into frogs and knows where I can find some cbb babies of Discophus antogilli I would be eternally gratefull. These frogs are #1 on my species to acquire list and have been for a long long time. I haven't seen them for sale in about 5 years and the last time I did I was a little hesitant to pay $100.00 for a baby frog.

[Cazador]

Hey Steve,

Argent makes a powdered product called "Cyclop-eeze" that has a very high density of carotenoids. It's what I use in an attempt to bring out the "reds." I'm sure there are many places to order it, but here's one source (Cyclop-eeze). Just in passing, I noticed some "color enhancing products" at Pet Zoo the other day, but I didn't even stop to read the labels. Therefore, I don't know if they're gimicks or the real thing. I'll take a better look and get a name brand next time I'm there. Cheers,

Rick

[sschind]

Ah yes, the Cyclop-eeze. I should have thought of that. I had some of the wafer stuff but none of the fish I had would eat it. I couldn't even get my African Cichlids to take it and they'll eat lint. I think I just fed it to the crickets to get rid of it but I didn't use it specifically as a gut load. Maybe I'll get another can when I go to get fish again.

Thanks

[Cazador]

You can either dust it on the outside or cram it in the mouth of a dead feeder fish. You can also slit open a pinkie (or strip of caribou meat if you prefer ) and put it in the middle before offering the food to your snakes. I only do it about once a month.