Supplement necessary or not ?

[ConcinusMan]

Depends on how often you're feeding them pinkies. If its very infrequently, and they're getting mostly fillet, then yeah, go ahead and use a supplement. A very light dusting on one bite of food once a month or so is enough.

I think Steve can recommend a multi supplement. Like I said, I don't even use them. Even baby snakes get whole pinkies from me. Even if I have to chop them up and mix with fish.

[GarterGuy17]

Well Ill feed her pinks once every 2 feedings or so would I still need it ?

[ConcinusMan]

Probably not

[EasternGirl]

I need a multivitamin that I can put in the water because my male eastern has not been eating and I want to give him a supplement until he starts eating again...when he does eat he doesn't eat pinkies that often. Plus, if I try to put vitamin powder on his food when he does eat, he refuses to eat the food. My male albino and my female eastern eat pinkies all the time.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Vitamins you put into the water do nothing but sour in the water quickly and largely go to waste. Might as well not even use one! Also the taste may stop the snake from drinking... Have seen it before! The trick is to put a tiny amount of powder onto the back end of the food and offer it to the snake by the front end so they don't even know its there! Or wait til they are already eating and sneak a sprinkle onto the food then. I recommend repcal's herptivite for a vitamin supplement and their ultra fine powder for calcium. Use it sparingly, and make sure you check the expiration date and throw it away when it expires as vitamins break down after a while. I don't use much in the way of supplements because I feed a whole prey diet that is very varied. But if you need one, those are what I'd go with. I typically avoid anything diet-wise made by Four Paws, exo terra or Tetra. Their junk science annoys me and they use a lot of uneccesary things, like food coloring and corn and wheat in their turtle and iguana "complete diet"... Which to me is just as bad as calling purina dog chow a complete diet!

[EasternGirl]

Okay...thanks Shannon!