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Walter1, while I would agree that it likely has never specifically been said "lightly", this is often how "dusting" is interpreted. The part of dpjm's post that I think will get overlooked is that to even get the proper ratio you have to do it to excess, and that dpjm is only addressing the ratio, he's not even touching on whether this is a sufficient amount. I would add to this, I've tried saying in numerous older posts, that it gets worse when people try to do the raw meat based diet. They still use the "dusting" idea, but when I've looked at the content of whole prey, and tried to replicate the calcium/phosphorus CONTENT that one would get from an equally massed whole prey vertebrate, the amount one has to add in basically highly changes the entire texture of the meat. "Dusting" is a terrible adjective to be using when for about a pound of meat you need to be adding cups of supplement. Add to this the foolish trend of people trying to get their tegus as big as possible as fast as possible (ie. typically a diet extremely rich in protein, extremely deficient in calcium) and it's a recipe for guaranteed skeletal pathologies.

<blockquote data-quote="Roadkill" data-source="post: 158502" data-attributes="member: 3844"><p>Walter1, while I would agree that it likely has never specifically been said &quot;lightly&quot;, this is often how &quot;dusting&quot; is interpreted. The part of dpjm's post that I think will get overlooked is that to even get the proper ratio you have to do it to excess, and that dpjm is only addressing the ratio, he's not even touching on whether this is a sufficient amount. I would add to this, I've tried saying in numerous older posts, that it gets worse when people try to do the raw meat based diet. They still use the &quot;dusting&quot; idea, but when I've looked at the content of whole prey, and tried to replicate the calcium/phosphorus CONTENT that one would get from an equally massed whole prey vertebrate, the amount one has to add in basically highly changes the entire texture of the meat. &quot;Dusting&quot; is a terrible adjective to be using when for about a pound of meat you need to be adding cups of supplement. Add to this the foolish trend of people trying to get their tegus as big as possible as fast as possible (ie. typically a diet extremely rich in protein, extremely deficient in calcium) and it's a recipe for guaranteed skeletal pathologies.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Roadkill, post: 158502, member: 3844"] Walter1, while I would agree that it likely has never specifically been said "lightly", this is often how "dusting" is interpreted. The part of dpjm's post that I think will get overlooked is that to even get the proper ratio you have to do it to excess, and that dpjm is only addressing the ratio, he's not even touching on whether this is a sufficient amount. I would add to this, I've tried saying in numerous older posts, that it gets worse when people try to do the raw meat based diet. They still use the "dusting" idea, but when I've looked at the content of whole prey, and tried to replicate the calcium/phosphorus CONTENT that one would get from an equally massed whole prey vertebrate, the amount one has to add in basically highly changes the entire texture of the meat. "Dusting" is a terrible adjective to be using when for about a pound of meat you need to be adding cups of supplement. Add to this the foolish trend of people trying to get their tegus as big as possible as fast as possible (ie. typically a diet extremely rich in protein, extremely deficient in calcium) and it's a recipe for guaranteed skeletal pathologies. [/QUOTE]

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