The Best Before Date indicated on the package is the UK Best Before Date, for Canada & The USA this is extended by a period of 1 Year, UK Food packing laws will only allow for a 1 year best before date. Arcadia Reptile advises all their food and supplement products dates should be extended by 1 Year for Canada and The USA.
Reptile Foods and Supplements; A User Guide
The EarthPro range of Supplements, Supplementary feeds and Wholefoods represents the very latest in nutritional scientific thought and product sourcing.
Working within our Theory of ‘Wild Re-Creation™’ we have created a ‘Wholly-Natural’ and synergistic range of essential supplement powders and foods that will work with the animal and with each other to help ensure that your animal has fantastic, ‘Wild-Like’ nutrition.
We have developed this feeding programme that is easy to follow and that will help you to keep your pet in the best of health at all times.
Remember, no one powder or food can do the job on its own! We have to incorporate variety to provide for our animals properly.
Reptiles are ectothermic or ‘cold blooded’. This means that they obtain the energy that they need to move and feed from an external source. This external source is the sun, which provides them with heat through Infra-Red and light including UV. UV, among many other critical interactions, allows animals to create and use essential Vitamin D3.
Nutrition is broken down into 4 core sections;
1. Food
2. Water
3. Exercise (physical and mental enrichment)
4. External sources of energy (solar)
All of these elements are as important as each other.
Internal ‘food and hydration’ has many forms. Reptiles and amphibians on the whole consume a vast variety of food sources. We also have to factor in the vast variety of food sources that the prey sources themselves have consumed and the differing mineral structures of the earth in which the plants have grown. This is a vast and intricate ‘nutritional web’.
It is within this constant variety and having access to wild volumes of heat and UV-rich light that an animal is properly provided for, each according to its own pathway of development. Few species have developed solely to eat only one source of food; most have access to a high number of individual species in the local ecosystem. Each of these insects will have a gut content that is as rich and diverse as the ecosystem itself.
Why do we need supplements?
So WHY do we use supplement powders in the first place? The reason is quite simple. Captive diets are reduced in variety and may even contain components that these animals do not use in the wild. By increasing the variety of core food sources and using ‘Wild-Like’ sources of powdered supplement alongside ‘well set’ heat and UVB systems and providing access to enrichment we supply for the core Biological needs of our pets. We can safely provide these items easily using the ‘EarthPro’ programme of care.
