JurassiPet JurassiFruit Appetite Stimulant Spray - Banana

JurassiPet JurassiFruit Appetite Stimulant Spray is a fruit-scented spray used to tempt a reluctant plant-eating reptile into eating, in a 250 ml bottle.

Key Features

• Fruit scent, for the plant eaters: Aimed at herbivores and omnivores such as tortoises, iguanas and dragons. On a carnivore a fruit scent does very little, and the garlic-based JurassiGuard is the one that works.
• Gets juveniles onto a pellet: The usual job for it. A young animal raised on fresh food will often refuse a dry pelleted diet outright, and scenting it is how keepers bridge the gap.
• Eases a diet change: The same trick for an adult you are moving onto something new.
• Two scents: Banana and strawberry, listed here as separate options.

Using It

• Shake the bottle, then spray it onto the food before you offer it.
• On a dry pelleted food, give it about three minutes to soak in before it goes down.
• JurassiPet say there is no risk of overdosing, so you can use as much or as little as suits the animal. Start light even so, because a heavy hand can put an animal off as easily as draw one in.

Before You Reach For An Appetite Spray

• A reptile that has gone off its food is nearly always telling you something, and a scent spray does not answer it. Work through the husbandry first.
• Temperature comes first. A reptile that is too cold cannot digest and will stop eating. Check the basking spot and the cool end with a thermometer you trust rather than the dial on the mat.
• Then lighting. A UVB lamp that has quietly faded, or the absence of one, shows up as a poor appetite long before it shows up as anything else.
• Then the time of year. Brumation is normal in several species, and a dip in appetite through the cooler months may be nothing that needs fixing.
• If the husbandry checks out and she is still not eating, or she is losing weight, that is a reptile vet. Masking a symptom with scent is the one thing not to do.

Good To Know

• A 250 ml bottle.
• For herbivores and omnivores. For snakes and other carnivores, JurassiGuard is the garlic-scented equivalent and a separate listing.
• A feeding aid, not a supplement and not a medicine. It adds scent, not nutrition.
• Banana is in stock. Strawberry is not at the moment, so ask us for the lead time on that one.