Reptiles, Amphibians and Invertebrates have changed and adapted within the wild habitat over millennia in order to obtain everything they need from their environments. They have adapted to use a certain level of sunlight, warmth, water and nutrients to be healthy.

As keepers we have had to attempt to replace those hard-to-obtain, essential vitamins and minerals with traditional supplement powders in a rather inaccurate way in the past. Here is where the problems start. Many of the plant, flowers and natural earth minerals are hard to find in local shops and as such are missed out from pet reptile diets. However, here at Arcadia Reptile, we see a difference between an animal simply ‘surviving’ and truly ‘thriving’. Through good science-led research into animal nutrition, we aim to fix these inaccuracies of the past.

Some compounds can become dangerous if oversupplied or supplied out of balance. These include the fat soluble vitamins A, D and E, because they are automatically stored in animal’s bodies where they can reach toxic levels. So we decided to look at safe, effective and wild-like nutrition.