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CVS Vivarium Naturals -  Premium Bee Pollen Whole Granules 

(Not broken down bee pollen powder)

Pollen is quite a varied plant product rich in biologically active substances. 200 substances were found in the pollen grains from different plant species. In the group of basic chemical substances, there are proteins, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and fatty acids, phenolic compounds, enzymes, and coenzymes as well as vitamins and bio elements.

 Bio-elements are present, including macronutrients (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, and potassium) and micronutrients (iron, copper, zinc, manganese, silicon, and selenium).  

• 30 percent digestible carbohydrates
• 26 percent sugars (mainly fructose and glucose)
• 23 percent protein (including 10 percent of essential amino acids)
• 5 percent lipids (including essential fatty acids)
• 2 percent phenolic compounds (including flavonoids)
• 1.6 percent minerals (including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, silicon and selenium)
• 0.6 percent water-soluble vitamins and acids (including B1, B2, B6 and C)
• 0.1 percent fat-soluble vitamins (including vitamins A, E and D)

Why are Biologically active micro-organisms important to isopods?

Terrestrial immigrants from the sea have to cope with two important nutritional problems: a shift in pathways of absorption, and the altered availability of nutrients. The more terrestrial species of littoral crustaceans switch to food as the main source of water and salts. No serious difficulties accompany the oral uptake of mobile ions, but the vegetarians amongst the immigrants are required to assume a new attitude with regard to the assimilation or heavier metals. Some important heavy elements, notably Copper and Zinc, are soluble in sea water but form rather intractable organic complexes in plant tissues. Herbivorous isopods on land are incapable of extracting copper directly from their primary food sources. To compensate for this shortcoming, help is enlisted from microorganisms, which render the copper present in ill-digested fecal material available to the crustaceans. Moreover, in terrestrial and intertidal herbivorous crustaceans—as compared with their marine relatives—the storage capacity of the hepatopancreas, as well as the efficiency of Copper-assimilation, is augmented; compartmentalization of Copper-storage is more rigorously carried through; the movements of Copper and Zinc within the body are more strictly regulated, copper, for example, being exchanged between different compartments in the course of endogenously or exogenously induced phases of the animal's life cycle. 

CVS Vivarium Naturals  - Dried Dogwood Leaves

This thick leaf will turn green when soaked in distilled or spring water overnight. Awesome ground cover leaf.

These super clean leaves are small, and make an amazing ground cover for any reptile vivarium. They have a thick cuticle and remain in good shape for months. Great addition to any amphibian vivarium. Bioactive Vivarium, Isopods for sale, Millipedes for sale.