Re: A word on iguana food..... ( Very Long.......Opinion of mine)

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Posted by Harry's Dad on April 02, 2000 at 07:41:50:

In Reply to: a baby iguana posted by tazzy on April 01, 2000 at 21:56:09:

I'd slowly ditch the iguana food as a main food source. You can slowly add fresh greens,fruits, and veggies to the iguana food, while decreasing the iguana food.
As far as your iguana not liking Veggies vs the iguana food, if you had a child that was eating something sweet all the time and then you said STOP, now start getting this strange tasting stuff....... do you think your child would eat???

I'm not a firm believer in "iguana food". If anything, I would only suggest using it as a additive.....say 5% of your iguanas diet. My opinion also is that "trust NO ONE in business" they're all out to make a buck! They could be adding stuff to the iguana food, that could make your iguana look great......but in the long run, it could be damaging to it's overall health.
Times are bad enough with fresh Greens, Fruits and Veggie with all the chemicals the farmers and other producers are using on them.
Here's an example: in the petstore trade, I would have to estimate in our area, only about 10% of the owners are honest and informative about their products. The rest....anything for a buck!! Like pet stores saying....Oh iguana's make great pets and they're easy to care for too. All you need is: 1- 10 gallon tank, mulch, this hide log, some small driftwood, some plastic plants, a heatrock,this lighthood and a 3 lb. container of iguana food. Total cost: appox. $175.00 - $200.00
In reality what you have that is usable is: driftwood, plastic plants and maybe the hide log; but they sold you what they wanted to sell you.
Don't get me wrong here, I understand that being in business you have to make money, but let's be real here, I'd rather see them mark up the iguana 1000% to around $75.00 and then tell "the truth" about them than sell them for $10.00 and bull-chit you. Most people will not spend $75.00 on the spur of the moment as they would on a $10.00 pet. And most people don't focus on the "extra cost for supplies" when spending the $10.00. They're more interested in how much they're spending ON that animal....vs what else they spend on supplies. So they wind up spending close to $200.00 for the setup....just to get a $10.00 iguana. But they wouldn't spend $75.00 for the iguana and then spend an extra 200.00 for the supplies.....that's just too much money!!! GO FIGURE!! You'd have to be a "true herper" to do something like that!
LOL sorry I got off the subject of canned food, but......it's all in the same handful of "Krap"....and I get so tired of seeing this kind of stuff going on in the pet trade.
The Opinion of HD only!!

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: I'd slowly ditch the iguana food as a main food source. You can slowly add fresh greens,fruits, and veggies to the iguana food, while decreasing the iguana food. : As far as your iguana not liking Veggies vs the iguana food, if you had a child that was eating something sweet all the time and then you said STOP, now start getting this strange tasting stuff....... do you think your child would eat??? : I'm not a firm believer in "iguana food". If anything, I would only suggest using it as a additive.....say 5% of your iguanas diet. My opinion also is that "trust NO ONE in business" they're all out to make a buck! They could be adding stuff to the iguana food, that could make your iguana look great......but in the long run, it could be damaging to it's overall health. : Times are bad enough with fresh Greens, Fruits and Veggie with all the chemicals the farmers and other producers are using on them. : Here's an example: in the petstore trade, I would have to estimate in our area, only about 10% of the owners are honest and informative about their products. The rest....anything for a buck!! Like pet stores saying....Oh iguana's make great pets and they're easy to care for too. All you need is: 1- 10 gallon tank, mulch, this hide log, some small driftwood, some plastic plants, a heatrock,this lighthood and a 3 lb. container of iguana food. Total cost: appox. $175.00 - $200.00 : In reality what you have that is usable is: driftwood, plastic plants and maybe the hide log; but they sold you what they wanted to sell you. : Don't get me wrong here, I understand that being in business you have to make money, but let's be real here, I'd rather see them mark up the iguana 1000% to around $75.00 and then tell "the truth" about them than sell them for $10.00 and bull-chit you. Most people will not spend $75.00 on the spur of the moment as they would on a $10.00 pet. And most people don't focus on the "extra cost for supplies" when spending the $10.00. They're more interested in how much they're spending ON that animal....vs what else they spend on supplies. So they wind up spending close to $200.00 for the setup....just to get a $10.00 iguana. But they wouldn't spend $75.00 for the iguana and then spend an extra 200.00 for the supplies.....that's just too much money!!! GO FIGURE!! You'd have to be a "true herper" to do something like that! : LOL sorry I got off the subject of canned food, but......it's all in the same handful of "Krap"....and I get so tired of seeing this kind of stuff going on in the pet trade. : The Opinion of HD only!!

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