Re: Green Iguana diet

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Posted by xta on May 15, 2002 at 22:11:31:

In Reply to: Green Iguana diet posted by Flavia Guimaraes on May 15, 2002 at 08:09:33:

Your diet needs work as suggested below. You would not give a child what he wants to eat or he would only eat candy and french fries all day! By the same token, you cannot give an iguana what he wants to eat. You are right that in the wild they would not encounter such things as pasta or rice or hardboiled eggs or cooked chicken!

A VERY small amount of rice or pasta each week is probably okay but lose the chicken and eggs. You need to add more calcium rich veggies like collards, mustards, turnip greens, dandelion, escarole, endive, watercress, hibiscus leaves. Your igs will eventually accept this diet and look forward to their small rice treats (I would use brown rice). The fact that they are in the sun is great and they are better able to overcome these dietary problems which is why you cannot see anything wrong with them now, but in the future, you could very well see kidney failure and their lives cut shorter. You obviously love your iguanas so I would suggest reading up more on this subject....

Try James Hatfield's Giant Green Iguana Manual. It is a very thick and good up to date book!

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: Your diet needs work as suggested below. You would not give a child what he wants to eat or he would only eat candy and french fries all day! By the same token, you cannot give an iguana what he wants to eat. You are right that in the wild they would not encounter such things as pasta or rice or hardboiled eggs or cooked chicken! : A VERY small amount of rice or pasta each week is probably okay but lose the chicken and eggs. You need to add more calcium rich veggies like collards, mustards, turnip greens, dandelion, escarole, endive, watercress, hibiscus leaves. Your igs will eventually accept this diet and look forward to their small rice treats (I would use brown rice). The fact that they are in the sun is great and they are better able to overcome these dietary problems which is why you cannot see anything wrong with them now, but in the future, you could very well see kidney failure and their lives cut shorter. You obviously love your iguanas so I would suggest reading up more on this subject.... : Try James Hatfield's Giant Green Iguana Manual. It is a very thick and good up to date book!

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