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Posted by Melissk on January 06, 2003 at 12:56:23:
In Reply to: I don't get it......... Unless................ posted by IGUANA JOE on January 05, 2003 at 15:27:11:
:Big Ig banner of the vegetarian commercial food.
Soy is a vegetable. So is corn. Just because a plant that isn't outright lethal, or doesn't fall into the nutritional wasteland in which iceberg lettuce and celery dwell, or cause bioavailability problems like soy and wheat, doesn't mean it is appropriate as a primary ingredient in green iguana or other herbivore diets.
Several years ago, when I was making double-digit gallons worth of ig salad every week, I used to wholesale some to a friend of mine who the re-sold it to some of her herp food customers (she bred rodents of various sizes). Someone else had contacted me about marketing my salad in dehydrated form.
For that matter, anyone can make extra salad and use a food dehydrator or even their microwave to dehydrate and store iguana salad and greens, putting them aside for use when the market availability falls off seasonally, when you go on vacation, or for emergency stores.
Other pet product manufacturers have marketed iguana foods that included some good plants in their ingredient listing. If what this new company is doing is selling a dehydrated form of a good iguana diet, that would be great for those who have trouble finding the fresh foods they need year round and don't want to get into dehydrating their own. But, as some have pointed out, it's hard to make a decision about whether to buy the product, or make an assessment of it, without knowing everything that is in the product.
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Melissk
Iguanas for Dummies
Anapsid.org: Herp & Green Iguana Care, Herp Societies/Rescues & Vets
