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Posted by Flavia Guimaraes on January 30, 2003 at 22:17:01:
In Reply to: Re: Freezing Salad.....? posted by girlzilla on January 30, 2003 at 18:59:24:
My Star turtle too!LOL!!!
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:I freeze my iguana's food, too, and do the same thing- freeze everything seperately. Bud (my iguana) is really picky if it doensn't "look fresh", so I chop new food about every 1.5- 2 weeks, and freeze the excess. It seems to last about two weeks and stay really fresh. Do you have a food chopper yet?
:By the way, yeast isn't great for iguanas- it's high in phosphorus, and could really throw off the calcium:phosphorus ratio of your salad. Instead, I use thiamine (B-1) pills made for humans, and crush them up to replace the thiamine that is leeched out of frozen food when you thaw it. I found it in a small, family run drug store, and it's a little hard to find B-1 alone and not in a B-complex vitamin which contains nutrients the iguana doesn't need.
:When I first started adding thiamine and alfalfa to Bud's diet, I bought this fancy-schmancy pill crusher doodad from a health food store. It was totally useless-it took SO long to get the amount I needed in powder! Plus my hand really hurt. Now I put all the supplements in a ziploc, and pound it with a hammer on my counter- it comes out smoother, and it's a lot faster. Although the baggie is totally ruined after that. Oh well, the ends justify the means, I guess.
:There's a problem I still have, though- the B-1, alfalfa, and calcium supplement powders I add to Bud's food make it a little chalky tasting, even when I add water back in, and he sometimes won't eat it. If anyone adds alfalfa in a non-crushed-pill-form, what do you use, and does it work well? How much do you use?
:Thank you!
