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What Do Leopard Geckos Eat? – An Ideal Diet Based on Zoo Research

[…]“fuzzy” or larger mice to Leopard Geckos, as the fur may cause intestinal impactions.   Canned Insects Leopard Geckos usually take readily to tong-feeding.  Canned Grasshoppers and Silkworms offer a convenient means of adding variety to your lizard’s diet.   Wild Caught Insects As my regular readers are, no doubt, […]
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Black Rough Neck Monitor Care and History

[…]natural diet.  Wild individuals seem to feed primarily upon grasshoppers, roaches and other large insects, frogs, crabs, and snails.  Scorpions, termites, birds and their eggs, and fish have also been recorded as being consumed.   A rodent-only diet will not work well for Rough Necked Monitors. Youngsters should be fed […]

Cuban and Hispaniolan Green Anole Care: Keeping the “Other” Green Anoles

[…]Napper is a valuable insect-collecting tool. In order to increase dietary variety, try offering canned silkworms via feeding tongs. A mixture of papaya/apricot baby food, honey, liquid reptile vitamins, and water should be offered weekly. Food offered to adult anoles should be sprinkled with a vitamin/mineral supplement 2-5 times per […]
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The Best Live Foods for Pet Salamanders – Ensuring Dietary Variety

[…](Collembolla sp.) Springtails are minute (as in smaller than fruit flies), primitive insects that can be collected from beneath leaf litter or purchased.  They feed upon decaying vegetables and fish flakes, and breed readily. Wild-Caught Invertebrates Wild-caught invertebrates can impart important variety to captive diets.  Learn to identify stinging and […]
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Tokay Gecko Care, Feeding and Terrarium Design

[…]roaches, crickets, butterworms, super mealworms, waxworms, cultured houseflies, and silkworms.  Canned invertebrates may be accepted from feeding tongs. Tokay Geckos can be offered a pink mouse every 7-10 days.  Do not use adult mice, as the fur may lead to impactions.  Although they will pounce on whatever small creature comes […]
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New Studies on Reptile Intelligence – How Smart is Your Pet?

[…]Costa Rica, I observed Marine Toads that had learned to gather under a light and wait for stunned insects…most nights, they began congregating before the light went on.  I’ve seen wild wild electric eels  demonstrate their intelligence, and one recent study revealed that insects of the same species exhibit surprising […]
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African Bullfrog Care, Feeding and Terrarium Design

[…]be provided a nutritious diet; please see these articles on cricket and earthworm care). Canned grasshoppers, snails, and silkworms offer an easy means of increasing dietary variety. Never offer food with your fingers!  Use plastic feeding tongs – frogs are “unable to control themselves” when hungry, and often suffer wounds […]
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The Best Small Turtle Pets for Reptile Enthusiasts with Limited Space

[…]swimmers, Big Heads do best when kept in shallow water.  I always offer crayfishes, fresh and canned snails and crabs, but others have had success with standard carnivorous turtle diets.  They become uncomfortable when water temperatures rise above the mid-seventies, and fare best at 68-72 F.  I heat a semi-submerged […]
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