Dogs and cats are wonderful pets. But what if you want a smaller animal that will consume a negligible amount of food? It does not require education, vaccinations, buying ammunition, does not smell. Also, it will not make loud sounds, cause allergies and spoil in the wrong places. "Who is this?" - you ask. - "Fish in the aquarium?" A good option, but fish is also quite difficult, and there is practically no answer to your concern. There is an animal that is considered exotic, but is already very popular as a pet. This is a lizard. Interesting, isn't it? However, if everything is clear with the place of residence of this creature (a terrarium will be required), then what about food? at home?" - a question that arises quite often. Before answering it, you need to recall what they eat in nature. And this depends on the type of reptile.

What are lizards? According to the way of eating, they distinguish between herbivores (iguanas), carnivores (eublefaras, tokki, yellowbellies) and It is easy to guess that the former eat grass, fruits and vegetables, the latter eat living creatures that they catch, and the latter settled down best of all and eat both. .

However, if you have a herbivorous variety, this does not mean that it does not need animal food at all. Once a week, it is recommended to give such reptiles a mouse, and carnivores - a mixture of vegetables and fruits.

So at home? Undoubtedly, they have the same nutritional needs as their free relatives. But it is unlikely that grass rustles in your apartment, cereals are eared, numerous small mammals like mice run and insects live, and the animal can provide itself with food. The owner needs to think about the food of the reptile. With the question of what lizards eat at home, the owner goes to the pet store. In general, this is the right direction. There you can buy insects for your pet - fruit flies, tropical cockroaches, crickets, locusts, beetles), as well as small mammals (newborn mice and rats), newly hatched chicks and bird eggs. You can breed insects at home, and some owners also collect grasshoppers and snails in the summer and freeze them for future use.

What do lizards eat at home if there are no insects, no rodents, no birds? You can give them raw meat, deboned, and fish. Vegetables and fruits that feed lizards - carrots, lettuce, cabbage, apples. Sometimes they are given boiled potatoes and rice. Mandatory vitamin and mineral supplements for reptiles. They are introduced into fruit and vegetable mixtures or insects are rolled into them. Small representatives are fed every day, sometimes twice, large ones (for example, monitor lizards) need food less often.

By the way, the lizard drinks more than once a day, so there must be a drinking bowl in the terrarium. It is more convenient for some species to lick water from the leaves of plants, then you need to periodically spray the greens in the terrarium.

And what do small lizards just hatched eat? Such babies can be fed with spiders and other small insects, enchitreids, scraped meat, fruit flies (chameleons).