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Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

Natural diet Green Iguana

Fruits
Herbs
Leaves

Green iguanas are herbivorous species that primarily feed on leaves, flowers and fruits. In the wild, they have opportunistic tendencies, consuming small fractions of eggs, vertebrates, invertebrates and carrion.

Feeding advice Green Iguana

Feed quantity per day

0.7% of body weight

Sample percentage calculation

If an animal weighs 5 kg and eats 0.7% of its body weight, it will get

5 x 0.007 = 0.035 kg feed in total per day

Feed composition

1% Supplements
50% Leafy and cabbage vegetables
49% Other vegetables

Proportions (fresh product)

0.01 x 0.035 kg = 0.4 g supplements
0.5 x 0.035 kg = 17.5 g leafy and cabbage vegetables
0.49 x 0.035 kg = 17.2 g other vegetables

Diet suggestions

Not recommended

Fruits

Additional advice

Divide the “Feed quantity per day” over at least two feeding moments per day.
The supplements should be given according to the appropriate dosage that is mentioned on the labelling.
Although present in their natural diets, feeding fruits might lead to abnormal fermentation in the hindgut because of high sugar levels in cultivated fruits compared to wild fruits (read more about nutritional values of (wild) fruits and vegetables).
Stimulate foraging behaviour by stacking, hanging or hiding the feed (read more about feed enrichment and foraging behaviour).

Common diseases

An unbalanced diet may result in one of these more commonly occurring diseases/conditions:

Kidney Disease
Metabolic bone disease
Gout
Infectious Stomatitis
Hypothyroidism
Geophagy

Feed quantity per day

Sample percentage calculation

Feed composition

Proportions (fresh product)

DK Multi-vit

Calcitec (Calcium Carbonate)

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