If you have chosen a lizard as your pet, you need to know everything about the peculiarities of its nutrition, and then the question of how and how to feed the lizard at home will recede into the background.
Lizards in nature, there are about 4 thousand species. They have different skin colors depending on the environment. And food, respectively, can also be different. It depends on environmental conditions, on air temperature, because lizards are cold-blooded animals. If the air temperature is below 20 degrees, they do not want to eat. Therefore, in order to maintain their health, you need to know the features of feeding and take into account the recommendations of professionals.
In order to understand how to feed a lizard, you need to determine what type of amphibian it belongs to. Lizards are herbivorous and carnivorous. But there are cases when both of them eat food that is unusual for them, and mixed up: vegetables, fruits, small animals and insects.
When buying this animal, weigh the pros and cons, because the lizards are very capricious, and caring for them entails a lot of difficulties. But if you are used to achieving your goal to the end, then try. So, what to feed the lizard in the home terrarium? You can always find special food at the pet store. Lizards prefer living small animals: grasshoppers,
larvae, beetles, mice and small frogs. You can give amphibians
earthworms, snails and even river inhabitants - small fish. All this living creatures must be in a lively and fresh form, otherwise your lizard will simply starve to death, refusing to eat "meat with a choke." This we are talking about carnivorous amphibians.
How to feed a lizard if it eats exclusively flora? Then you are lucky. Almost all vegetables and fruits eat such species, but prefer apples, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, bananas, and cucumbers. When buying a lizard, be sure to ask if it is herbivorous, carnivorous or eats everything without a choice.
In order to make the lizard comfortable at home, take care of its home. It should be a spacious terrarium, well ventilated and warmed up to 25-35 degrees. Do not forget that the state of amphibians is completely dependent on temperature conditions. How and what to feed a lizard at home if it does not want to eat? Faced with this
many lovers. Look at the thermometer, if necessary, increase the temperature. Then your lizard will stop sleeping and begin to move actively. And, of course, whet the appetite.
Now you know how to feed the lizard. It remains to figure out how to do this at home. In this case, ordinary tweezers will help you. Use it to feed your pet worms, larvae and all other animals. Since lizards like to climb branches, lay them slices of vegetables or fruits somewhere on the heights of the terrarium. If you are dealing with newly born baby lizards, they also need to be taught to eat. For this purpose, gently hold the animal with one hand, and with the other with tweezers, smear the larva around its mouth. Licking her lips, the baby will understand that this is food, and will quickly learn to eat.