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There are several different types of lizard food you can offer your pet, to meet his nutritional needs. Crickets are one main source of food for carnivorous and omnivorous lizards. Make sure the crickets that you feed are loaded with nutrition before you feed them to your lizards.

Feed your crickets vegetables and fruits with a high nutritional level and a dust them with a supplement that includes multi-vitamins. When using crickets for your main lizard food, drop them into your lizard habitat while they are still alive, so the lizards can hunt them, as they would do in the wild. Don’t put in more crickets than your lizards will eat, or they will die and decompose, which will foul the habitat.

If you feed your lizards mice or other rodents, use frozen specimens only, because a vicious rodent can actually attack your lizards.

Sometimes lizards in the wild will eat fish, so you can include them as an occasional type of lizard food. Feed your lizards only freshwater fish, because saltwater fish can have a high salt contact that is not healthy for the lizards to consume.

Some worms are also used as lizard food. Butterworms, silkworms and meal worms can be valuable secondary foods for carnivorous lizards. Some lizards also eat the larvae of common earthworms, that you can probably find in your garden.

Make sure to regulate your lizards’ diet to their activity level and metabolic rate. Ensure that the food you give them is healthy and fresh, and also provide constant fresh water. By making sure that they eat only the most healthy of lizard foods available, you can help your reptile pets to live long lives.

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