How to Give Lizards Live Food

If you plan to purchase a pet lizard, be prepared to feed it plenty of live food. Your lizard will stay healthy eating a variety of insects and bugs, which you can purchase at any pet store that sells lizards. The following steps will show you how to feed pet lizards the live food they love.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Lizard
• Insects and bugs
• Bug box
• Insect food
• Calcium-rich vitamin powder
• Plastic zip bag

1. Choose live food for your lizard. As a general rule, the live food should not be bigger than the width of your lizard's head. Give your lizard an array of insects and bugs such as black and house crickets, flies, locusts, mealworms and wax worms.

2. Purchase food for your lizard from a reputable pet store that carries the live food it eats. Make sure that the source you are purchasing your live food from sells good quality insects. A reptile veterinarian can give you a good recommendation for a place to purchase your food.

3. Take care of the live food while it waits to be eaten. Put insects in a bug box or container and feed them vegetable pieces and soft fruit. You can also feed them insect food that you can pick up at the pet store.

4. Dust the insects with calcium rich vitamin powder before feeding to give supplementary nutrients to your lizard. You can purchase this powder at many pet stores. Place the insects inside a plastic zip bag and add just a pinch of powder. Shake the bag well until the insects are coated.

5. Shake the insects out of the bag inside the cage while being careful that they don't hop out.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not feed your lizard more than it will eat within a few hours. Make sure to remove any insects that have not been eaten during this time frame.
• Be careful when applying the vitamin powder to your insects that you do not harm the insects while shaking the bag or they could die before your lizard has a chance to enjoy them.