Nutrition & Pet Sugar Gliders

Video Transcript

"Hi my name's Elizabeth and I'm representing Expert Village. Today I want to talk about the nutrition of sugar gliders. These guys are exotic pets and there is no complete food like there is for a dog or a cat for these guys. So all of their food pretty much has to be made from scratch. The number one cause of health problems for guys, cause of death and cause of any sort of health problems is nutritional deficiencies. Either from improper diet or over supplementation of these guys. So you want to be very careful what you feed them. You want to stick to fifty to seventy percent fruits and vegetables and the other twenty to fifty percent would be protein. You can use other carbohydrates sources and protein sources like a kibble, they sell sugar glider like biscuits, food. You can use monkey biscuits, dog food. They are possums so they're omnivores. A lot of times, some commercial food is beneficial because it will cover, it will have a little bit of added calcium and torrent and things that they won't get from a freshly prepared diet. These guys diet in Australia is actually a very nutritionally sparse diet so if you over supplement these guys and give them too much added vitamins and minerals it can actually make them more ill than it does them good. So the key to properly feeding your sugar glider is just to make sure you give them plenty fruits and vegetables and you want to stick to your dark leafy greens, berries, and tropical fruits. When you give them any sort of commercial diets just make sure it comes from a high quality protein source and that it?s from a respected manufacture. Other things that can be used and are generally a big part of these guys? diets are insects so you would want to gut load your crickets. You can use meal worms, beetles, they'll pretty much just take anything these guys really like sakatas if you happen to be in an area where you can catch a sakakta you can put it in their cake you can really watch these guys run around and hunt like they would in the wild."