How to Feed a Pet Sugar Glider

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name's Elizabeth and I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village and what we're talking about is how to feed your sugar glider. As I've said in other clips, you want to kind of keep the ratio to fifty to seventy percent fruits and vegetables and also you want to have a protein source which either insects, some sort of glider pellet or commercial dog or cat food, or you can also use, I personally use a zoo lion food, it's used by the Chicago zoo, it's called "Zoopreen feline diet". And I'll show you, each night they get a prepared mix so they'll get some mealworms and sometimes they'll get crickets. Tonight the mealworms are on the menu. They will also get about an ice cube, this would be for two sugar gliders, an ice cubes worth of a pre-chopped up fruit and vegetable mixture, from fresh produce. And then I will give this to them about two or three hours before they will wake up and let it defrost in the dish. They will also get something that I just call a glider nectar and what is in here is a little bit of oatmeal, a touch of honey. It's got acacia gum, which is a natural food from these guys, there's a little bit of yogurt in it and a few other supplements. You can look up these recipes online for a glider nectar or a BML mixture, so they get this as well. And then lastly they get a block of protein, and this is that "zoopreen feline diet", that I was telling you about. But, your other sources again could be a pelleted diet of some sort for these guys or monkey biscuits. I just like this food because it happens to be very high in calcium. The things that you don't want to add to this diet are, I don't like separating the fruits and vegetables for these animals because they will just pick out, like a little kid, their favorite foods. If you put all of the fruits and vegetables together in one big mashed block like this, they will eat both their greens and their berries together and they won't pick and choose what's healthy and what's not. That's for you to decide not for them."