I live in south florida also and feed animal protien from time to time as well. In In the wild most of these lizards consume a very large amount of very low to almost undigestable plant matter so when the opertunity arises they eat animal protien redily. I try to also give mine as much low quality food (dried leaves, ficus leaves, grass, sea grapes with more seed then fruit) as they will eat. They often don't go for it if higher quality food is availabe so I will sometimes food process it and feed as balls. I also try to cycle there food with higher quality food available in the summer and lower in the winter. I have some great weeds in my yard that work great for a natural food. I do understand the problems in cooler climates and the fact that most people feed higher quality food then then they would get in the wild with alot less fiber. So the log and short of it do they need animal protien probobly not mainly do to the more diverse diet they get in captivity but they all eat some in the wild.

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