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its saturday and i just chopped up all of buddys food for the next couple weeks, so i figured id give him an awesome salad!
has collard and turnip greens, butternut squash, okra, red bell pepper, cantelope, honeydew, strawberry, watermelon, grapes, mango. theres only like 1 piece of each of the fruit in there (except the mango cuz its a staple)
also 1 crushed Mazuri pellet, still trying to get him to eat them :headscra:

I would back off on the fruit and feed more green and yellow veggies as in nature they rarely get fruit at all. Mazuri Tortoise Chow [moist] and Iguana chow may be used as a substitute. Your lizard if fed a diet high in fruit will prefer it and over time be reluctant to eat what's really good for it. Fruit will cause the stool to be a bit more runny and is just plain not the best thing to feed if that diet you posted is standard fare. Once a week is fine to feed like that but not as a standard diet....
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com

thanks tom
i just did that yesterday
usually i feed the 2 greens, veggies, a couple pieces of mango and i hand feed one or 2 small pieces of fruit as a treat