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Heaven...! I'm in heaven! That is one of the best looking animal I've ever seen!

Is he pure or cross? Beautiful!

>>Is he pure or cross? Beautiful!

He is a hybrid. His name is Bubba. Owned by KWE on breeder loan paired up with my female Baby(pictured below).

wow, he's incredible! how big/heavy is he?

Very nice!!! =)

That's a really nice and robust looking animal! Great job on your part! Do you feed your Cycluras starchy veggies like winter squash, parsnips, etc....? They seem to thrive on the stuff. They get a lot of the necessary sugar they need from this kind of veggies and hard veggies. I'm not sure what they eat in the wild to get the amount of sugar they need. A lot of the hard veggies actually has more protein and vitamins than all the leafy green veggies (even the dandelion green). Parsnip is probably the most nutritious vegetable in the world and possibly the most benign. It has the least calcium oxalate than the other veggies, both hard and leafy green veggies. Asparagus is a close second in terms of nutritional values and benefits, but a little high in calcium oxalate.

i think they eat a lot fruit in the wild.. there is a video on youtube showing that ... i feed my cyclura lots of fruit and they dont show any signs MBD and i have never had any lizard getting sick or health problems or broken bones from this diet.. so i dont think its bad to feed them lots of fruit.. i think the

key is to give them season fruit and veggies..

a lot of variation in fruit and veggies and a good calcium(non or low Phosphorous)vitamin mix plus good UV lights

Aren't fruits only available at certain time of year, though? When they aren't available, I wonder what they eat to get enough sugar for the daily calorie intake. I know that iguanas, particularly the green iguanas, have an incredible gastrointestinal tract that can extract a lot of nutrients from the plants they eat without even chewing on it the way horses, cattle, rabbits and other mammals do. Horses that loose their molars can die of starvation because of them not being able to digest the plants they eat. It seems chewing breaks down the cell wall a little, enough for the digestive enzymes to go in and break down the plant matters. But I've noticed that some people iguanas were getting a little thin given only leafy green veggies, but grow better and shed more often when fed some starchy and hard veggies; however, there are some iguanas that do well on leafy greens alone, according to their owners.

How many species of legumes are their where they live? I bet that's what they eat.... It's only a speculation...but you never know.

I give them a little more fruits during hot weather so they can get some needed moisture. Although, I do provide a bowl of water at all time, sometime they don't always drink when it's necessary just like we do.

there is different fruits suitable for animals available almost year round in most climates (fruits that taste good to humans are very few)

green iguanas do not do good on too much fruit.. they should be thin and long.. (they live in trees) but still they should eat more than 5% in my opinion.. more like 10-20%

Cycluras are very different to green iguanas.. and most the fruit they can reach have fallen on the ground therefore should contain more sugar than the fruits still up in the trees..

Also most iguana species have their vision tuned to yellow red and orange or colors in general.. they see colors much stronger than we do, this is a strong clue in my opinion to what they are searching for in the wild ...flowers and fuits..

Gorillas are a good example to what leafy greens can do for you.

I guess they eat more than just greens but they sure get big on mostly vegetation.

I know what you are saying.... It's just weird that some get a little skinny and do fine on just leafy greens. Maybe the wild diet is probably different because they hundreds of plants. If you noticed, once you get them eating the hard veggies, they prefer that over the leafy greens, at least mine do. I've read this from www.anapsid.org And I've personally seen it, too. When I didn't feed the veggies for a while, my green iguana didn't seem to be as rounded around the mid section; he didn't shed as often either.

Parsnips and Asparagus, I like both but I didn't know they were so nutritious, I might have to eat them more often and maybe share. I have always thrown the tough ends of asparagus out to the iggy's just because they eat them, they eat anything. I don't know how popular parsnips are, stew isn't stew without them too me. Thanks. KB

Parsnips.....I've always had mixed reviews from the iguanas. Some like them, others pick through them.

Damn Kevin, you need to learn to take better pics. Those pics of Bubba you sent me never looked that good! - lol

It's my dirt, it took a while for him to get enough in him to blue him up, or just bad photos He's a good lizard, now if he gets along with his new lady we should have some nice little ones next season. I have his sister but she has severe spine issues, but she is so nice I think she's my favorite iggy.

This ppair will produce GREAT offspring....thanks
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