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I don't mean to make a plug, but has any one here ever used this Quantum Series food? The website is www.herpnutrition.com. They don't have a description for the cyclura food yet, but I can imagine it is very similar to the green iguana formula. If it has everything that they say it does, then it must be pretty good. It's not cheap though(at $50 a pound), so you would expect that(it is dry, though, and you feed it with greens). Any thoughts?

One of my cyclura would finish that in one meal.

Yeah, I have to agree. I feed 20+ Green Iguanas, 7 Cyclura Iguanas, and a half dozen other herbivorous lizards, fresh foods for about $40/week. I do have RepCal adult iguana pellet food available at all times for them to snack on. A 40 lb bag of pellets, which is $100 shipped, lasts me about 7-8 months. I know people that keep healthy iguanas using the Mazuri iguana diet and that's much less expensive than $50/lb.

I have 100 iguanas of various sizes, and it costs me about $40 a month to feed them vitamins included.

Well, there's only one supermarket here that has nice fresh greens...I usually use about 30 bunches a week at $1.29/bunch. The squash and veggies are cheap, probably cost me about $5/week. I'm currently feeding 24 GGI's, the 7 Cyclura, 2 Spinytails, 3 Bearded Dragons, 2 Mali Uros, and starting today, 2 Uromastyx Egypticus, plus 4 torts. These animals get fed on a daily basis. The Tegus and Monitors get veggies mixed with their ground turkey once a week also. Please tell me how you feed 100 iguanas on $40 a month!!

Dry food bought at cheap bulk prices. I miss california prices: 3 heads of either collards, mustards or turnip greens for 1 dollar. squash and second hand fruits for 5o cents a pound, and all they can eat free for the picking wild dandelions and mustard greens for about 3-4 months of the year. Not to mention less utility bills and a relatively warm stable climate.

While I agree it is very pricey it is meant to be used as a sort of dusting on top of greens. It is all dried stuff with powdery stuff in it. Supposed to be very balanced. I did order 1/4 pound one time and the igs and torts ate it. It lasts awhile cause you only use like a 1/4 cup at a time with lots of greens and it is light and fluffy. I would estimate the pound to be like 6 cups or something? Possibly more.

Carole

if it dried out the lizards feces? I feed chuckwallas and the problem is too much watter in the diet of greens. I have tried several other things and alfalfa shake from hay works well but it isa a pain to deal with bales of hay and moost of it goes to waste although the chucks do eat the stalks and dried leaves. I thought if this does dry them out it would be easier. Thanks, Tom

Hi, I didnt use it often enough to see if it might dry up the feces at all. I just used it supplementally (is that a word?) for several months. I think (and this is all theoretical) that the amount you use with the greens wouldnt dry them out much. It might bind them together a bit but you arent supposed to feed it to them so that is the main diet. They should still be getting plenty of fluid from the greens.

Carole