Are you asking how does one purchase so many greens for a baby iguana since they eat so little? My little iggy eats more veggies than my full grown, very piggy Bearded Dragon. This green guy eats a lot, and empties a bowl twice a day.

I have quite a few lizards-6 adult Beardies, 3 tegus, 1 M. uromastyx, and a baby Green Iguana. Plus, I like to eat fresh produce, so I buy a lot of fruits and veggies. I'll be honest, I don't always provide a variety of greens at every meal, but I switch greens when I buy them. This week I'm going through a bag of kale, last week it was fresh collard, next week it will probably be mustard. When I make a salad for the lizards, they get 50% greens, and 50% veggies that I change daily. It might be squash one day, then green beans, then peas or limas, or sweet potatoes, or dandelions and hibiscus (more greens, but I have a patch in my yard). Then I add a couple of pieces of fruit in season as a topping (mango, berries, grape, cherry, peach, banana).

So to make it practical, I capitalize on what I eat, and I learned how to keep fresh greens from going bad so quickly. When I only had one beardie years and years ago, I bought the smallest leaves of greens I could find, and I used frozen green beans so I wasn't wasting so much food.

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• Feeding by size? - RoadSpawn, Sun Apr 13 16:53:19 2008
• RE: Feeding by size? - sean46877, Mon Apr 14 09:27:04 2008
• Thanks - roadspawn, Tue Apr 15 09:21:12 2008
• RE: Feeding by size? - laurarfl, Tue Apr 15 06:52:59 2008
• Thanks - roadspawn, Tue Apr 15 09:20:03 2008
• RE: Thanks - laurarfl, Tue Apr 15 20:56:07 2008