What do crawling pet green iguanas grow up on? How much is the market price for one? How do you raise it?

Green iguanas are popular pets in the United States and are gradually introduced into China. However, because they are cold-blooded animals, unlike other animals, they need to be domesticated if they want to raise them. What do green iguanas eat when they grow up? How much is the market price for one?

Green iguanas are pure vegetarians, feeding mainly on the leaves, flowers and fruits of plants. One of the favorite foods for green iguanas in Panama is wild plum blossoms. Although there are many kinds of plants available for consumption, they should be fed with plants with a calcium to phosphorus ratio of 2:1, such as turnips, kale, squash, mango and parsnip, and avoid foods high in oxalic acid.

Feed formula:

Green iguanas in captivity do not eat the food they eat in nature, so it is necessary to provide adequate and correct food to ensure that green iguanas grow healthily without disease, and to pay attention to food diversity when providing food, so that green iguanas can get balanced nutrition. Common green iguanas feed formula is 30~70% solid vegetables, 30~70% leaf vegetables, 15% fruit, 0~10% grain.

Latest market prices:

Green iguanas cost about 80~500 a piece. The price of green iguanas is usually related to their appearance and size. Generally, the market price of green iguanas within 50 cm is about 150 yuan, and the price of green iguanas with a length of 65 cm is about 500 yuan. The price of green iguanas in various places may fluctuate a little, but it will not deviate too far.

Breeding technology:

1. Feeding box

Most people usually use fish tanks as breeding boxes for green iguanas because they are the easiest to buy and most readily available. Green iguanas can also be raised with iron cages to do a raising box, there can be wood and glass windows to do a raising box. If you use the fish tank directly, the ventilation will be bad. Iron cages are bad for keeping warm.

2. Ventilation

Ventilation problems are often overlooked. If it's a barbed-wire cage, ventilation is certainly not a problem. Even if it is the kind of glass tank with a glass lid can also be used, but can not use the kind of completely sealed top of the fish tank. If you want to use a cylinder, it is best to use a cylinder with ventilation holes next to it, so that there will be good ventilation.

3. Humidity

Green iguanas are lizards that live in high temperatures and humidity in Central and South America. Higher humidity is good for their enclosure skin, but maintaining high humidity in captivity is difficult, not only because of the complexity of the equipment used to maintain high humidity, but also because of the difficulty of maintaining hygiene in such high temperature and humidity environments. Because in high temperature and humidity, as well as food, excrement and other effects are easy to breed bacteria.

4. Cushion material

The principle of mat material selection is easy to clean and dry. Many people like to use newspaper as a cushion material because they can throw it away when they run out. In short, do not use wood chips, sand and other substances that are easy for green iguanas to swallow. Mat material reference: floor leather +PVC waterproof cloth; tile reverse paving

5. Calcium powder

Calcium powder is the best source of calcium for all reptiles and amphibians. Calcium powder includes D3-free and D3-free. D3-containing calcium powder is recommended.