What is your iguana's favorite food or treat?

My Iguana - This is my iguana, Luke Skywalker. He is a little bit bigger now, but I've been too lazy to take another picture. He's wrapped so tightly in my hand because this was shortly after I got him, and he really did not care to be held at all.
United States
June 26, 2007 2:34am CST
My iguana seems to like dark green food better than most anything. He will always go for that when he has a choice. I guess that's good though, since that's what he needs. His favorite fruit is watermelon. He still doesn't like to be picked up, but I do it anyway. Then he's so mad, he tries not to eat the watermelon out of my hand, but can never resist. He also enjoys apples a lot. I've heard they like oranges, but mine doesn't seem to very much.
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sharon_
@sharon_ (1169)
• United States
14 Jul 07
He's so cute! Have you ever tried giving him any grapes? Alex loves them. Also, when you give him greens, be sure and not let him have any kind of lettuce. Has too much of a water content in it.
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hermitcrabheaven
@hermitcrabheaven (645)
• United States
15 Jul 07
I have tried grapes, and he didn't seem to like them. It might have been because he was shedding, and VERY crabby. I don't buy them often, but will soon, to see if he likes them. I picked some fresh rose petals today, and he absolutely LOVED them. He was all ticked off cause I took him out of his cage after "bed time" but couldn't help but pig out on the roses. I make sure to only give him the dark greens like arugula, collards, dandelion leaves, and only occasionally throw in dark green lettuce. He only gets that when our "people" salad is just past it's prime. I won't even feed my family iceburg lettuce, so I wouldn't even think about giving it to a pet. I appreciate you posting that, though. I see a lot of pet stores giving their small iguanas big chunks of iceberg lettuce, and large chunks of carrots. Not a very nutritious diet. I also see them giving their iguanas crickets quite often. From all of the research I have done, it is highly agreed that iguanas are not actually omnivorous, but herbivores.
aninspiration
@aninspiration (346)
• United States
25 Oct 07
we went in a pet store the other ay and they had crickets in the cage for the iguanas we asked the lady about it she said they had just came in the day before and figured they would be hungry so gave them crickets she had no idea whatto give them I was shocked
aninspiration
@aninspiration (346)
• United States
25 Oct 07
ous love dandelion greens or the flower tops but not the stems they also like watermelon squash cantalope We grew a garden this year with lots of vegtables in it for them tho we eat them also just dont feed iceburg lettuce