Are there vegeterian snakes and lizzards?

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If you get a snake, you will need to feed it rodents. Only a few species can eat insects and fish, and they are not the easiest to take care of. One option is to feed them pre-killed frozen mice. They are safer for the snake and easier to store. Look into ball pythons and corn snakes if you think you can handle feeding pre-killed prey.

There are vegetarian lizards such as mali uromastyx and crested geckos. A crested gecko should still be fed crickets now and then, but most of it’s diet can be fruit and commercial crested gecko food.

Do some more research before you buy.

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A great vegetarian pet is an iguana. I have one and wouldn’t trade it for anything. They eat leafy greens and veggies like squash. Extremely easy to feed because usually what they eat is already in your refrigerator. The only thing you want to do is sprinkle some calcium on their food, but that’s not hard at all.

There’s no such thing as a vegetarian snake, but you can buy frozen mice, warm them up by letting them defrost and then just sitting in a warm area like in a patch of sun(never microwave), and then wiggle it in front of the snake.

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Snakes have the option of being fed pre-killed or frozen-thawed rodents. All snakes that do not eat rodents are seldom good beginner species as they are difficult to keep, skittish, hard to find captive-bred and require carefully planned diets to round them out nutritionally. If you don’t want to feed out mice and rats, a snake is not for you.

Vegetarian lizards are also some of the most difficult because you have to find and prepare a large variety of greens, vegetables and fruits for them to be healthy. You can’t raise a lizard on lettuce or just one or two types of plants, a good diet is usually five – seven staple greens with added veggies and fruit for occasional variety.

There are however a few lizards that are good for starting out; they all still require occasional worms and crickets on their diets to keep them healthy.

>Crested Geckos
Crested gecko diet ( a powder that’s mixed with water, looks like baby food), all organic fruit baby foods, fruits, yogurt, bee pollen, spirulina. Occasional crickets, roaches or worms 1-2 times a week for additional calcium.

>Mali Uromastyx
Collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, dandelion greens, kale, napa, bokchoy, mache, watercress, dandelion flowers and cactus.Vegetable mixture can be offered; carrots, lima beans, peas, corn. Fruits can be offered very sparingly, nothing acidic, cores or seed should be fed.

Young malis should be offered crickets, worms or roaches occasionally with the greens so they can get a protein source. 2-3 times a week will do.

>Blue Tongued Skinks:
50% vegetables and greens, 40% meat, mice, and insects, and 10% fruits.
Kale, collard greens, mustard greens, beet greens, bokchoy, etc. figs, papaya, mango, grapes, banana, diced apple, strawberry, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, melons and kiwi. Meats can include cooked ground (lean) chicken, beef or turkey, worms, crickets, roaches and occasionally, a mouse. No raw meat!

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I still firmly believe that it’s easier for the new keeper to start with insect eating, simple lizard such as the leopard or AFT geckos, bearded dragons ect.

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Iguanas? No. An iguana is a large lizard (4-6ft) that is not suitable for anyone beggining. Large (6*4*4 minimal) enclosures, high humidity levels, specific diet %’s, an often agressive, territorial, moody lizard do not make a great combo for a beginner.
I’m owned by a couple of these, and they are absolutely not what you want to look at.

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get a crested geck all they eat is crested gecko diet that you mixk with water and stir it up and they eat that but know snakes eat meat but garter snakes eat crickets worms fish ect same with rough green snakes and ribbons eat snails salamanders and cray fish

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I am not aware of any vegetarian snakes…blue tongue skinks are not vegetarians. I feed mine a mouse once every week or two. The only lizards that are truly vegetarians are iguanas, uromastyx and chuckwallas. There are a few more that eat veggies in addition to crickets and/or other forms of proteins. Bearded dragon, blue tongue skink, some geckos.

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Their are no 100% vegetarian reptiles. All require protein in some manner or another (whether that be whole foods such as mice or insect foods such as crickets).

If you are only concerned with a rodent diet, consider instead a Leopard Gecko or African Fat Tail Gecko. They generally do not stress from handling, are usually not aggressive, their care is relatively simple and they are fairly hardy.