It is not always convenient to feed your reptile live food. One alternative for your pet reptile is the Super Food choice. Super food is a dust based nutritional food supplement.
The dust is created from insects, plants, fruits, and vegetables. These items are reduced to a fine dust that can be mixed with water to create a paste like food. Since the materials being used contain the same minerals and nutrients as any other food you are providing a healthy diet for your pet reptile. Furthermore, much of the dust mix is created with more ingredients than pellets, flakes, and of course live food. This allows your reptile to get more nutrients in one meal from the super food, hence the name.
Super food is created for specific reptiles. For example you will need to purchase a gecko super food, tortoise super food, or iguana super food. Each super food is going to have the correct supplements for the type of reptile you have. If you have a snake you would need to choose a different super food than what you feed an iguana.
You are also saving yourself the inconvenience of keeping live insects or dealing with them. You may love your pet reptile, but sometimes live insects or other live food is too much for us to handle. By offering the super food you can get around this disgust and still offer the nutrients these bugs offer.
Many of the super foods on the market will take two parts water to one part super food powder. You will need to mix the dust with water and let it sit for several minutes until it gels or becomes a paste like substance. At first it will be more of a liquid, but most reptiles will not eat it until it has been solidified. At the end of each day or in the morning of the next day you should remove any of the food that has not been eaten. It will not hold up like the flakes or pellets. After a day it will no longer be good to eat.
The super food package will come with an oxygen absorber inside to help preserve the freshness of the product for your pet reptile. You can keep most of the super food products on your shelf for up to six months as long as it has not been opened. Refrigeration can help keep the product fresh after it has been opened and until all of it is used.
Super food powder will vary on ingredients, but here is one example of Gecko super food to give you an idea of what they can contain. Super food may have banana powder, honey powder, hempola hempseed meal, bee pollen, calcium caseinate, fig powder, wheat germ meal, alfalfa leaf meal, vitamin a acetate, yucca extract, haemotococcus algae, rosehips powder, kelp meal, and marigold powder. As you can see the super food often has many different plants, fruits, and vegetables in the dust powder, and can contain insect dust as well.
