Is there a tropical reptile that doest eat live food?
Crested Gecko definitely. They have Crested Gecko food at most pet stores now. It is made by Zoo Med. It contains all the vitamins, minerals and calcium that is necessary for it to survive. Besides the crested gecko food, they can eat tropical fruits too. You can also feed them baby food. Mine will let me hold him while he laps the baby food with his little tongue. They usually go for bananas, peaches, mangos and kiwi the best. It would be a good idea to offer some live prey every once in a while. It keeps them active and they LOVE to hunt. They are also pretty easy and fun to handle. They like to jump though so be careful with that. They aren’t too expensive either.
Thing is most small lizards eat insects and most vegetarian are closer to two feet in size or bigger. If feeding insects is what you don’t want to do for a pet lizard…crested geckos, gargoyle geckos, blue tongue skinks (can be fed a mix of cat food, greens, eggs and other non bug things..though they certainly wouldn’t turn their nose up at a nice fat silkworm or hornworm, or even some superworms once in awhile), Leachies, all types of uromastyx, bearded dragons (if you can handle a few insects but keep in mind, if you buy a baby, they need all those insects…though pellets are available for bearded dragons, they do not always eat them nor are all pelleted diets a complete diet…often dehydration and constipation plague dragons fed too much pellets if not kept properly hydrated).
