Lizards that are easy to feed?

Just curious, are there any lizards that
-- eat food that's easy to store or prepare (not live bugs or special diets)
-- and also make nice pets?

We love our panther chameleon, he's super friendly and fun, but the live bug thing is getting old. When he dies pf old age I'd like to get another lizard that's easier to care for.

Uromastyx.... friendly, easy to handle, reasonable size, and eat veggies and legumes. Only caveat is that they require basking temps of 110+ and lots of uvb.

Blue tongue skink, easy to maintain, you can prepare a batch of food for the month (meat veggies and fruits), freeze it and thaw when feeding.

gargoyle and crested geckos do not require live food. they eat a powdered diet you mix up with some water, can make a week's batch at a time.

I second the blue tongue skink. They can eat live, if offered. There are 3 things to be aware of: they need large enclosures (Minimum 4 foot long), the more popular Indos are still being imported so while you can tame it, it may never be 'puppy tame.' And they can be difficult to find or pricey depending on what species you are looking for (Northern is much more expensive and difficult to find vs Indos).

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Originally Posted by SilentHill

gargoyle and crested geckos do not require live food. they eat a powdered diet you mix up with some water, can make a week's batch at a time.

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I always heard this and assumed it to be true. However. I am really struggling with my crested gecko.

Hes so tiny and doesn’t exactly devour his food. I’ve had him about ten months. He was given to me as a gift.

Most crestie people I talk to say he’s tiny cause I don’t feed him bugs. Anyone else experience this ?

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Originally Posted by Phillydubs

I always heard this and assumed it to be true. However. I am really struggling with my crested gecko.

Hes so tiny and doesn’t exactly devour his food. I’ve had him about ten months. He was given to me as a gift.

Most crestie people I talk to say he’s tiny cause I don’t feed him bugs. Anyone else experience this ?

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My friend owns a crestie since it was a baby. She was told to strictly feed that Repashy/ Pangaea stuff. She also noticed how little it ate so the crestie forum suggested supplementing live crickets and that it was normal for them to pick at their mush food. After awhile it did well and now it is full grown. I would not pass off live if it can eat it.

I breed cresties, and all of mine eat Pangaea as a staple diet, but I found that supplementing with crickets results in healthier and larger babies and in adult females that lay larger eggs with larger more viable hatchlings.

i wish mine would take bugs. i rarely find one that will accept them. i have noticed a different bumping the temps up a bit. they are out and about more and have been eating their pangea/repashy with gusto. also hand feeding babies their mush helps kickstart their diets.

Thanks for all the input! I find it very useful to ask people who actually keep them rather than just looking at fact sheets on the internet. I am leaning towards a skink right now. I like their size and they seem rather chill and cool. I would not get one for quite a while, but I can keep an eye out for deals on larger enclosures, etc. now.

The crested geckos are cute too, but I somehow like the weight of the skink-- kinda like a cat or dog with scales. ;)