Feeding
How to use ReptiQuiche and Bug Brownies
The two foods
Bug Brownies is the everyday food for a bug eater. A spectrum of insects, ground and baked into a piece you can pick up.
ReptiQuiche is a staple for carnivores, or as a supplemental food for so many species. Farm egg, salmon, duck, and turkey, with the calcium worked all the way through instead of shaken on top.
Where the balance falls depends on the animal. Some lean on Brownies, some on Quiche, plenty eat both. Find your animal below.
A note worth knowing
Bug Brownies are nutrient dense. Whole insects milled down to flour and baked, so a small piece carries far more than its size lets on. These are the bugs themselves, concentrated, in every bite.
ReptiQuiche is calcium rich.
Both Bug Brownies and ReptiQuiche float in water.
Getting them to eat it
No sprays. No scenting. No tricks.
The first time, expect a beat of hesitation. Your animal will work the piece over, tongue flicking, deciding whether that smell is really coming from that round thing. Give it a minute. Once it tastes it, the question is answered, and it comes back for more. The shape is strategic, too. Place the piece round-side-down for better enrichment.
The Rule Under All of It
Heat, light, and water come before diet, and nothing makes up for getting them wrong.
Light is two jobs. A basking bulb's heat is one. UVB is the other, and they are not the same. UVB is what lets a reptile actually use the calcium in its food. Without it, the best diet in the world just passes through, and you get soft bones and weak lizards from good food. Replace the UVB bulb on schedule, its output dies long before the bulb does.
Heat runs the gut. A reptile digests with its environment. Warm, it handles a dense food easily. Cold, it can't, and the food gets blamed for a husbandry problem.
Water, the way your species takes it. However yours drinks, keep it available. A dehydrated animal always struggles.
You know your animal better than any chart does. This is where to start, not a rulebook.
Bearded Dragon
A beardie is a different animal at every age, so the diet moves with it. One thing most care sheets get wrong first: "adult at a year" is about length, not maturity. A dragon keeps filling out until eighteen months to two years. In that second year it is still growing, and it should still be fed like it.
Baby, up to about 6 months
Bug Brownies every day, as much as it wants. Quiche about once a week. Put a little salad in every day too, even though a baby will mostly ignore it. That daily salad is a habit you are building, so the dragon grows up eating greens without a fight.
Juvenile, about 6 to 12 months
Brownies daily. Quiche about twice a week. The salad starts getting eaten now, so keep it coming.
Subadult, about 12 to 18 months
Still growing, whatever the care sheet says. Brownies most days, easing toward every other day. Salad eaten daily. Quiche once or twice a week. This age plateaus and then spurts, so follow the appetite.
Adult, 18 months and up
Salad every day, that is the base now. Brownies two to three times a week. At that rate a jar lasts about a month. A simple rhythm: three brownie feedings, then quiche for the fourth. Dial the quiche up for a gravid female or a dragon you are bulking.
Savannah Monitor
A savannah is a bug eater, not a rat eater, and this is the food its body is built for. Brownies are the everyday diet. Quiche comes in now and then as a richer meal and a treat. They love it, and the variety is good for them.
If you have kept savs a while, you already know the rodent diet is what makes them fat and sick, and you are probably out there gutloading and dusting to do right by yours. This is that whole effort in one jar. The wild insect diet, already built, without running a feeder colony in your spare room or scouring for variety.
One honest note: a savannah always acts starving, whether it needs food or not. Its appetite is not the measurement. Read its body condition instead.
Small Monitors
Ackie · Dwarf · Timor · Tree
Brownies as the staple, and these fast little monitors handle frequent feeding well. Quiche in the mix here and there for the richer meal and calcium guarantee.
Live prey is the enrichment, and it should stay in the rotation for the hunting. Bug Brownies earns its own place as an unmatched spectrum of insects.
Large Monitors
Black or White Throat · Asian Water · Nile · Croc · Tree
This is where Quiche is the center of the plate. A big monitor on a varied diet of whole foods eats prey, organs, and quiche as the bulk of its diet with brownies too. Our black throat Romans feeds on 40-50% ReptiQuiche, 20% Bug Brownies, 20% organ meat, and the remaining 10-20% is chicken feet and prey items.
Here is why ReptiQuiche matters so much for large captive carnivores: meat and organs are heavy on phosphorus and light on calcium, which is the classic way a big monitor drifts toward bone trouble on an all-meat diet. Quiche is where the calcium comes from, in a food the animal actually wants. It anchors the diet.
Tegu
Tegus are true omnivores and the diet should look like it. Brownies regularly, Quiche regularly, fruit and the occasional whole prey item, and some plant matter for the omnivorous species.
This is one of the more even splits. Bug Brownies for the insect side, ReptiQuiche for the richer protein and the calcium. A varied tegu diet is hard to keep in mineral balance by hand, and these two put that balance in without you running a supplement shelf. Coming out of brumation or after laying, Quiche can be fed more heavily.
Blue Tongue Skink
An omnivore with a slower build. Brownies as the protein staple a few times a week, quiche in the rotation for the richer meal and the calcium, and a real daily share of vegetables.
If you already run a varied diet for your skink, this does the protein-and-mineral part in one step, so it is one fewer thing to balance by hand. Keep the greens coming. The plant side is real.
A few more that do well on it
Turtles and small tortoises
(box turtles, wood turtles, and the like)
One of the best fits here, and one of the most underserved. Both foods work. Bug Brownies for the insect side, ReptiQuiche for the calcium and the richer protein a shelled animal is built to eat. Feed it on land, alongside their greens, fruit, and live prey.
Water turtles and terrapins
ReptiQuiche is the one here, calcium and rich protein for a shell that demands both. They eat it wet, so drop a piece and let them take it fast, or feed in a separate tub to keep the tank clean.
Omnivorous tortoises
(red-foot, yellow-foot, and other genuinely omnivorous species)
This is where the meat belongs. ReptiQuiche is the one to reach for, the animal-protein side of a diet that is mostly plants. The bigger the tortoise, the more the Quiche earns its place. Brownies work too, in smaller amounts.
Geckos
Bug Brownies are real food for a leopard gecko and many other species. Cooked low and gentle, the egg is completely safe, and the raw-egg worries bake right out. There is a real upside, too: the egg carries preformed vitamin A, which they struggle to make on their own. Feed small pieces on a regular basis.
Crested and gargoyle geckos reap the benefits when you add Brownies to their slurry. Honest whole-food real insect variety.
Carnivorous fish
(cichlids, Oscars, bichirs, arowana, and other predators).
Whole insect and egg is exactly what a predator is built to hunt, and it beats a jar of dried flakes every time. Feed the Brownie piece size that fits your fish and watch them tear into it. This is real food for a real predator, not filler that clouds the tank.
Isopods and feeder colonies.
Your feeders are only as good as what they eat, and what they eat becomes what your animals eat. Toss either product in with your vegetable scraps and the whole colony is covered.
Isopods thrive on Quiche, and they will treat it like the prize it is.
Hognose snakes
Hognose can be maddening to feed, and the tricolor is the pickiest of them all, the kind that tests every keeper's patience. So it says something that two of the tiniest tricolors around were witnessed taking ReptiQuiche right up, no coaxing at all. If it wins over the hardest feeders in the hobby, it will win over yours.
Where this food isn't the answer
We would rather tell you than sell you.
Some animals won't eat it, and that is about how they hunt, not about the food. Chameleons and frogs strike at movement and pass over a still piece. Snakes take whole prey. For these, this is simply the wrong shape of meal, and no amount of coaxing changes that.
And some animals should never have it. Strict herbivores like most uromastyx, and mammals like rabbits and guinea pigs are built to live on plants. Animal protein works against their bodies slowly and quietly, and the damage is real. We could sell more jars by staying quiet about it; we would rather keep your animal healthy.
That is the whole point of everything above. We built this for the animals it is right for, fed the way they were made to eat. When it fits, nothing else comes close. When it doesn't, we will be the first to tell you.