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. This is the staple.
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.
Most animals eat mostly brownies, with quiche worked into rotation. How often depends on the animal; find more answers below.
A note worth knowing
Bug Brownies are nutrient dense. Whole insect, ground and baked, so a piece carries far more than its size lets on. Your old cricket count will not match, and it should not. There is simply more in every bite.
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.
Put a piece down and watch.
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 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 struggles, period.
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 a measurement. Read its body/build instead.
Small Monitors
Ackies · Dwarf
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
Asian Water · Nile · Black and White Throat · Tree
This is the one place quiche can be 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 a lighter part. 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 quiche 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
Land-feeding turtles
(box, wood, and similar).
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 richer protein a shelled animal needs. Feed it on land, alongside their greens, fruit, and live prey, not in the water.
Omnivorous tortoises
(red-foot, yellow-foot, and other genuinely omnivorous species)
Bug Brownies, a small amount now and then, as the animal-protein share of a diet that is mostly plants.
Leopard geckos
Bug Brownies are a fantastic treat. Their real diet is live insects, so skip the quiche entirely. First, to kill the myth: cooked egg is fine, the raw-egg worries do not survive the bake. The upside is real, the egg gives them preformed vitamin A, which leos struggle to make on their own. The catch is the beetle in the recipe, whose hard shell is a lot for a small gecko's gut, even after milling. So keep it to a small piece.
Isopods and feeder colonies
Bug Brownies and ReptiQuiche both as a gut-load. What you feed your feeders becomes what you feed your animals
Isopods do very well and particularly love Quiche.
Where this food isn't the answer
We would rather tell you than sell you.
Some animals will not eat it. Chameleons and frogs hunt by movement and ignore a still piece. Crested and gargoyle geckos take a slurry from a dish and cannot work a solid. Snakes eat whole prey. For these, this is simply the wrong format.
And some animals should never have it. Uromastyx, iguanas, and plant-eating mammals like rabbits and guinea pigs are herbivores. Animal protein does slow, real harm to them over time. This food is not for them, and any honest keeper will tell you the same.