It’s important for any exotic pet to get a varied, nutritionally dense diet—but how do you achieve that without making mealtimes repetitive? At the same time, going too far in the other direction can lead to spending extra money on food items your animal isn’t interested in just for the sake of variety. That’s why Reptilinks created dry pellets!
These small pellets are packed with natural ingredients in an easy-to-digest package. Whether you want to add something exciting to mealtime or encourage picky eaters with a new treat, Reptilinks’ dry pellets have you covered.
What’s in Reptilinks’ Dry Pellets?
Every keeper should know what’s in the food they’re feeding their pets. Reptilinks’ dry pellets are formulated using organic ingredients that are safe and healthy for omnivores. Ingredients include green beans, collard greens, dandelion greens, endive, alfalfa, insects (hisser roaches, crickets, and superworms), and rabbit (including the entire carcass).
If you’re anything like the average exotic keeper, it can be tough to get your animal to eat some of the foods that are most nutritionally dense. Your beardie might turn its nose up at those greens in favor of worms, or your tegu might pick through the green beans to get at the meat on their plate. Reptilinks’ pellets avoid this problem by packing all these vital ingredients into one small package.
If percentages are what you’re after, the pellets contain:
- Crude protein (min): 39.0%
- Crude fat (min): 9.0%
- Crude fiber (max): 2.0%
- Moisture (max): 7.3%
Why Try Dry Pellets?
There are plenty of reasons to incorporate pellets into your exotic pet’s diet. Some of the main ones include:
Enrichment
Every animal deserves to enjoy new and exciting experiences. In fact, studies show that reptiles that experience regular enrichment suffer from fewer illnesses than those that do not, and they tend to live longer as well. Reptile mental health is a real consideration, and adding dry pellets to your pet’s diet is a simple way to bring more excitement to the (literal and figurative) table.
Dry pellets are interesting! They’re a firmer texture, they can roll around, and they smell unique due to the blend of ingredients used to make them. All these features can quickly grab the attention of any pet that’s gotten bored of the same old same old.
Nutritional Variety
Reptilinks’ pellets are packed full of nutrition, which can serve as an ideal complement to an animal’s existing diet. One common challenge that keepers face is balancing the ratios of vital ingredients such as calcium and phosphorus.
If your pet’s diet is leaning too hard in one direction, they could begin to suffer from health problems such as metabolic bone disease. By adding pellets that contain a nutritionally rich diet, owners can help to balance the scales and reduce the vitamin and mineral gaps that their pet’s regular diet might suffer from.
Shelf-Stable
Omnivores require some ingredients that don’t store well—think greens and bugs, which can’t be frozen whole for an extended period of time without losing quality. Reptilinks’ dry pellets are shelf-stable, meaning they can be kept right on the counter or next to the enclosure for a quick snack. They’re the ultimate in convenience because there’s no defrosting, chopping, or going to the store required!
As an added benefit, they can also be hydrated to change up the routine, and this also does not require much effort. Unlike some food items such as dried flowers that take a few hours to absorb water and return to normal, the pellets draw in water quickly, so keepers don’t have to wait around. (This is why they’re also great for fish!)
If you want to keep your pellets around for months at a time, freezing them can keep them as fresh as the day you got them. For shorter periods, simply leaving them at room temperature is fine.
Handleability
No one likes to end up with ground whole prey juice on their hands or bug guts under their fingernails because they had to prepare a balanced meal for their pet. Reptilinks’ pellets are easy to hold without leaving dust or residue, so owners can simply sprinkle them onto the plate and move on with their day.
Which Species Can Eat Reptilinks Pellets?
Right now, Reptilinks has been focusing on an omnivore-oriented pellet formulation. That means that omnivorous species of all types have something to love here. Some of the species that have been enjoying the pellets so far include:
- Bearded dragons
- Blue-tongue skinks (BTS)
- Fish
- Tegus
- Basilisks
- Aquatic turtles
- Snapping turtles
- Box turtles
- Red-foot tortoises
- Painted turtles
- Rock iguanas
- Chinese water dragons
- Plated lizards
- Sheltopusiks (legless lizards)
- Peter’s banded skinks
If your species isn’t on this list, it’s not because pellets aren’t right for them—it’s just because we don’t have the space to list every exotic pet that loves Reptilinks’ omnivore formulation!