There are many diets out on the Internet that are, to say the least, horrible. Many are just either based on old information or are just made by people that don't know what they’re talking about. There are also a couple of good diets out there. The Iguana Den Diet is an excellent diet and is the one of the two that I prefer. It was developed by a man named Kevin Egan of the Iguana Den. An absolutely incredible man who devotes is life to saving and hehabbing sick and mistreated igs. I highly recommend that you not only use his diet but also check out the rest of his page, it is full of very useful info and covers lots of stuff that I didn't go over in my page. The below link will take you to his site.

The next diet is the so-called "Mk salad". This is a very commonly used diet for reasons I don't know. I personally see major problems with this diet. If not used properly it can be damaging to your iguana’s health. My problems include:

1) Diet is commonly used incorrectly

2) Diet is to high in phosphorus not high enough in calcium, which causes calcium deficiencies

3) Your iguana will loose interest in the food, refusing to eat it, which will intern increase, the chance of your iguana getting sick and undernourished. A seemingly healthy iguana can have internal health problems that can and will shorten the iguana’s life when fed on a poorly constructed diet.

4) The diet relies on vitamin and calcium supplements to make up for the poor amounts found in the diet alone

5) Iguanas are folivors in the wild, which means they eat leaves, so, why does this diet only consist of about 40 % leafy green?

These are all reasons why I would not recommend the MK salad. It is just, in my mind, not even close to the quality in the iguana den diet. There is no reason not to use the iguana den, as it is such a better diet than the Mk. I do however encourage you to visit the web site for any other information you may need as it does have good information on lighting, heating, enclosure, etc. I do not recommend you use the diet however. For this reason I have not included the link to her diet page. Many people may try to sway you into using it but I have found it is simply not as good as its cracked up to be. It is your choice and I hope you take my advice and use the Iguana Den Diet.

Melissa Kaplans Iguana Care Page