What Sugar Gliders Eat

What do sugar gliders eat?

Staple diet for sugar gliders include fruits and vegetables. It is best to not mix fruits and vegetable when feeding sugar gliders. You can feed your sugar gliders fruit one night and veggies the next. That way you won't give your sugar gliders a chance to be picky. In addition to fruits and vegetables, you should also give your sugar gliders protein such as:

• chicken
• turkey baby food
• boiled or scrambled eggs
• crickets
• mealworms
• dry food

Feed the food above to sugar gliders in the evening and remove any uneaten amounts in the morning. If you are feeding dry food to sugar gliders, make it available 24 hours a day as supplement to their diet and an available snack for those day time ventures.

How about vitamins for sugar gliders?

Vitamins are necessary for sugar gliders' diet such as calcium. To give the sugar gliders some vitamins, just sprinkle it on their moist foods daily.

Will fruit give sugar gliders tooth decay?

Fruits are often sugary so excessive amount of sugary fruits can cause tooth decay in sugar gliders.