Common modifications, tips, and tricks used by BML users.

Here is a healthy, simple and easy to prepare glider diet that has been used successfully by numerous generations of captive sugar gliders. It is a nutritionally balanced diet designed to provide the correct Ca:P ratio with a wide variety of commonly available fruits and veggies and is one of the most popular diets currently in use.

This is a description of Darcy's Diet created by Donna Fritz.

Australian Research on the Diets Fed to Gliders in Captivity, Taronga Zoo Diet, Leadbeaters Mix, Conversions, Lactose Intolerance and Dairy Products, Balancing Protein Levels, List of Foods to Avoid, Ingredients and Where to buy Commercial Feeds and Vitamin Supplements like Mazuri Omnivore feed, Zupreem Omnivore Feed, Briskys Accu Feed, Glider Chow, Gliderade, Glider Booster, Nutri-Glider, Nekton-Lory, Lory Life Nector

Starting point for "wild" type diets. Flowers, pollen and acacia gum are added as treats.

This is the description for The HPW diet.

This page contains the HPW diet recipe, instructions, extra tips & advice, and a step-by-step video on how to make HPW.

Judie H. made a few minor changes to the BML mix because her gliders wouldn't eat the standard version. She has had good results with it. You might try it if you have picky eaters.

USDA data on Oxalic Acid content of selected vegetables.

This is a description of the PML diet. 'PML' Pockets Modified leadbeater's mixture, it is as close as you can get, to the Original Leadbeater's mixture.

Instructions on the diet developed by Priscilla Price, approved by her resident vet, and, more importantly, multiple generations of happy, healthy gliders. This is a relatively new diet to the general glider community; but, has received good reviews. It's probably a bit more complicated to prepare than some.

Reep's diet has been used for several years and several generations resulting in healthy active gliders. Unlike other diet mixes, this contains no honey.

This page has a list of safe fruits & veggies, complete with how much calcium & phosphorous are in each one, as well as color coding to show foods high in oxalates. Foods high in oxalates prevent calcium absorption in those foods.

This is the original HPW Diet, but with suggestions for how much gliderade to use and which fruits & veggies to feed to give a good calcium:phosphorous ratio in the diet. Getting the ca:ph ratio right seems to be one of the most confusing things to people feeding the HPW Diet. This website lays it all out and does all of the calculating for you.

This diet has been recommended by our vet, Dr Cianciolo. Its been in use for many years and many generations! It provides balance and because its rotational, helps prevent boredom.

Sugar Glider diet information.

Nutritional content of many foods. Good for comparing calcium/phosphorus levels, fat content, protein, and carbohydrates in fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, dairy and prepared foods.