Food: Now coming to the food to be given to your pet iguana, naturally it should be given a healthy food. In their initial years, iguanas should be fed regularly daily. The older animals can be given food on alternative days. The type of food you feed to your iguanas will determine their health. The best food recommended for iguanas is leafy green vegetables. The bush or the plant that they select for their food is precious to them. They will guard it from the other species of iguanas. They spend their lot of time in eating or lying in the sun to get heat. They return to their tunnels and caves or hollow tree trunks at night. Male Rhinoceros Iguana are always on the guard against their predators and they will keep a watch from the top of tree or a rock while bathing in sun. You will like to keep your pet iguana healthy and want him to live long. We have discussed here the most common types of sicknesses of iguana that demand prompt vet care and will require suitable medication so that you do not lose your pet. Fibrous Osteodystrophy: Metabolic bone diseases are very common with iguanas. Many varieties of the iguana belong to arboreal category. These iguanas mostly live on the top of tree, in deserts, rocky trails and marine iguanas live in coastal areas in caves. Iguanidae family comprises primarily eight types of iguanas: These are Genus: Cyrclura, Amblyrhyncus, Conolophus, Brachylophus, Ctenosauria, Dipsosaurus and Sauromalus The Genus Cyrclura or rock iguana is found in Caribbean islands. The male iguana will find it as a confinement unless there is additional provision for him to move outside the closet to play and jump around. If you interact with your pet daily, it will make him more homely and it will have confidence in you. An open cage may not be suitable in view of the climate, and iguana will feel cold and may become sick. It has its exclusive characteristics of being able to nourish in the sea water. It is prospering only on Galapagos Islands and is named after the island as Galapagos Marine iguana. It lives in its natural habitat in boulders on shores of the Galapagos Islands. These iguanas are also living in marshlands on beaches and mangrove.