• A healthy diet is VERY important, serious health conditions will arise if your glider is not feed properly.
• Keep a positive calcium to phosphorous ratio, use calcium supplements that are non-phosphorous.
• A sugar gliders diet should consist of a protein source, vitamins, fruits and vegetables.
• Use vitamin supplements when necessary, but don't over do it, too many vitamins can be just as harmful as not enough.
• Start out by feeding about 3-4 tablespoons of food per night, per glider. If they eat it all the first night add a little more the next night until they leave only a little bit. Remember a sugar gliders stomach is about the same size of your thumbnail, and only holds less than a tablespoon of food/water.
• Often times breeders will offer pregnant or lactating mothers extra protein. Before doing this, be sure it fits into your current diet plan.
• Never add vitamins to your gliders water.
• Always follow the directions of your chosen diet.
• Fresh water and a high quality staple food must be available at all times.
• Feed you glider a varied diet within your chosen diet plan. This will prevent food boredom, and ensures a balanced diet. Example, feed various fruits, juices, vegetables, etc.
• Cat food or pellet base diets are not recommended. Sugar gliders are sap suckers, by feeding large amounts of hard food can lead to an infection in the jaw known as “lumpy jaw”.
• Do not mix diets. Each diet is balanced with the right amount of vitamins and minerals. Mixing diets can affect these balances resulting in either too much, or not enough of something.
• Give the diet a chance before deciding your gliders don't like it. Sugar Gliders can be like 2 year olds, and have similar eating patterns. One week they will go without touching any fruit, the next that is all they will eat.

Back to Basics BML / Judie's Modified Leadbeaters / Darcy's Diet
The ExoticDiet / PML Diet
 

The Modified Leadbeaters Diet Plan below, is one of the oldest and most proven diets currently in use. Please do not modify this diet in any way. Note that the Back to Basics plan has a specific list of fruits and veggies to be fed, as well as a time that mealworms should be fed.   

Presentation: Start out by feeding (per 1 glider):

• 1 Tablespoon of the BML mix
• 1 Tablespoon of fruits (apples, grapes, watermelon, cantaloupe, melon, frozen pitted cherries and blueberries)
• 1 Tablespoon of veggies (corn, peas, carrots and green beans)
• Feed 10-12 small, 7-10 medium, or 3-5 large mealworms in the morning.

Back to Basics BML Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup of Honey (Do not use honey comb, raw or unfiltered)
• 4 oz bottle of premixed Gerber juice with yogurt, (comes in mixed fruit or banana found near the baby food isle) Some places this product can’t be found, in that case, mix in 2 oz of plain yogurt and 2 oz of mixed fruit juice.(100% juice no additives)
• 1/4 cup Wheat Germ
• 1 Teaspoon of vitamin supplement (Rep-Cal HERPTIVITE is recommended)
• 2 teaspoons Calcium Supplement non-phosphorus with Vit. D3 (Rep-Cal)
• 2 2 1/2 oz jar of Chicken baby food
• 1 Egg boiled or scrambled (no shell)
• 1/4 cup of apple juice
• 1/2 cup of dry baby cereal
   

Directions: Put honey, egg, Gerber juice into the blender, blend until ingredients are mixed well. Add the rest of the ingredients, blend well for 5 mins. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze immediately.

* It will freeze to the same consistency as ice cream. 1 cube is about 2 tablespoons, this recipe should feed one glider for about a month