Commercial primate diet should be included in their meal because it is very balanced and therefore healthy food for your monkey. Make sure that fresh water is available at all times. Feed your monkey twice a day. For monkeys like spiders, capuchins, squirrels, marmosets and tamarins you should hang up your bowl or your feeding platform. Depending on the size of your monkey you will have to cut up the food in bigger or smaller pieces.
Vitamins are very important for primates.
Make sure that your fresh vegetables and fresh fruits is washed before feeding. Yogurt Cooked meat like chicken and turkey Cooked fish Rice Seeds, grains and nuts Insects like mealworms and grasshoppers Marmosets and bushbabies are known as gum-feeders. With their sharp teeth they gnaw holes in trees to get the gum. It is known that also other species like squirrels or tamarins like arabic gum. You can buy arabic gum at our store .