Tegu Question!

[gizmo17]

umm well i was wondering what do tegus eat? i know there are different kinds and some eat fruit but the meat eating ones...do they eat only mice and rats?

or can you buy chicken and turkey for them?

if so can they live off a diet with just meats you can get at the supermarket?

 

[RHETORIC]

mine eats scrambled eggs, mice, ground turkey, talapia, chicken, turkey necks, shrimp, baby food and some other stuff. ehhh generally they don't eat a ton of veggies, i've read that the reds eat more veggies than the b/w argentine's. I've got a b/w argentine and the only way i've gotten it to eat veggies was by mixing baby food into its eggs lol. Mines still young though, its about 2.5 feet long and around 5 months, give or take. If they do eat veggies its usually when they're a little bit older, as hatchlings they are all carnivorous.
You can also mix cod liver oil into their food. Whole prey is recommended about once a week but other than that you can feed it stuff from the grocery store, I'd stay away from highly processed meats though.

 

[gizmo17]

mine eats scrambled eggs, mice, ground turkey, talapia, chicken, turkey necks, shrimp, baby food and some other stuff. ehhh generally they don't eat a ton of veggies, i've read that the reds eat more veggies than the b/w argentine's. I've got a b/w argentine and the only way i've gotten it to eat veggies was by mixing baby food into its eggs lol. Mines still young though, its about 2.5 feet long and around 5 months, give or take. If they do eat veggies its usually when they're a little bit older, as hatchlings they are all carnivorous.
You can also mix cod liver oil into their food. Whole prey is recommended about once a week but other than that you can feed it stuff from the grocery store, I'd stay away from highly processed meats though.

ohh very cool! thank you!! but as far as the meat is it raw? or cooked? and what about the little bones in it?!

 

[ziggy23]

mine eats scrambled eggs, mice, ground turkey, talapia, chicken, turkey necks, shrimp, baby food and some other stuff. ehhh generally they don't eat a ton of veggies, i've read that the reds eat more veggies than the b/w argentine's. I've got a b/w argentine and the only way i've gotten it to eat veggies was by mixing baby food into its eggs lol. Mines still young though, its about 2.5 feet long and around 5 months, give or take. If they do eat veggies its usually when they're a little bit older, as hatchlings they are all carnivorous.
You can also mix cod liver oil into their food. Whole prey is recommended about once a week but other than that you can feed it stuff from the grocery store, I'd stay away from highly processed meats though.

ohh very cool! thank you!! but as far as the meat is it raw? or cooked? and what about the little bones in it?!

you mean a crunchy raw unboned real dead frog!!!

sorry couldn't help myself. (look up crunchy frog on youtube if you dont' know what I'm talking about)

 

[RHETORIC]

sorry im never on this forum... i'm sure you've figured it out by now but i always do raw. the only thing that isnt raw is eggs. i don't give it any bones except for the mice/rat bones.