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Ok, from what I found out everything somewhat varies for people. Tessa, my argentine black and white tegu is fed once a day. She is just over 25 inches now, but was still on the same feeding schedule back in December when she was only 15 inches. I feed her mice of the appropriate size (yours could be eating hoppers at 1 1/2 feet) twice a week. Then I feed ground turkey like twice a week. The other days are all the crickets and superworms she can eat!! Sometimes I'll do crickets every day if she's not filled up on the ground turkey or mouse. I also offer fruit often, but she only will eat a grape every once in a while lol But it's given just in case she changes her mind. Since my girl is so young, I dont have experience with adults, and hopefully others will comment on that. good luck ~Christie
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 998 Location: South Florida
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:45 am Post subject:
Let the tegu decide when it's done. My albinos are both in the 2ft range. I feed an adult mouse or 2 per feeding. They usually won't take anything else. I'm still working on trying to get them to eat other things! _________________ John Light
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Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 998 Location: South Florida
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:
When feeding insects make sure you supplement them. An all rodent diet doesn't need supplements. _________________ John Light
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when u feed crix or melies make shure with the melies you pinch there head and feed as manny of the bugs as the "kid" will eat _________________ 0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*
some tegus are quick to swalow as ive learnd with gonzo and they dont chew and kill the melies (someones tegu died from eating live melies) and they swalow them hole and the melies can eat the inside of the tegus stomake.
Some one back me up _________________ 0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 998 Location: South Florida
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:
tegu_girl0 wrote:
some tegus are quick to swalow as ive learnd with gonzo and they dont chew and kill the melies (someones tegu died from eating live melies) and they swalow them hole and the melies can eat the inside of the tegus stomake.
Some one back me up
Again I've never heard of this. Please find out who's tegu supposedly died from this and bring them here. Did they have the vet do an autopsy to find the real cause, or to prove this actually happened? _________________ John Light
http://www.jlexotics.com/
yes the vet asked them if they were feeding melies and he said yes and the vet said were you smushing the head? and he said no the vewt looked at it and said the melies ate a hole in the tegu
and like i said i dont know who it was il look for it in a lil while i dont think hes here _________________ 0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*
My opinion, based on my own experiences, is that you do not need to crush/kill the worms. If you drop a mealworm or superworm in some water it dies within seconds. Not enough time to do any damage to a tegu from within it's digestive tract. I'd say this myth started, more likely, with a dead tegu that was found with worms crawling on it. Perhaps the worms even did some damage to the tegu after it was already dead.
sorry john for being carfull _________________ 0.2.0 German Shepherds *Khoda* & *Keara*
0.0.1 Ball python *Akua*
0.0.1 normal corn *seismo*
0.0.1 snow corn *sleet*
Joined: Feb 05, 2005 Posts: 122 Location: lapeer michigan
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:00 am Post subject:
yeah i dont think the meal worms could have time to do any damage... if you can imagine.. the stomach of the tegu has acids that can digest bone.. i dont think that a meal worm would live long enough to even try to bite
lauren
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