Questions

Lord_Duron · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 60

Ya well my first question is
Can I feed my Black and white
Ground Beef. ?

My second question would be
my Tegu Tila was 16in a month
ago. Now I've remeasure her and
she's only grown 2mm is this normal
or a tegu?

3rd what other types of vegetations can
i feed a tegu I feel like she's becoming sick
of her everyday food items I feed her
2 pinkys and about 21 crickets.
Next feeding I give her fruits
Next feeding is Eggs with Fruits in them.
and then I repeat the process.
Is their a site I can go to that would
list the items they can eat.
Please help I dont want Tila to become
bored with her food and then stop eatting.

Duron.

Lord_Duron · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 60

Could it be that she's trying to hibernate.
She show all the behaviors of a tegu trying
to hibernate.

Englishtegu · Valued Member Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: UK

Hi,

No growth in a month suggests to me that something is wrong somewhere. Its more likely to be a prob with your set up than boredom with its diet.

I would suggest that you look at your temps, particularly your night time lows. You may need to use a digital max/min thermometer to check this.

Hope this helps
Mark.

drfish · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

Ground beef is fine, provided it is good quality, low fat beef.

I know in this country, it's possible to get 95% fat free minced beef but not sure over the pond.

Lord_Duron · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 60

Her Temp is 90-100 on her basking side
and 83 on the cool. Is this off should I
buy another heater for the right side.

drfish · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:29 am Post subject:

When you say basking side, is that the ambient around the basking end, or the actual basking spot temp.

If it's the basking spot temp, then yes it about 20F out, but if thats the ambient, and the basking spot is a touch higher, it should be fine.

The ambient elsewhere in the enclosure is not really an issue, as the Tegu will thermoregulate to it's own requirments anyway.

Lord_Duron · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 60

Underneath the basking spot is 100
The middle of her 60 gal is 85
on the right is 83

and this is during the day.
Now could this be the reason
why she's hasnt grew very much
over this last month should I rasie it.
Another question is what should I lower
it to at night?

drfish · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

You should definately raise the basking spot temp, around 120 would be better.

It is possible he is not digesting food properly because of this.

The night time temp is not as importnat, as long as it doesn't fall too far below around 70

Lord_Duron · Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 60

Ok thanks Drfish,
I have raise the Degree
within tila 60gal now if I can only get her
to come out from under her Bark.
But I wont dig her out I'm sure she'll
come out when she wants. I just havent
seen her since I raise the heat.

racinkev · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject:

I have a simple question that I hope at least one person can answer, but how often and how extensive to I need to check on a tegu? I don't actually have one...yet...but there are a few questions that I want to know before I get one. Another question I have is if I should start breeding mice because I heard that I need to feed an adult tegu usually about 10-12 mice a week and my budget can be a bit low...

Teiidae · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

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elchupaneebrae · Member Joined: Dec 14, 2004 Posts: 70

mine eats mice bannas and turkey mix i cooked up myself
-chris