Blue tegu diet

[Eliot Perry]

What do you follow blue tegu owners feed your tegus daily?

 

[Martin]

I avoid feeding meat and stick to mainly defrost rodents large Dubai’s and locust and the odd quail eggs. My male is 4 and a half now and extremely healthy and active.

 

[Merlot]

Where the hell does every find locusts and large roaches, grasshoppers, and other nice large feeder insects? There are literally no places anywhere around me with quality feeder insects. My tegu has an awesome diet but I’d love to have some good large insects to introduce to the diet

 

[Merlot]

How old is your tegu and/or approx length

 

[BucknerCrestExotics]

I feed salmon, ground Turkey, chicken hearts, butternut squash, melons, blueberries, chicken eggs, chicken, carrots, collards, and occasionally large mice and chicks

 

[Debita]

Might try LLLreptile.com They ship now, and I've had good results. Haven't seen locusts, but you can get different sizes of frozen mice, and all the different worms, dubias, etc. Make sure you read their shipping info because it's very specific for certain things on certain days. I like them, they've been good about refunding problems, and get back to you right away.

I have a male that won't eat insects at all, and a female that is a super worm fiend.

 

[rats]

My blue likes variety (except greens -- he never got into that) so in rotation (not all this every day!) he gets ground raw turkey, raw salmon, roast chicken, hard-boiled eggs (sans shells, chopped into small chunks), scrambled eggs (cooled down), grapes (chopped lengthwise so he won't choke, just like you do for your kids!), strawberries (chopped), blueberries, raspberries -- he doesn't like bananas for some reason (but the B+W tegu loves them!). We'd give him raw egg but he's such a messy eater, we'd have to feed him that in the tub or sink! He also gets dubia roaches every now and then (he loves to play with them -- toss them in the air, grab them after they start to walk away, etc.); when he was young, he ate crickets but now he just ignores them -- I think he thinks they're fleas or something. Haven't done much with mice -- not sure if he'll take one.

Basically, blues are omnivorous and like most anything. But they all have preferences so you have to figure it out.

 

[SheriDemou]

I feed salmon, ground Turkey, chicken hearts, butternut squash, melons, blueberries, chicken eggs, chicken, carrots, collards, and occasionally large mice and chicks

Where do you get chicken hearts?

 

[LizardStudent]

Where do you get chicken hearts?

I've bought frozen chicken hearts at kroger, but you could also go to a local butcher shop and they should have them. Likewise I think that Asian markets will tend to carry them, along with other odd-ish meats that make for great variety