New tegu diet questions

[Lee1123]

I am adopting a juvenile b/w tegu in the next few days, so I've been trying to figure out diet stuff. I have a lot of reptiles, including a ball python, box turtle, and decent-sized common snapping turtle, so there's plenty of food options available, but I have a couple questions.

I've seen lots of food lists, but haven't seen any percentages. Like, what percent of their diet should be lean meat/organ meat/fruits/veggies? How do you change these percentages as they grow?

Also, I've seen a lot of people talking about making lean turkey meatballs with other stuff mixed in, which sounds like great meal prep for days I'm crunched for time. Does anyone have any recipes for anything like that?

 

[Tizzay89]

Dunno if your allowed to post links but here is your % from day 1 to adult.
Not sure if its 100% but from what i have seen from my many hours of tegu research web,youtube phone calls etc.. no 1 agrees lol

https://www.reptifiles.com/colombian-argentine-tegu-care/tegu-food/

 

[Lee1123]

Thanks for the link! I've had mine for just under a week now, and so far the only thing she's shown any interest in is pinkies (I've offered other things, she just wasn't having it). I imagine she'll probably open up to new foods once she gets over being somewhere new.

 

[Tizzay89]

Um. I think it will need more than pinky. Pretty sure i read on this site somewhere pinky mice are faty and not much else. They said to take a fluffy? And kinda dice that up. Lil smaller than your tegus head so it dont choke. And ofc dust everything with vita n cal powder. Mine atm wont eat any other than crickets. Which is fine cuz they packed with protein n vitamins like cal n phosphorus.

What u can try is to mix a pinky up with other foods to try n get it to eat that.

 

[RomanPort]

Yep, as far as I know, you'll want to mix things up. They'll probably not be interested in much when you first introduce them though.