whole prey foods

[new2tegus]

Hi everyone, just wondered if someone could break down the whole prey items by size of a tegu. I know Jekyll is close to 24in and finishing off a bag of fuzzies then going to hoppers. Just wondered what size would he need to be for rat pups or fuzzies and for later prey animals.

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

Depending on the size of your tegu it should be smaller than their head,.. not including the jowls or cheeks. Anything larger and too heavy they just make a mess trying to tear it apart.

 

[Rhetoric]

http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/feeder/16801-mouse-rat-size-chart.html
Rat pups (according to this chart) are 21-30g, the mouse equivalent would be large mice at 19-25g or XL mice at 30+g.

I don't want to feed anything too large, I'm probably overly cautious but my tegus are all eating 30-85g whole prey. That ends up being jumbo mice or small rats. If I do small rats they only get one each feeding, if I do jumbo mice they get 3-4 depending on when the last meal was.