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LIMATT
07-30-2005, 04:09 PM
hey, i recieved a red tegu about 3 weekds ago and he really isnt interested in live crickets, ground turkey, and fruit sometimes.

he loves fuzzy mice and the other day when i tried to give him ground turkey i had to make a pinkie ground turkey wrap. do you think i'll have to do this until he gets used to the turkey.

i havn't even had any problems with rick's b&w lol

any body else have this problem?


i'm going to try superworms this coming week


thanks

ElliotJasChief
07-30-2005, 05:33 PM
you're already on the right track...just mix foods he doesn't like with foods he does. Rick often suggest this simple trick - combine ANYTHING with egg and a tegu will eat it :D ...then reduce the amount of egg slowly.

How big is the tegu? Big tegus will often lose interest in crickets and such...its a simply case of instinct - "calories it takes to eat vs. calories I get out of it" For larger animals its just not worth it to chase a little cricket all over the place for the amount of nutrition it contains. Much easier to expend only the calories it takes to chew in order to eat a nice slow moving baby mouse :wink:

Keep experimenting...your little guy will come aroung eventually.

LIMATT
07-30-2005, 07:04 PM
is that a hard boiled egg?

ElliotJasChief
07-31-2005, 02:16 AM
hard-boiled, soft-boiled, raw...whatever... :D