Everyone post your tegu's diet!

[Dragonfly]

My tegu is still in hibernation and havent had a chance to feed her but I plan on feeding her....ground turkey/chicken (occassionally ground hamburger), turkey necks, chicken liver/hearts/gizzards, fish filets, super worms, possibly dubia roaches (a guy I work with breeds them), and fruits if I can get her to eat them. Along with calcium powder and cod liver oil. Oh and pinkies/fuzzies.

[the enigma]

rats...chicken breasts...(once in a blue moon) fish....ground turkey with fruits and veggies snuck in there, and dubias

[Tegs Rex]

2+ yearsish (adopted an abandoned) 40" Male

Primarily meat of any kind. Crazy for mice, but I only feed crawlers cause I buy in bulk for my snakes! Pinkies are just treats!

I have Roaches and I plan on trying, but haven't yet. Ground Turkey, eggs (raw, scrambled, soft boiled etc), Fish (Tilapia, Catfish, Salmon, Shrimp and Pollock, anything I can find farm raised and cheap really), chicks, chicken giblets, liver, chicken breasts, ground beef (rarely), Canned Tegu Food, Mango, Papaya, blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, oranges, kiwi, plum, apple, ummmmmmmmmm and when I have to force feed I grab baby food. Oh he's crazy about those lil tomatoes, but I was advised against it so I stopped, but he's never showed any crazy health issues, though I did have one while feeding him. It didn't quite add up to the tomatoes and I think it was chemical, but I haven't bothered since to see...

He's pretty picky and we kind of cycle through these randomly based on season and budget!

[Rhetoric90]

My males is 10-11 months old. He's 3 1/2 ft. My females are going to be 2 this summer. One is 2 ft the other is just over 2 ft.

They eat daily. My females had a little bit of stunted growth before I got them.

The all eat mice/rats, ground turkey, talapia, tuna, salmon, shrimp, blue berries, strawberries, chicken, apple, banana, baby food (if i can't get them to eat whole veggies), eggs, turkey, chicken livers, turkey necks, dubia roaches, whatever else I have in my fridge at the time

[Kebechet]

Link doesn't really have a set "feeding schedule" but he gets a mix of mice, blueberries, chicken hearts, tilapia, salmon, beef and chicken chunks, quail eggs, and shrimp. I'm working on getting more fruits into his diet now that he's awake. He won't touch anything with cod liver oil though, or beef liver. He wasn't fond of the ground turkey I originally tried either. He eats around 5 hopper mice a week. I'm planning on starting feeding chicken necks soon as well, once I can find a shop that has them. I want to make sure he gets that calcium that he needs

[laurarfl]

I started feeding chicken necks and have been quite pleased. I found them at a grocery store for a few bucks. I just pulled off the extra fatty skin and the remaining neck is the a good size for an adult tegu to eat whole. I cut up a small neck for my young tegu. They seemed to go for them and I didn't see any bones passed in the stool.

[Ray24]

Well i just feed mine boiled eggs ,crickets,and rodents

[Pajimjams]

Interesting. Tortoise mazuri I am aware are fed to iguanas as well as tortoises by many, are they suited to tegus too? They have good stuff in it, but there is also grasses and hay in it. Is that ok to feed tegus?

I also read about this dog food (HOW DARE I!!!!) called the BARF diet, stands for Biologically adequate raw food or something similar. I looked over the ingredients and it was basically raw (REAL, not by product)meats, organs, ground up bones, fruits and vegetables made into patties. I thought it sounded great for tegus, but read that there are dangers feeding this and that many vets are against it for dogs etc.? They are very expensive. Most seem to think it is nutritionally sound but that there are dangers with bacteria, parasites and possible sharp edges on bones? Does anyone know?

I have also considered feeding my tegu raw cat food. The food at least made by Nature's Variety, Primal, and Stella and Chewy's go through TONS of inspections to make sure there is nothing too harmful for people or animals. Though there still will be some salmonella perhaps but a dog's stomach is made to handle such a thing. There pH is lower than ours so they can handle it.

If people are feeding their tegus ground turkey, I think this raw food would be an excellent choice.

[laurarfl]

It's OK, we all have small amount of Salmonella in our GI tracts. It's everywhere. The trick is not to have an overgrowth.

[Tora]

I really wish I could find chicken necks! They're like, nonexistent down here. But I do get an amazing deal on tilapia filets. $11 for 15-23 filets! (~4lbs)
I don't have a schedule, I just mix and match so they don't eat the same thing every day.

Chell - B&W Argentine - Born 6/25/2010 - ~38"
Ground turkey, chicken liver, chicken heart, tilapia, rats, chicks, chicken, extra lean ground beef
Occasionally scrambled egg, canned bugs, seedless grapes, mango, strawberry, melon
I put various organic baby food on/in her main meals (only contains organic fruit/veggie and distilled water, no sweeteners). She rarely touches veggies/fruit otherwise unless she's in the mood for it. Same with the other stuff I listed as occasionally, she has to be in the mood for it or she doesn't even look at it.

Clifford - Red Tegu - Born around 5/2011 - ~15" (haven't measured yet, this is a rough estimate lol)
Ground turkey, chicken liver, chicken heart, tilapia, fuzzies, crickets, varied baby food, melon, extra lean ground beef
Rarely he'll get a bit of leftover scrambled egg. He loves it but he's too young for it still.