They go through periods where they get tired of eating the same things like we do. Just give it a break for a while and then re introduce. It's better to keep tegus on a variety of foods.
I pretty much guesstimated how much to feed my tegus by the skin fold on their sides. Depending on their size and how hungry they are you will see 1 fold or 2. When they are full their abdomen is plump and round. Once they have digested the food and or relieved themselves then you'll start to see the skin fold/s. If not that prominent I would feed a little of something light like turkey or fish and fruit. When it was more prominent I went straight to whole foods.
When you feed smaller portions they eat more often, larger whole prey take longer for them to digest. So they either don't eat at all for a few days or not as much.
I don't know the size of your tegu but at 8 mths old it should be on whole prey larger than pinkies.
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