Hello all,
I am receiving my giant extreme tegu from bobby of varnyard either monday or tuesday. I have just about everything set up except I am still a little confused about the food. Every tegu herper or reptile store owner says to supplement tegus with something like zoomed repticalcium WITH D3, however if you read Bobby Hills care sheet, he is explicit in advising to use repticalcium WITHOUT D3. I planned on listening to bobby however then i read a thread about how its possible to overdose them on calcium, something called calcification. I dont want to feed my new tegu hatchling mice and apparently their bones arent even developed that young so i thought of a solution. I went ahead and bought a ninja food processor 700 watt, after checking some forums to see if this would be ok or not. I plan on buying whole chicken, turkey, fish (minus the heads) and grinding them up into mush (no visible bone shards) with either tegu safe fruits or vegetables. Then feeding the mush to my tegu? Does this seem like a good idea?
Since the only reason people feed their tegus pre killed and thawed rodents is for the calcium in the bones of said rodents. The reason for using a food processor is to bypass the trouble of feeding rodents specifically to achieve digestion of said rodents bones. theoretically you would achieve the same effect of feeding mice or rats.
Also, if this is a good idea, how often should i feed my new tegu hatchling a whole food prey item (mashed up meat, bones and organs). If i alternated whole turkey with bones and fruit, whole chicken with bones and fruit, whole fish with bones and fruit, then beef organs (no bones) with fruit daily would that be too much calcium? Since it is essentially the same as feeding mice, how often do you feed your tegu mice as hatchling? If i fed him in that order one meal a day, he would be ingesting bone 3 out of the 4 days i feed him, contingent on me feeding him beef organs such as hearts and liver. would that lead to calcification? should every meal have calcium in it? If I am doing that do I even need to buy a calcium supplement such as repticalcium? should it be the one with or without D3?
I will also feed my tegu eggs, however i dont think eggs and fruit taste good together so ill probably feed him eggs and fruit separately.
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