Adding fiber to the diet can help too. Fruit may make the stool runnier because of the liquid content, but a 1/4 teaspoon of plain metamucil added to food will firm it up. I have found that eggs make my tegus have runny stools.
A high protein content makes stool appealing to animals like dogs who like to eat cat feces. Cats have a higher protein diet so their stool is appealing to dogs. None of my tegus have been stool eaters, but my male will eat his sperm plugs. Now that's weird.
Laura R (FL)
1.0.0 Colombian Tegu
1.4.0 Argentine B&W Tegu
1.2.0 Red Tegu
1.2.0 B/WxRed Tegu
1.0.0 Green Ameiva (yet another teiid)
7 other lizards
1 little gator
3 FL box turtle
1 Sulcata tortoise
16 snakes
5 fuzzy pets
4 little frogs
a bunch of creepy bugs
and a partridge in a pear tree
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