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He'll lick up most of what I give him. Yes it takes him forever since he just licks it like in the video. It's not his actual food or the only food he gets in the day, so he had a small dish of smoothie and some mice the day I took that.
I make these really horrible green drink smoothies that are made up of at least 70% kale. I add other greens, fruit, and seeds like ground flax and other random things like Greek yogurt if I have it (didn't this time). Because it's mostly kale and greens they always taste like ground grass...
jtrux, yeah, he has a bed obsession. That is a good idea with the water dish, I have a huge one for his outdoor enclosure when it's finished.
Laura, oh god, yes, Guts dumps his all the time also. I am thinking of getting something heavy and ceramic for him so maybe he won't spill it. I love...
Guts, my red tegu, really likes to sleep in beds, so I am always on the lookout for inexpensive beds to buy him because he also ruined them pretty quickly. I found this one, it's not covered but I figured it would do in a pinch. He has a separate area for substrate which is off to the right, I...
Great minds think alike, that is my plan. Also, thanks a lot for the suggestion, until I brought it up, my vet didn't even think the fruit might be a cause. I'll probably come back and update this once I figure out which fruits are the worst offenders.
Whoops, forgot to update this. So his fecals came back totally clean, my vet ended up saying he just might be an oddball like that. I did mention the food thing you suggested Laura and my vet agreed fruit might have a lot of fiber in it for him causing him to go... a lot more than usual. She...
Interesting. He has had a bit more lately than he usually does because he stopped liking some other fruit he used to like (blueberries, for example). When I'm at the vet's I'll have to ask her about that and other foods that could cause that if he comes back clean for parasites.
Chitodadon, he eats a wide variety of fruit, mice, insects, whole small fish, fish fillets, ground meat, offal, and soft boiled eggs. Currently he is eating f/t mice, f/t gourami fish, ground venison (farm raised), cactus fruit, offal, mangos, and boiled eggs. With calcium, vitamins, and cod...
Okay, so my tegu, Guts, seems to be filled with urates and fecal matter always. He eliminates up to 5 times a day.
...Is that normal? I have been trying to potty train him for a year, but he'll eliminate in the tub, then several more times while he is out free-roaming, once in his enclosure...