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Hello fellow reptile enthusiasts! My name is Grayson, I've owned reptiles for 20 of my 23 years, and work as the animal curator of a children's museum. This is my first time posting on any sort of forum (reptile-related or otherwise) and I decided that I wanted to get a bit more active in the reptile community and make some new friends. We just added an Argentine black and white tegu to my museum's menagerie, and so far it has proven to be a wonderful lizard. I'm pretty sure it's a male (it looks like it's developing the big jowls and I think I can make out those little button things near the cloaca); it's about two feet long, give or take an inch or so. Does anyone know how much food to give them in a single sitting? I have found many excellent lists of what foods to give them, but nothing on the quantity. All I want is for this little guy to be healthy and happy so if anyone could give a new tegu parent some advice, that'd be great. In addition to the as-yet-unnamed tegu, my museum has a bearded dragon (Jabette), a Chinese water dragon (Gandy, short for Gandalf), a rosy boa (Dolemite), a Sudan plated lizard (Spike), a box turtle (Bernie), two red-earred sliders (Zaratan and Yertle), a Chilean rose hair tarantula (Ozzy), some Madagascar hissing roaches, a banded coral shrimp, various freshwater fish, and a touch tank full of marine invertebrates. My personal zoo includes a mixed-sex pair of Mali uromastyx (Spike and Rex, male and female respectively), a Kenyan sand boa (Magica), a ball python (Mister Slithersworth, Mr. S for short; he's named for Mr. Bigglesworth, the cat from the Austin Powers movies), a 21 year old fire bellied toad (Joe; he was my VERY FIRST pet and has outlived every other animal we've had), and two miniature dachsunds (Vienna and Oscar, both puppies); deceased animal friends include a California kingsnake (Diane; she died of an intestinal carcinoma after 10.5 wonderful years), a pink-toe tarantula (Martina), another fire belled toad (Tony; I got him the same time as Joe but he only lived 19 years), a bearded dragon (Godzilla; she was huge for a female, nearly 20 inches long and 8 inches wide in her prime), a veiled chameleon (Freddie; we got her second-hand form my younger brother's first grade teacher but she was 11 or 12 when she passed), and a chow/German shepard mix who he lost to bone cancer a few weeks ago (Tawny; she was not only our first dog but the only animal in two decades if being a pet parent we've had to put down).
