cost of food

[audio]

how much does it cost you weekly, monthly, or w/e timeframe you want, to feed your tegu? how old it is would also be helpful

 

[VARNYARD]

how much does it cost you weekly, monthly, or w/e timeframe you want, to feed your tegu? how old it is would also be helpful

A hatchling will eat about 2.00 worth a week, and an adult is about 7.00 a week.

Thats on a diet of one rodent per week, ground turkey, fish, egg and liver.

 

[ColdThirst]

That may be a bit low. I somehow make mine cost out the rear to feed it every week but I guess to bring it sown to that number I have some serious shopping around to do with local grocery stores hahaha. but seriously i do to get it to $7 a week.

 

[olympus]

My baby tegu eats five pinkies a day or a fuzzy. My other tegu eats one large rat or a whole bowl of ground turkey every two days. Tegus get expensive to feed I hope you have the money. I recently went to the hamburg show and got 200 fuzzies for $60. At my local pet store they cost $4.

 

[audio]

yeah, that's why i'm asking lol, i wanna know what my minimum is that i would be spending if i got one.

 

[nrokin]

sweet! nothing near what i thought!

 

[LouDog760]

Hey Bobby. Could you give me a list of what you feed your tegus threw a weekly basis? I'll post what I mean below. And what would you call a "Staple food?"


Monday: COD Ground turkey liver mix.
Tuesday: Feeder Roaches
Wednesday: Mice or Rats
Etc..

 

[ColdThirst]

An update on the cost of mine. At first it would eat nothing but mice and maybee a bananna and mango. The mice at petco are 2.50 each or three for $6.00 Two of those a day plus the cost of the fruit which was about $2 each.

Now shes finally taking ground turkey with fruit mixed in thank jesus. The turkey is like $5 for about 2lbs. and that mixed with a couple grapes or half a bananna will last about 4 days. and my tegu is now over a year old.

Hope that helps but if you can buy in bulk from rodent pro or whoever by all means do so.

 

[mr.tegu]

try not to feed too much banana its not good as a staple diet. maybe a couple times a month as a treat. theres a thread on here all about why bananas are not good.