feeding

[peaches]

How can i get my tegu to eat right when she sees her food?

 

[Rhetoric]

You can't force them. Sometimes it takes Guru 10-15 minutes before he eats if I decide to feed him outside of the enclosure. He's too excited and too busy checking everything out. How old is your tegu?

 

[peaches]

okay she is about 7-8 months old she is still confused of different food like i tryed to feed her fish today and she was licking it and all but never tried to eat it trying again tomorrow with fish and also liver

 

[Sirhc401]

Try to vary the food. Just like ppl I have noticed tegus have taste and sometimes prefer certain foods over others and want different foods

 

[peaches]

thats what im doing tomorrow i'm giving her ground turkey liver gizzards and fish and i will see what she like more s

 

[Rhetoric]

Mixing it up is the best thing you can do. Not all of them enjoy the same things. One of mine won't touch any kind of liver so I have to be sneaky in how I offer it. Some of them won't start eating too much of a varied diet until they age a bit, yours seems to be a decent age. For example, hatchlings are carnivorous and wont always take fruits, as tegus get older some really seem to enjoy them.

 

[peaches]

okay yeah i cant wait til she puts on some pounds and length cause she is going to be one gorgeous tegu when shes big

 

[reptastic]

Sometimes when new foods are introduced they wont recognize it as food and wont even try to sample it, i like rhetoricx's idea to mix it up so they at least might try it