How much does your tegu eat and how often?

[Abigail Buice]

I'm looking for weights of meats and proteins please! I'm thinking about getting a tegu and I am trying to figure out a routine and price point before I buy one! Thank you!

 

[Walter1]

Hi abigail. Will need to know how old/ big the lizard is= growing is more food than adult. Also, if it hibernates, that's a few months off from food.

 

[thatoneguy]

Mine is about 4 months, and can last a week or 2 with 2lbs of chicken hearts which cost like 2 bucks. 1lb of ground turkey usually last about a week, and I usually throw in some scrambled eggs too.

I don't feed crickets anymore but in the first 2 months was eating like 50 large crickets a week. Plus the chicken hearts or turkey.

I really don't know if my tegus eats as much as others or not, and some days he eats a lot more then other days.

 

[cihan yak]

Mine too. I wonder, how can my tegu go to hibernate? What can ı do for him? Temper or humidit etc.etc...

 

[Tigger]

Mine eats like every other day, she's lil over 2 ft. N it's not ver costly for the food.. Hard boiled eggs, ground turkey( I put in med size meatballs), n freeze. N once a week give her that. The meat will last a while, a bunch of dif fruit. ( n u can do the same put in portion sizes n freeze). Mine does not eat fruit for some reason.. N I've tried a bunch of dif stuff.. Every 2/3 weeks a mouse ( after that she dnt eat for 2/3 days) they fill her..

 

[Walter1]

Mine eat f/t mice say 40%, and some organ meat, occasional raw chicken strips/tenders, wet high quality dog food also 40% and some misc. fruit. But then nothing as the dragons sleep through winter in the basement at about 58-62f.