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I wouldn't use it as a staple, using ground meat with no skin, bones, hair, and guts as an everyday staple will not give him enough diversity in his diet. His digestive tract needs that odd stuff in there for a proper meal. However using the ground salmon as a twice a month/ once a week meal I wouldn't see any problem with it. Try to stick with mostly insects for a young tegu's meat portions, with properly sized rodents (avoid pinkie mice and rats as their nutritional buildup is not very good yet, bones are still soft and they're extremely fatty) hopper mice with fur developed will make much better meals (chop them up if your tegu is too small to eat whole).