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Summary: Rodents, meat and eggs round out the large Tegus diet. Learn more in this free video series and guide.
Shawn Fay is the cofounder/co owner of Regal Reptiles, a 15,000 square foot reptile education and propagation center and Rhode Island’s only reptile zoo. Regal displays over 400...read more
"Welcome to Regal Reptiles. We just gave the baby some food now what we're going to do is we're going to feed the big tegus. So we defrosted some mice we sprinkled a little bit of vitamins on them and it looks like he can smell and taste it already, he's interested probably. Let's move him back this isn't his cage we'll see if he will eat inside this cage for us. These guys will actually eat ground turkey you can cook up some eggs for them, they will eat some eggs they will eat live mice if you want to give them live mice. Every once in a while you have to be careful cause the live mice can actually bite back, these frozen mice they won't bite the tegu and hurt them. "
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