Mine don't recognize fruit as food, either, as yet. I feed lots (and I mean LOTS) of crickets. I use oranges to hydrate my crickets. Just put half an orange in the cricket box. That way I can get some vitamin C into the tegus without them knowing it. I raised two kids, and sometimes you got to hide the medicine in a treat! I also mix baby food 'fruit medley' with raw turkey or an occasional chopped hard boiled egg.



I think that when they are young, they are hard wired to eat bugs. I had to rub a fuzzy with cricket juice (don't ask - ugh!) to get the little female to try them. The larger male took one look at the fuzzy and went right for it. You might try glazing your mice with baby food fruit. Let me know how it works.



Good luck!



Leslie

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