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Can Someone Poast The San Diego Zoo Diet Please. I had it, but I lost it.

Thanks,
Big Lizard

i believe i saw it on the pro exotics website or email robyn at proexotics----brian

Io lbs of groiund turkey meat -90 grams of bone meal- and 1 centurme vit.

For every 10 lbs of raw ground turkey add 90 grams of bone meal and two crushed Centrum Vitamins

You can break it down into smaller amounts keeping the same ratio
5lbs of raw ground turkey 45 grams bone meal 1 Centrum Vitamin

Great care has to be taken to evenly distribute the calcium and vitamin through out the turkey so that all the turkey contains the correct amount of calcium . This can be mixed up in large batches and rolled into meatballs the size of the rodent your tegu is eating and then frozen . Thaw only what you need for a feeding prior to feeding .

I don't usually recomend people feed this to their tegus as most people will not go through the trouble of weighing the bone meal and mixing it throughly . If it is not mixed just right and exactly as the recipe calls the tegus will quickly develop a calcium imbalance . No other calcium can be substituted for the bone meal in this recipe as calcium made for use on reptiles is designed to go on crickets which are high in Phosphorous and ground turkey is not .

There are very few companies that make bone meal for human consumption so it is not easy to find (you can NOT use the garden type bone meal made for roses etc.)

The bone meal can be ordered online from several health food stores or purchased at a real health food grocery store (GNC does not carry it )

If you are not going to take the time to mix it just right do your tegu a favor and do NOT feed this or any other turkey . I took the recipe off our web page due to the high amount of emails I was getting from people who saw it and thought that they could just mix turkey anyway they wanted and their lizards would be fine . They fed the turkey without mixing it right and ended up with babies and juveniles that had severe calcium imbalances . It is a lot easier and MUCH safer to feed frozen thawed rodents as they are a complete meal and contain every the tegu needs to grow properly .
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Stella St.Pierre
www.bluetegu.com

It is a lot easier and MUCH safer to feed frozen thawed rodents as they are a complete meal and contain every the tegu needs to grow properly. so would you still dust them with a calcium replacement? thanks, justin

Any rodent hopper size or larger already has a good mineral/vitamin balance (because of the bones and organs ) and does not need any calcium added to it . The better quality diet the rodents get the more nutritious they will be.

Pinkies when taken directly from their mothers and either fed right away or frozen right away have a belly full of milk and have plenty of calcium . If you are not sure how long your pinkies have sat around away from their mother before feeding /freezing you should dust them with calcium .Tegus will grow much faster on a diet of well fed dusted crickets than they will on pinkies.
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Stella St.Pierre
www.bluetegu.com

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