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I posted below about sheading and diet can be a facter in the sheading. My new tegus about 17" will only eat crickets I'v tryed some worms meal, butter, wax, silk worms and a pinky and he looks at you like thats not what I eat wheres my crickets.I dust the crickets ones every day but is he getting the what he needs to be healthly... thank you foe all your help kate

Don't worry about it while he is so young. As long as he is getting enough to eat, crickets will be fine. Just make sure they are supplimented everytime with a good calcium with D3 and use some vitamins about once every other week. They can be real cricket eating machines when they are young! Fun to watch too! Might try some small balls of ground turkey. Sometimes you can sneek fruit in the Turkey balls. He will eventually want the meat. Then I highly suggest rodents. He will be too fat and big to be chasin them itty bitty crickets! King of like Godzilla and Tokyo, he wanted nothing to do with the little screaming people, he wanted to smash some buildings!
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Try a hopper, nothing gets a tegu eating like a moving target.
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