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i usaully feed mice to my tegus but how are goldfish, are they ok to feed em cuz they love chasing food in the water in a big tub, they swim after it grab it go where its shallow and go for something else. i do this with mice crickets and some other stuff. i was wondering if i could do goldfish for a challenge for them
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i own
1 bearded dragon-Rocko
1 paraguay red tegu-Badger
1 argintine black and white tegu-Ziggy
coming soon-1 blue tonged skink

I've let my tegu chase them around, and they are a bigger challenge because they are fast in the water. You can also gut load them like crickets, goldfish will eat almost anything you put in their water. And since they are all bones and scales, they are a higher source of calcium than crickets, probably about the same as mice. Fun to watch!
-Beth

I had a friend who lost two of his savannah monitors, which were undoubtedly captive bred by another friend from parasites in goldfish, they are dirty and usually contain worms. Even gut loaded they have nowhere near the nutritional value as rodents. If gut loaded and dusted they might come close to a couple of roaches or crickets. If watching your tegu chase goldfish is worth their health to you, go for it, but im sure its not. stick to the basicks, and the "known to be good" food.
1.1 banded white throat monitors
2.1 argus/flavi crosses monitors
1.0 blackthroat monitor
0.1 savannah monitor
1.1 argentine b/w tegus
1.1 bearded dragons
0.0.1 dumerils boa
1.0 ball python het for albino
good luck
scott

scott is absolutely right. DO NOT FEED TEGUS GOLDFISH.
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i "third" this sentiment.
i lost a nile to goldfish.
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if nothing else, i at least amuse myself!

feed goldfish to oscars and turtles, not to lizards, especially lizards of such value and pure awesomeness, want to watch something cool, givem pinkies everyonce and awhile and watch em go nuts, also hissing roaches etc.