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02-Jul-08, 07:59 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: toowoomba Age/Gender: 24  | | | what to feed blue tounges
hi, just after some ideas as to what to mix up for my blue tounges to eat and are you meant to spray them with water like beardies?
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02-Jul-08, 08:33 PM
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02-Jul-08, 08:47 PM
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Blue Tounges always like banana, or mince.
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02-Jul-08, 08:54 PM
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I feed mine a mixture of carrot and sweet potato, grated then chopped finely, mixed with bok choy finely chopped, broccoli tips and unprocessed bran. I use 2 thirds this mix with 1 third whiskers beef mince. And they just love snails when I get out and find them some. I have a dish of water in with them and they seem to drink from it everyday, they really like their water.
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02-Jul-08, 09:00 PM
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They will eat all sorts of things. I give ours fruit, veggies, Bearded Dragon Pellets, and the mix that I make up for our turtles based on kangaroo mince and feeder roaches with a bunch of other stuff including veggies, fish, calcium and Herp-t-vite.
For me I try and provide a variety. Feeding a diet of just mince or just fruit would be bad. The Bearded Dragon Food is probably pretty balanced but I would still supplement with other bits and pieces.
Don't forget to go and grab some garden snails when it rains (NO SNAIL BAIT) as they love these - shells and all.
Ours go ape over eggs from feral birds such as Mina birds. A crushed hard boiled hens egg, including shell is a reasonable substitute treat!
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02-Jul-08, 09:01 PM
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I feed mine a mix similiar to the one that Ripley uses and I also hand feed her some large crickets every couple of days. Also, you can feed them cat and dog food, but only use the meat varieties. My girl loves banana and also I give her half a raw egg once a week which she also loves.
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02-Jul-08, 09:09 PM
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Oh I've finally delved into the blue tongue scene after years in the snake one  I'm picking up a couple of Easterns this weekend The kids will love em hehehe (good reading by the way, I'm not overly familiar in keeping things with legs )
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04-Jul-08, 12:26 PM
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dont they eat snails too....?
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04-Jul-08, 12:26 PM
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i use mostly pal 5 kinds of meat or chum 3 kinds of meat for my tiliquas and shinglebacks,i dont reccomend mince,unless its a not fatty type,ive used tinned dogfood for up to 13 years with some of my animals and havnt had any health problems,my stumpys are indoors year round and breed great ,producing healthy bubs,which ive hung onto and they have grown into healthy young adults,im not saying my ways the best,but it suits me and my animals so if it aint broke,dont fix it,variety is also good ,and if you are going to use vegies ect,use many different types,add protein and supplements to,blueys are omnivourus so accept a huge variety of foods,one of the pluses of keeping them.
bluetongueskinks.net
seikereptilestiliquaforum
2 sites that have great info on bluetongues
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04-Jul-08, 12:28 PM
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oh no u dont need to spray bluetoingues to give them water,they like drinking out of a bowl,they lap it up like a dog does,and drink copious amounts to
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04-Jul-08, 12:29 PM
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so no snails?
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04-Jul-08, 12:39 PM
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they love snails to,i live around market gardens,they use snail poisons so im not risking feeding snails to my bblueys,im paranoid about possable poison snails,lol,mind u theres a few wild eastern blueys on out property that often eat snails in the rock piles where they live so its probably safe.
the thing with bluetongues is they accept so many different foods,from tiny beatles,lots of vegetation up to rodents and even road kill,a few times ive happened across easterns and blotcheds even death shaking dried up dog pooh,but im not gunna use that in captivity,lol
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