T. roborowskii and fruit

[danscantle]

Anyone ever fed their Teratoscincus fruit?

I was feeding my fruit eaters tonight and my girlfriend asked me to give some to the Teratoscincus. I told her there was no chance of them eating it, but I did it anyway. They sucked it down faster than the Rhacodactylus chahoua could.

Has anyone ever seen this with their captives?

 

[Brian]

Yes I have. I posted about this before on another forum. Mine have ate papaya, mango, licked at rasberry, and smashed apple/pear. I probably forgot some. Glad I found someone else to confirm this.

What did you use?

Apparently they eat berries in the wild. At least I read that. I can give you the site if you want, but that's basically the extant of the info on berry eating.

 

[danscantle]

Thanks Brian - I e-mailed the man whose collected more Teratoscincus than anyone else and asked him about this. He said he sometimes found them climbing bushes and thought they might have been eating the berries growing on the bushes.

I fed mine a papaya/mango/honey mixture.

 

[Brian]

Mine don't seem to like blueberries or blackberries that much. They did sample huckleberries which grow native here though. Now that I think of it. I was honestly a bit worried about the high phosporus content while the female was laying eggs.

 

[LivingScales]

I do believe they do feed on fruit too. I don't feed them fruit personally, bit I remember when I got my T. roborowski, the feces in the container do contain many seeds. My roborowski came directly to me from the wild.