Things You'll Need
- Food processor
- 1/2 cup collard greens
- 1/2 cup mustard greens
- 1/2 cup green beans
- 1 acorn or butternut squash
- Two small parsnips
- Ice cube trays
- Plastic wrap
- Various fruits
- Pinkie mice
- Crickets
- Mealworms
- Reptile vitamin supplement
Instructions
Combine vegetables and leafy greens in a food processor and shred the ingredients together. This creates a fine mixture of healthy greens that should compose 60 percent of a blue-tongued skinks diet.
Place the shredded vegetables into ice cube trays and cover with plastic wrap.
Store the shredded vegetables in the freezer to use at your convenience.
Offer several thawed vegetable cubes to blue-tongued skinks three to four times each week.
Supplement the vegetable foods with fruits once or twice each week. Blue-tongued skinks readily feed on a wide variety of fruits including bananas, cherries, blueberries, nectarines and strawberries. Feed fruits separately from vegetables.
Feed blue-tongued skinks as many mealworms and crickets as they will eat twice each week. Dust the insects with a reptile vitamin supplement to ensure that they receive enough calcium in their diet to prevent bone diseases problems. You can substitute small pinkie mice for crickets every other week, but they should be fed sparingly due to their low nutritious value.