Thank you for all the responses, this board has been indispensable in caring for my Tegu. Unfortunately with the choatic future of my life in the next few years I have decided to find her a better...
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Thank you for all the responses, this board has been indispensable in caring for my Tegu. Unfortunately with the choatic future of my life in the next few years I have decided to find her a better...
I have a humidifier in the room to keep it humid
THe room is 80-85 degrees all the time and she has a basking light that is 105-110 in a spot
SHe spends half her day baskng and half...
I have come to an impass with my tegu. She is 11 months old now and getting quite big. I love her to death but she destroys everything in her cage and when she poops she drags herself through it if I...
Thanks for the reply, I have the light on a timer but not her basking light so she may be confused I'll take your advice and shift the times, thanks a lot!
Hello, I have a question if it's possible to shift the hours my tegu is active.
RIght now she wakes up around midnight and goes to bed around 9-10 AM
and the problem is she keeps me awake...
Thank you for all the great responses, she took 6 days but pooped a bit yesterday.
She isn't struggling or constipated it seems but is taking her sweet *** time and still eating pretty well so...
Sorry for so many threads, but I am a 1st time pet owner and I love my tegu and I can get panicky.
She is 8 months old
She is eating fine (no fruit though) but going back to sleep very soon...
Just to update, she ate some chicken gibblets today so I think she's ok, she went right back to bed though.
I'm also not sure of the signs she may be getting ready to Hibernate, I mean it is already almost February and she still gets up everyday and usually stays awake 8-10 hours .
WOuld I need to...
Thanks for the responses
SOrry I meant to say I feed her FUzzies, I keep screwing that up. Uvb light is brand new and covers the flexarium she live in.
temperature is good very warm.
I guess i should also ask how often I should be feeding an 8month old tegu, I was feeding her everyday but should I be slowing down her feedings?
My 8 month old Tegu has stopped eating fruit (Blueberries, Strawberries, Cantaloupe, Papaya) and is getting less and less interested in ground turkey and other things.
She is still eating frozen...
thank you for the great useful responses!
I do believe she is just being confused by my hand, she can be very still in my arms after she has eaten but I seem to trigger her instinct easily with my...
I have her food in her flexarium before she awakes, and she always leaves leftovers, and I wash my hands before handling her.
We had another incident tonight, she was just laying on my arm, and...
Yes he does he has 40 years in fact so I'm told. I feed her fruit and fuzzies 3-4 times a week mixed with crickets the other days, I'm also trying to find a substitute for the crickets cause the mess...
My vet suggested this as suitable Tegu food.
I was under the assumption that cat food was too fatty, but is it possible that some specific special brand might be suitable or is this guy just crazy...
Thank you for the great responses!
I will answer these questions as detailed as possible to cover as much as can touch the other questions in the thread too.
I place a dish of food, in her...
Hello I'm new to the site and I have a beautiful 4 month old female *I think* B&W Argentine tegu name bubbles.
She began climbing onto my hand very young and generally would ignore it when she...