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    Default reptiles i can keep with my tegu?

    my tegu has a weird sleeping schedule so a lot of people ask me why i have an empty tank in my room even thought he's just asleep. are there any other (affordable) lizards that i can keep with my tegu that will be awake most of the day? is it even possible to keep another lizard with a tegu?
    any help is greatly appreciated

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    I wouldn't keep anything other than another equally sized Tegu, not only because of stress on both the animals but it might also become dinner.
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    I second that. It's generally not advised to keep various species together unless you have a specific reason for doing so (zoos), or an adequate enclosure. But still, other reptiles end up on the menu.
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    And I third all of that.
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    It's not even advisable to keep other tegus in the same tank unless they're big enough. I think if you had a large enough lizard like a monitor or something they might not think of each other as food, but competition and get territorial and aggressive. Overall, co-habitation = not a good plan
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    But even so, monitors and tegus can have different habitat requirements.
    Laura R (FL)
    1.0.0 Colombian Tegu
    1.4.0 Argentine B&W Tegu
    1.2.0 Red Tegu
    1.2.0 B/WxRed Tegu
    1.0.0 Green Ameiva (yet another teiid)
    7 other lizards
    1 little gator
    3 FL box turtle
    1 Sulcata tortoise
    16 snakes
    5 fuzzy pets
    4 little frogs
    a bunch of creepy bugs
    and a partridge in a pear tree

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    Most monitors have 130+ degree asking spot way to hot for a tegu.
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    Sorry, I was just using Monitors as an example because of their comparable size.
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    I used to work in a reptile farm, and I've seen many ''mix'' that we're most of the time unsuitable for two reptile.
    I've seen mix like :
    -Iguana and boa constrictor (strangely, all of them we're sleeping together and never seen any attack between each other)
    -Greek tortoise with peach throat monitor
    -Leopard tortoise with ball python
    -Sulcata/greek/redfoot tortoise kept together in the same enclosure outside
    -Red tegu with redfoot tortoise
    -Cornsnake with box turtle (turn out to be horrible, some of those snake had their tail cut by the box turtle)
    -Nile/savannah/blackthroat monitor keep together (trouble with feeding agression)
    -burmese python and retic python (never seen any trouble with that)
    -Caiman with boa constrictor (surprisely, no injury, noted that the boa were in the high altitude section of the cage)
    -Sudan plated with beardie
    -Water monitor with asian turtle (no problem together but still)

    However, in my opinion, mixing different species is just a bad idea, especially in small enclosure.
    In other word, don't do it.
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    Safest thing to do is even if two of the same species and same size herps, have separate tanks, just in case they don't get along.
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