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    Question Tegu growth rate question

    I have a couple of questions I haven't found answers to. The first is about growth rate. I have owned my Red, Bambi, for a month or a little more. What growth rate have you all experienced. Bambi seems to look as though she grows every day noticabley. When I got her/him she was a little over 16" and likely closer to 18". She is at least 20" now even though she is a picky eater.

    The second question is about age/growth. At what age do they stop growing and can be recognized as an adult?

    Thanks once again for your help!
    Dana

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    I can't answer your first question very well since it has been a while since my adults were smaller. But it does seem that they grow like weeds at certain points!

    I would think that 2yo is consider adult length with some filling out occuring until 3yo. Of course, everything with reptiles is variable with diet, environment, and hibernation. I had a red come to me that was 3yo, but heavily neglected in his early years. In the next year he grew and filled out quite a bit with a proper diet, sunshine, and exercise.
    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
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    1 Sulcata tortoise
    16 snakes
    5 fuzzy pets
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    and a partridge in a pear tree

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    I answered my own question. Last night when I went to bed, Bambi was 20" long and this morning when he got up and out of his burrow, lo and behold he was 5 feet long

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