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Thread: How interactive and playful are Argentine black and white tegu's

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    Default How interactive and playful are Argentine black and white tegu's

    Hey, I heard that you could get blue tongued skinks to sit on your shoulder and sit on your lap whilst watching movies etc are just generally really sociable animals. I'd prefer to get a tegu though so I was wondering if they are a bit like this and what kind of games you can play with them, with balls etc. Do you have any tips if I were to buy a baby tegu? Cheers in advance

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    Hi dusse123. Welcome to our Tegu forum family. I DO NOT recommend getting one from Bobby Hill ( Varnyard.com ). He has been scamming alot of people ( including me ). Ty is a great breeder but he is out of Tegus. We have been owning many lizards over the years but the Tegus are by far our favorite ones.

    Here are some videos of one of our Tegus. So you can see how social they can be.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yVQEI9y8Iw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrE0Xo6iXm0&feature=plcp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0IEnFkgUA&feature=plcp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNsF6MW6j0&feature=plcp

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3xADhIa5dw&feature=plcp

    Some places you can check out for Tegus for sale:

    http://www.teguterra.com/

    http://www.faunaclassified.com/forum...play.php?f=489

    http://market.kingsnake.com/index.php?cat=115
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    How much do you usually spend on your tegu etc per week, including food, supplements etc?

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    To be honest with you it's hard to tell. Because we have five Tegus, a black throat monitor, a bearded dragon and a leopard gecko. So I bulk buy/order things. The meat I put into a small chest freezer we have in the reptile room. If you want to save some money I recommend bulk ordering.

    Rodents:

    http://www.rodentpro.com/

    This is a video I made of their products I got:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhcqfsUNRA

    Crickets/worms:

    http://www.ghann.com/

    Roaches:

    http://www.theroachranch.com/
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    Ok, I really want one but the ongoing costs for such a large lizard is probably quite high, do you know how the amount they eat compares to a bts?

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    I don't know how much a bts eats. When they are babies they eat almost every day but just a smaller amounts. When they are older they usually don't eat every day but when they do then it's big amounts. Some Tegus also hibernate for months. We have two Tegus who hibernate every year from about October to March/April. When they hibernate they don't eat at all. Some of the other Tegus slow down on eating in the winter time and don't want to eat as much. One of them acts normal ( is very active and eats alot ).
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    If you start with a baby the cost is fairly minimal if you grow your own roaches and shop for lean meat on sale. Once it is larger however, it is a whole other thing.
    Captain Jack, who is about 14 months old now will eat 6 oz of chicken chunks, a table spoon or so of liver, a couple of chicken gizzards and an third of a chicken wing for calcium or ground egg shells. About once or twice a week he gets scrambled eggs and a couple of frozen mice. Like Sam said bulk is the key especially when buying frozen mice. They are a fraction of what pet stores sell them for. I look for boneless chicken on sale for less than $2.00 per pound and cut it into chunks. I also have ground it in a food processor myself when Jack was younger. I wasn't a big fan of ground turkey that you can buy in the meat department as more often than not, it is a 85/15 blend, (lean meat/fat) and the fat is usually added beef fat which helps turkey burgers hold together better. Lean hamburger is the same lean/fat ratio. I also feed whole shrimp when I can get them cheap and whole fish.
    I also give my guys treats like leftover roast, steak, chicken and fish.

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