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    Default Tegu's Tail looks odd... Suggestions?

    Hello everyone!

    I've been trying to figure out what is wrong with my gu's tail it's hard to explain what it looks like but i will provide a picture. So recently my little guy, Coby has been shedding close to once a month now he's becoming quite large had to upgrade his humid hide to a much larger one.
    His tail is strait till about the last 3-4 inches then it looks almost like it has been broken in a few spots, i lightly touch it and there is no response from Coby it feels bumpy, the feeling is like running your finger down a rope with knots in it if that makes sense. anyhow
    i'll do a quick rundown of diet and setup, Ground turky/chicken 0.5 tablespoon calcium to 1 pound meat as a staple, 1 egg every other week, i feed him fruits that he will accept. temps are 110-115 basking 80-85 ambient, Uvb basking spot with an 5.0 26 watt uvb bulb on "cold side of tank" he's enclosed in a 6x3x3 terrarium. He seems to be in good health, but his tail is something that has been on my mind for a while now.

    he's about 20 inches from snout to tail, his hatch date is july 17 (my birthday) 2012.
    hopfully i can get some answers, the picture below of his tail is the best i could do but it looks a bit worse in person.

    Thanks, Buddha.
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    Default Re: Tegu's Tail looks odd... Suggestions?

    Just a kink maybe

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    I'm just hopping this isn't a early warning sign of mbd, guess i'll up his calcium intake and add another uvb bulb just for good measure, hope that as he grows it goes away.

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    Default Re: Tegu's Tail looks odd... Suggestions?

    Wats his lighting humidity and wat do u feed him

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    Ground chicken mostly, i tried mixing turky and chicken but he prefers the chicken alone, half a tablespoon of calcium per 1 pound, i feed him eggs and what ever fruit he will eat (mostly grapes (seedless) and a bit of banana here and there), i recently started adding alittle gatorade to his water dish i've heard that brings his electrolytes up quite a lot. humitity is hard to keep in the enclosuer but around 65-70 for the most part. have a 160 powersun, a 100 watt basking lamp on the hot side (keeps his basking spot around 110) and a 5.0 uvb 26 watt bulb on the "cool side" ambient 85ish.

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    Default Re: Tegu's Tail looks odd... Suggestions?

    110 basking is good but try to get it higher also go for whole prey food or order ground meat wit bones and organs from haretoday.com

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    i havn't been able to get him to accept whole prey i'll see if haretoday ships to canada

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    i could actully just go down to a butcher and see about picking some up might be cheaper that way

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    Default Re: Tegu's Tail looks odd... Suggestions?

    That's wat I do I go to the live ooultry place and get my chicken and duck

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