Recently my savannah monitor, Spencer, passed away. Before wanting a savannah monitor, I've always loved tegus. A couple of days ago, I acquired my first tegu.
He's about 3-5 months old as my guess. Probably about a foot and a half, to two feet. He's tame, but getting him out of the enclosure sometimes is a hassle. He'll sort of hiss and jump out of your hands. We've named him Isaac.
He's currently in a 2x1 foot tank, reason being is that we're living temporarily at my mom's house. Once we're going to go to my dad's house, we're building him a 6x2 enclosure. I want to put earth in there as a substrate if that's fine, and have a shallow water dish. Also have a basking lamp in there for him, and a hide. If anyone could post pictures of their indoor enclosures that would be great.
Also for food, I've been feeding him a mixture so far of lettuce, watermelon, chicken, and egg. I've also tried cucumber once. He hasn't touched anything other than egg and chicken so far..two days ago, however, he swallowed a piece of wood chip substrate with his food and since then he hasn't eaten. I'm not sure if it's because he's gotten such a large first meal and maybe hasn't been properly fed at the store..how regularly should they be eating? And how big of a meal?
Any tips overall would be appreciated.
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