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    New skinny tegu

    Re: RE: New skinny tegu Thank you :-) Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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    Baby crickets in cage?

    Thanks everyone yes there crickets or were crickets. I changed all the bedding. I also hate crickets but that's all my tegu would eat but now he eats everything so no more crickets Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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    Baby crickets in cage?

    So I just went to feed my tegu and seen that there are a bunch of baby crickets in the enclosure. Is this bad? Should I remove all the substrate and put in new? There smaller then pin head crickets Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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    Will only eat crickets

    Hi everyone Ive had a red tegu for a little over a month and a half now and I can not get him to eat anything besides crickets. I've tried scrambled eggs (ate it once),ground turkey,superworms,pinky mince live and frozen,chicken liver (ate it once) he only will eat crickets. I let him go a...
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    Reptile Ornaments

    Wow great job!!! Any spotted or wood turtles?
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    What you'd someday want in your collection

    (Geckos) Cat Gecko awesome Tibetan Frog Eyed Spider gecko (Agamura persica) (Snakes) Thamnophis atratus atratus - Santa Cruz Gartersnake Western Hognose Albino Redtail boa Woma Black head python (Frogs/Toads) Mozambique Rain Frogs - Breviceps mossambicus Smooth sided toad (Lizards) Spiny...
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    New Red Tegu

    I'm so happy with my new red tegu Charmander. I've only had him for two days but he is awesome. So far he's a great eater and is very friendly. Here's some pictures. His first time outside soaking up the sun [attachment=4372] [attachment=4373] [attachment=4374] Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using...
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    New skinny tegu

    Thank you everyone for your kind words and all the info you's have been a great help. I picked up my new baby today Charmander #2 lol He looks so much more healthier then the last one and has already ate and drank. He's a lot different then the last one he's walking all over his cage and licking...
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    Tegu fertility/hibernation?

    Hi everyone I'm very new to tegu keeping and don't have one right now do to buying a sick Red tegu and it dieing 4 days later. But I've caught the tegu keeping bug and I'm going to buy a new (not sick) red tegu next week and want to one day in the distant future breed my tegu but I don't know if...
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    New skinny tegu

    Re: RE: New skinny tegu Thank you :-) I did sanitize the cage & the hides and stuff in watered down bleach and then let it bake in the sun for a couple hours + I baked the ecoearth in the over at 350* for 45 minutes. Does this sound ok? I really hope so I don't want my new little red tegu...
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    New skinny tegu

    Thanks you. I knew going into buying him that he was very sick. He wasn't for sale but i talked to them and got him for $100 I thought I could save him since they where not putting the time into saving him but i was wrong. Not there fault since I knew what I was getting into Sent from my HTC...
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    New skinny tegu

    Bad news Charmander sadly did not make it :-( but the store I got him from is giving me a deal on a new red tegu ($115) and it will he 100% healthy. I did know before I purchased him he was is rough shape but i really thought with some work and love he would pull trough :'( Sent from my HTC...
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    New skinny tegu

    Thank you for your help I will switch to a heat bulb also I do have a uva/uvb bulb Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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    New skinny tegu

    He doesn't have a basking spot there is heat cable under 1/3 of the enclosure and it reads between 103-107* on the hot side/hide that's where he spends all of time. Would a heat lamp be better? Thanks for all the help everyone. I'm a 1st time tegu owner and to start off with a...
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    New skinny tegu

    Got some what I feel is bad news Charmander pooped out the pinkies and they were only half digested? Could this just be to much protein at once since he hasn't ate in a long time? Also does the picture of the cage I'm keeping him in look ok because this is my 1st tegu and im trying to get...
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