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OK...so I've read a handful of posts by folks who are acquiring import tegus and the general reply is generally something like:
Good luck with your new 'gu-- You should take him/her to the vet because he/she probably has internal parasites...etc...
There was also a post a LOOOOOONG time back about all of the color/pattern varieties that have been observed in the wild that we don't really see in captive collections.
My question is this:
Are the import tegus "wild" OR are they farmed/bred/etc and exported to the States?
If they're "wild" and actually caught and sent to the States, it seems like a helluva great opportunity to open up and diversify the tegu gene pool. Something tells me that if it was the case that the tegus were actually caught and shipped that we'd be seeing a lot more diversity by now...or??? Am I missing something (I'm sure I am--I ALWAYS am)????
Thanks for reading this far...
Good luck with your new 'gu-- You should take him/her to the vet because he/she probably has internal parasites...etc...
There was also a post a LOOOOOONG time back about all of the color/pattern varieties that have been observed in the wild that we don't really see in captive collections.
My question is this:
Are the import tegus "wild" OR are they farmed/bred/etc and exported to the States?
If they're "wild" and actually caught and sent to the States, it seems like a helluva great opportunity to open up and diversify the tegu gene pool. Something tells me that if it was the case that the tegus were actually caught and shipped that we'd be seeing a lot more diversity by now...or??? Am I missing something (I'm sure I am--I ALWAYS am)????
Thanks for reading this far...