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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    They only have very small ones normally. I modified mine with a large piece of thick vinyl so I could see in better.
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    From passive to active taming?

    I have mixed feelings about 'active' handling like forced holding. Honestly all you're doing there is teaching them 'learned helplessness'. Check out videos on how they train zoo animals. Lots of target training and clicker training stuff If they can train alligators and lions to accept...
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    Tegu can't be handled at all?

    So I figured I'd give an update. She finally stopped actively trying to attack me when I put my hands in her cage! She's still wary, but no more bites which is good. I sit by her cage each night and just read and talk to her. I don't force handling and I can't pick her up yet but I can have my...
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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    Good question! I did ask my dad, and he said it was fine, since it has such a large footprint. In this case the weight is distributed over 32 sq ft, vs 10 sq ft for that size aquarium. Think of it more like a waterbed. It's also right up against the outside wall of the house, so there's more...
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    Pacing?

    Yup! There are two windows in the room and I leave the blinds open.
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    Pacing?

    Since my girl came out of her odd summer brumation, every night around 6 she starts pacing her enclosure really restlessly. She'll do this for hours, even until after lights out. I let her out into the room and just just keeps pacing and trying to climb things. She's barely interested in food...
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    Grow Tent Ventilation

    If it's anything like the one I bought, they come with vents built in. Opening the tent once or twice a day to feed/water will also help.
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    Buried for days - brumating in summer?

    Heeey, she's back! Out of curiosity, I decided to simulate a rain storm. I misted several jugs worth of water into the enclosure, and sure enough, later in the day she came out. I got the idea from hearing that it's also the dry season when they brumate, so maybe rain and water levels have...
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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    This would be a view from inside. Basically the vinyl completely overlaps the entire door to the outside edges. I sewed once around the outside edge, and again around the inside edge. The stitching isn't super tight, maybe an inch between stitches, but I use the heaviest duty thread I can find...
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    Reptilinks

    My tegu loves them. The beardie and skink, not as much. My redfooted tortoise also loves them, but she will eat anything too slow to escape :P
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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    I bought some bags of leaves and other biodegradables from different sites, but if you don't use any sort of pesticides in your yard you can collect there, yeah. Stuff like oak leaves, maple, magnolia... There are guides around for what sorts of leaves are safe and how to treat them. (Some...
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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    Okay I got a photo. As you can see it's a bit juryrigged... I'm eventually going to redo it, lol. The bars are customizable! You can slide them around if you need. And the tents tend to have vents on all the sides, so that hasn't been an issue. Some of the round vents are handy for running...
  13. Lighting setup

    Lighting setup

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    Grow tent enclosure - with progress photos!

    Oh oof, I totally forgot! I'll give myself a reminder to do it tonight or tomorrow. (It's really nothing special at the moment though, just a bunch of light domes suspended from the bars across the top with chain) I did go bioactive and it is amazing. Mostly it was a lot of native isopods that...
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    Beginner

    Also keep in mind many teens end up going off to college, so it becomes the parent's responsibility to look after the pet in the meantime.
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