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    wow some people...

    american alligators should not eat feeder goldfish since they are incredibly high in heavy metals and will stunt your gator in a health threatening way. alligators need to eat hardly anything. a 10 foot alligator only needs to eat 12 pounds of food in a year and most of what they eat and digest...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    Wow that is a little bit frightening! Are any of you familiar with the effects that mycoplasm has on T. marianae and T. rufescens? I read somewhere that they can get it. Is it deadly to them? or is the tegu a host for it to plague something else like in the G. sulcata tortoises?
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    Despite my efforts and perhaps due to them My female red tegu passed away this evening. I believe it is due to an impacted gut and added stress from the male... Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I am in disbelief at how fast this all happened.
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    So, I rolled my fingers down her stomach from Anterior pectoral girdle towards the vent using gentle wavelike motions (This is a love novel. Not like that!~GROSS~) Out of the water over the sink. I put her back in warm water came back 10 minutes later to find some pee and a Whispee pooh. She...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    By the way I cannot express my thanks enough to the ample amount of quick reply's! My whole life I've anticipated owning tegu's and monitors. I vowed to do it to the best of my knowledge and to never restrain them if possible. I have 3 tegu's each were taken from living conditions that I...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    Not exactly sure what you mean by that? Good news is that i came home from class to find her wading in her artificial ocean. aka the wash tub that is filled with water that sits within her sand filled kiddie pool under a 125 watt bulb she is breathing more regularly and does not as distressed...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    she usually avoids her food if i put cod liver oil on it, but i could just turkey baste it into her mouth i suppose...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    They have been living together since october (free roaming my room) sleeping in my closet and I have a kiddie pool with beach sand and a soak tub with a heat light over it in the middle of my room for them to bask... but the male did not try to mount her until 2-3 weeks ago no longer. and she...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    it is unlikely that she ate substrate while feeding. but it is possbile that she ate something foreign while free roaming my bedroom... I feed them directly from 18 inch forceps. Yes i looked in her mouth there is no blockages.
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    She did not poop or pee. She seems like she could be impacted, when i removed her from the tub her belly was really firm, I usually feed her rats that my snakes don't eat but i have 100 hairless mice i got specifically for her for when she is gravid. but she is not for eating right now... Can...
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    female is acting weird! trying to lay on her back??

    She has been spending a lot more time in the basking spot since last night then normal and is quite lethargic today. She keeps shifting her weight around, rolling onto her sides and even her back! I don't know exactly why she is behaving that way, but I gave her a nice bath/drink. she is...
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