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Recent content by Merlot

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    Substrate question

    You’ll probably want to mix it up anyways simply do to cost and volume you’ll be using for your Gu. Is your Gu still small and you’re using this right now? Look into a mixture of play sand/top soil mix with some cypress mulch and sphagnum moss in it
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    cage

    I would like to know which heat bulbs and UV to use for a grow tent as well. Currently setting mine up. Little overwhelmed on the lighting situation and I gotta my tegu out of his current enclosure ASAP
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    Sketchy's new enclosure!!

    Lol how in the heck do you boil them large pieces? Big ol storage bin and toss it all in and get a bunch of pots boiling and toss it in?
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    Sketchy's new enclosure!!

    What kind of wood was used in the tent?
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    Sketchy's new enclosure!!

    Did you do any treatment to the wood that leads up to the basking area for mold and etc..? Or what kind of wood? Because I am seriously intimidated for whatever reason to do my grow tent build. Wanna get it perfect. Did you build a little base and a tarp over here it before putting down the...
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    Blue Tegus butt hangs out when pooping.

    Please have your vet do a fecal sample- my Gu had this issue with its rectum pro lapsing and it ended up being parasites and they gave him medicine and cleared it all up
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    Tegu with a forked tail!

    Maybe inbreeding defect? But the tail explanation above sounds pretty legit
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    I need guidance with my tegu!

    Betadine helped a lot with mine, I was probably a little more liberal with it. When in the tub I kind poured it along tail pretty liberally then made the bath the tea color to your type of description. He instinctively raised it eyes and nose above the water and just chilled out in a nice...
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    Comment by 'Merlot' in media 'The girls!'

    Awee,
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    Comment by 'Merlot' in media 'Good morning'

    I was gonna also ask the same. And she’s a beauty
  11. M

    Help! (aggressive and wobbly)

    I totally thought calcium deficiency for sure/ and or not proper lighting to process it effectively
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    Help! (aggressive and wobbly)

    Do you give him all the proper lighting, heat and UVA/B, have enough Supplements like calcium? How do his legs and toes look. Crooked or wierd? Not a pro, but hopefully not MBD but he’s still young
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    Tegu at the vet for prolapse

    Thank you all for the nice words! I’m just happy he’s thriving, now I need to finish his enclosure already to get him real happy lol.
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    Tegu at the vet for prolapse

    took another fecal sample 2 weeks after the last dose of meds and NO MORE WORMS!!! Guys please, if your tegu gets a prolapse, and you fix it yourself like it did and they seem fine. Get a fecal sample right away to the vet. 50 freaking dollars I could’ve solved this issue of chronic prolapse...
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    Maybe hotter to 125+ for a juvi and definitely wake up your gu gently. When they bury themselves if you can gently and successfully wake them up several times, it’s a god bonding experience. They may huff and puff and be aggressive at first, but then they start to trust you. Mine is just a...
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