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    Help! Recurring Prolapse?

    My yearling had her second anal prolapse in two months last night, and it was a really bad one- the first was too. After treating it with a cool sugar water bath and letting her sleep on a bed of damp clean paper towels overnight it reduced and disappeared on its own just like last time. The vet...
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    Ive I've been in the habit of waking her up the last few days, seeing if she'll eat (usually she will) and then she suns herself and wanders for a while. Taking her outside to soak up the sun is probably a good idea, I'll definitely be trying that out and moving her enclosure to somewhere I can...
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    My AC sits between 70-74 throughout a 24 hour period, the cool side hits low seventies at night but has a gradient of 80-110 during the day
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    Absolutely, I actually just got and put together a sub-adult 4x2x2 enclosure for when she's big enough to move into it- which will be very soon after she emerges and starts eating again. I'll be building an 8x4x4 enclosure when she's large enough for it.
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    Any recommendations on how to jack up the temp? She's in a mostly-glass baby enclosure that gets both natural and simulated uvb light with a large heat pad (always on obv) and basking lamp (on twelve hours a day) with a mid-high seventies on the cool side where her humid hide is and the high 90s...
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    will do! Thank you for the tip. Definitely been missing my girl because she's been hibernating longer than she's been awake since I got her last august
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    Thank you, I definitely don't want her to die because she's stubborn. Once it hits seven months to the day I'm going to remove her hide for a bit and see if she'll eat/get up/sun and such, with luck. It's in the high seventies/low eighties on the cool side and the high 90s/low hundreds in the...
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    I tried to discourage hibernation as I was worried about her being too small to survive it, so at no point have the parameters changed during the entirety of the hibernation
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    Tegu still in hibernation- anything I can do?

    My juvie argentine red tegu started to go down for hibernation in mid december despite no change in temps/light/humidity, most of the time refusing food before she went down for real. It's been about seven months, and I check on her every few weeks- just peeking into the hide- and the upping of...
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    Biding the time for hibernating tegus

    My girl has been asleep for over five months now; she's young, so I check in on her every few weeks (just take a peek to make sure she's breathing) but its just agony waiting. I know they can hibernate up to seven months, I tried to discourage it at the beginning but she was determined to go...
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    Easing a Tegu out of Hibernation?

    My juvenile Argentine red tegu has been in hibernation since December 14th and has come out every so often to eat or sunbathe, I'm meaning for a few hours every few weeks. I recently cleaned and reorganized the tank after a move, and it went right back to bed after poking around. The temperature...
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    Hello!

    Hello! I've been meaning to join for some time, as a new Tegu owner. I've had my juvenile argentine red tegu Merlot since late August and I love her to death. I also have a two-year-old blue tongue skink named Ludo
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