Another tegu share

[Rhetoric]

Guru, hes a year old. I'm not sure if its intentional or not but recently hes been picking out the berries in his food and eating them first lol.

^^ Eggs and blueberries w/ vitamins and calcium

Gary, hes 2 years old & the smallest of the 3

Rango, he is 2 years old as well. He's only got 2 front toes! He's the most "cudly" out of the tegus. Guru and Gary are more of explorers, Rango will take naps on my lap.

Gary and Rango

For those who didn't see Gary and Rango in April, heres a video of them the day I got 'em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI-gSASGdTY&feature=channel_video_title

Here is the rock I feed Guru on since hes fed inside the enclosure.

Thanks for looking!

 

[turtlepunk]

awesome pics!!! love the video! i was wondering what happened to your youtube account!! is this your new one?

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

Nice,.. in the second to last pic with Gary and Rango,.. if only they both flicked their tongue and you got a 2 for 1 .

 

[Rhetoric]

awesome pics!!! love the video! i was wondering what happened to your youtube account!! is this your new one?

Yeah I deleted the old account and my little cousin kept asking where my lizards went so I made another

 

[gcd312]

Did they really grow THAT much since April?? WOW! How did they grow so fast? Do all tegus grow that fast?

 

[TeguNovice]

Beautiful Tegu!

 

[Rhetoric]

Did they really grow THAT much since April?? WOW! How did they grow so fast? Do all tegus grow that fast?

Gary and Rango did, I don't think it is common to have that much growth in such a short period of time. Their previous owner fed them each 1-2 mice a week and some banana, that was about it. I feed them every day, give them a calcium supplement and use a multi vitamin a few times a week and they blew up. They were almost 2 years old in that video and were around 2 ft long (IMO pretty underweight as well). I was a little worried at first thinking that so much growth might not be too healthy for them, I didn't want to be power feeding. When I thought about it I was just offering a diet that they should have been on to begin with.

 

[gcd312]

Oh ok. I thought they were like babies in the video (like my 14 incher/2 months old). That is still a lot of growth. I heard that you aren't supposed to give them fruit/vegetables as babies? Is that what the previous owner was doing?

 

[Rhetoric]

You can give them fruits and veggies. More than likely they will refuse them, hatchlings are more carnivorous. Guru didn't show much interest in fruits until a few months ago. He still doesn't like to eat any veggies I've tried.
http://www.tegutalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6452&highlight=food#axzz1SQCnYGTi
This is a list of foods you can try offering.

Bananas are generally not something that should be offered too much, its high in phosphorus which can cause health problems in high dosages.

 

[gcd312]

Cool, thanks a lot!

 

[reptastic]

Im in love with your tegus lol, rango and gary look so different from just 3 mos ago, and that guru looks likes he's a beast with food lol, great job with them

 

[adam1120]

i love your tegus lol how big is your enclosure?

 

[Rhetoric]

Guru is in a 7.5x3.5x4 I think, I never got a true measurement on it. The person I got it from said it was 7.5x3x4 but its deeper than 3ft because guru was over 3 ft when he was finally the same length as the depth... If that makes sense lol.

Gary and Rango are in an 8x5x4

Thank you all, they've come a long way!

 

[reptastic]

Do you know their measurements? They look pretty big now

 

[Rhetoric]

I'm not too sure, I'll measure them tomorrow when they get up. Rango is only an inch or two shorter than guru! Gary is probably only like 38 inches I'm guessing. He's the smallest and the lightest. He's eating like a champ but I'm not sure he'll get too much lengthier. You never know though, the two of them have had some delayed growth. They're all really starting to fill out now which is fun to see, they just keep getting heavier and heavier lol. And their jowls! They're getting big!

 

[reptastic]

Cool, i can definately see the girth coming in, im still waiting on storms jowls to fill out, he's getting huge, im guessing around 42" stl and 14" svl(cant find my tape measure ) maybe his will kick in next year

 

[Rhetoric]

Yeah yours are getting really thick lol, a lot more than mine!

 

[herpgirl2510]

They look great Tonka I wish I had room for more.

 

[Kebechet]

Great pics! They're really getting big aren't they ^^

 

[Rhetoric]

They look great Tonka I wish I had room for more.

Me too! They're adicting

Thank you kebechet!