Long story short someone dropped an arg tegu off at my door when it was 102 outside, he had no airholes, and he was dehydrated.
He's very beautiful but he's super afraid of humans. He allows me to hold him for short periods of time while I escort him to a play pen and a bathroom where I sit and study while he wanders around. He gets super freaked when he goes outside or even by a window.
My house was built 1958 and it cannot support the amount of dirt + dozen other cages I have in my reptile room required for a tegu. For my columbian tegu I am using a closed off pen in the room (4 walls no top). It is build this way because one of the walls opens like a gate so I can easily walk in to mop, spot clean, and grab her. Half of it is my plastic tile I use as a standard for the room and the other half is a 65 gallon ( 3 foot tall) tub filled with dirt: sand/topsoil/mulch mix with inset bricks for basking under 2 75 watt lamps. There's a ramp to go onto the bin. the whole thing is a 6 x 6 square.
I was wondering if it was possible to do the same thing with this newly acquired tegu? I have a space I could work with a 7 x 5 rectangle or do they definitely need more digging space?
He's very beautiful but he's super afraid of humans. He allows me to hold him for short periods of time while I escort him to a play pen and a bathroom where I sit and study while he wanders around. He gets super freaked when he goes outside or even by a window.
My house was built 1958 and it cannot support the amount of dirt + dozen other cages I have in my reptile room required for a tegu. For my columbian tegu I am using a closed off pen in the room (4 walls no top). It is build this way because one of the walls opens like a gate so I can easily walk in to mop, spot clean, and grab her. Half of it is my plastic tile I use as a standard for the room and the other half is a 65 gallon ( 3 foot tall) tub filled with dirt: sand/topsoil/mulch mix with inset bricks for basking under 2 75 watt lamps. There's a ramp to go onto the bin. the whole thing is a 6 x 6 square.
I was wondering if it was possible to do the same thing with this newly acquired tegu? I have a space I could work with a 7 x 5 rectangle or do they definitely need more digging space?
