Melony205&Douglass
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Hello i am a new member in the forum that just got a tegu since around September 2024, and while i'm still in middle school(or high school depends on the country) i am very enthusiastic about this animal and before i got my boy Doug, i did research by looking at some tiktoks or youtube shorts about them and they seemed kind of interesting and wont show aggression unless threatened and boy was i wrong because that research isn't enough research and now that i actually had a tegu that i got with my lunch money savings things has got complicated and maybe quite pressuring, it got so bad that i almost lose passion for it. So after i did more research on it there is still one thing that i am still confused about and that is brumation, recently like all tegu owners(maybe) Douglass has been sleeping a lot lately, while i knew he was brumating i am still confused about what the symptoms are because "sleeping a lot" or "eating less" its not enough for me and i also saw another thread in tegutalk talking about how a tegu might have a parasite and one of those symptoms are sleeping so that is very worrying. Another thing that im still unsure is that, during brumation can you still give it warm baths? I really don't know if this is disturbing it or something, will it like "reset" the process or will he keep sleeping/become less active until he's done? because where i come from, there are lots of flies moths and other insects literally invading Douglass's enclosure and i've seen eggs of them and i also see worms, not superworms or a mealworm, literal worms in his food bowl that i have to wash out everytime(the smell is no joke either) so i'm just worried something will happen to him if i just leave him sleeping like that for months. Also another thing that i still question is that, what's the difference between brumation or just having a really low temp enclosure that made him lost his appetite? because the enclosure that i bought come equipped with a thermometer and i don't know if it is that accurate or not but as far as i know the enclosure was at 29-37°C and apparently you need around 47.7°C or above to make a tegu active and have more appetite, again this was at another thread i saw but correct me if i'm wrong because this is all i know so far.
So i'm really sorry if i'm not structural here, also this is only some of the questions that i want to ask and there is more because i am not confident enough to leave my boy Doug alone like that just slacking, i hope someone replies and give me answers or solutions to my problem, thank you.
So i'm really sorry if i'm not structural here, also this is only some of the questions that i want to ask and there is more because i am not confident enough to leave my boy Doug alone like that just slacking, i hope someone replies and give me answers or solutions to my problem, thank you.
