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Ok, so before all you guys start to get mad at me for not being able to care for my little Vegas properly like most of you guys would, but I really was trying my hardest and now, I'm just plain stuck, where to go from this point on.
It's been about 5 months since I got my red tegu from J&J Reptiles, which was shipped to me, came healthy, perfectly fine, nice, never tried to bite, never ran away, no sudden movements etc. It was just plain calm, it only shook a little for a while, maybe for 2 days when I held him, but he got used to his new home and stopped being skittish and didn't mind at all while being handled, he even ate from my hand. But only about 2 weeks after I recieved him, he went into his hide, and blocked the entrance. I never saw him again, until mid February. I noticed that he was in shed, and gave him a bath, but unfortunatly, he lost one of his toes, and a tip of it's tail came off (it looks like nothing now), I don't know why he wouldn't shed properly and his body parts came off, but it got me pretty upset. Actually, I went mad that day, because I've never had anything like this happen before. So I fed him lots of ground turkey, boiled eggs, and soft fruits, and tried mice, which he really didn't like, never ate them actually, to tell the truth, he didn't eat any of it, except eggs. I sprayed his enclosure everyday, put a bricks, and a rough rock in there for him to rub against during the shed. I don't think, he atually shed at all. Then my parents wanted to go on a trip to Victoria, and I was like " But what about Vegas? he's got shedding issues" then my dad gets really mad, because he never really wanted me to have a red tegu in the first place and now, I didn't want to go on a trip because of a red tegu. But I went anyways, because the situation was pretty intense, I left a bowl of boiled eggs, grapes, apples, salmon, and ground turkey in there for him while he were away. (We left on Monday) So I come back tonight, only hours ago, and see my little Vegas in his brick hide room with mulch against the entrance a sleep, his skin was all dark, and didn't even eat the food I left in there for him, and it looks like he's about to loose a couple more toes too. I had this shed-aid thing, which I bought for my previous reptiles, and I used that for my tegu a couple times before, and just used it again a hour ago. I put my tegu and got the shed-aid in a little tub of wet mulch and a rough rock, and covered it with a warm wet pillow case. It held the moisture very well, and so did the heat, my teug got active and start to walk around the tub, which made him rub his body all over the rough mulch and the rock. and about a hour later, I checked on him and he still did not get his shed off, it's not even moving away from his scales.
I think I've made a mistake on the tegu from the start, it was doing great, and now, it looks like he's about to die or something, because of bad shed. Please read and help.
It's been about 5 months since I got my red tegu from J&J Reptiles, which was shipped to me, came healthy, perfectly fine, nice, never tried to bite, never ran away, no sudden movements etc. It was just plain calm, it only shook a little for a while, maybe for 2 days when I held him, but he got used to his new home and stopped being skittish and didn't mind at all while being handled, he even ate from my hand. But only about 2 weeks after I recieved him, he went into his hide, and blocked the entrance. I never saw him again, until mid February. I noticed that he was in shed, and gave him a bath, but unfortunatly, he lost one of his toes, and a tip of it's tail came off (it looks like nothing now), I don't know why he wouldn't shed properly and his body parts came off, but it got me pretty upset. Actually, I went mad that day, because I've never had anything like this happen before. So I fed him lots of ground turkey, boiled eggs, and soft fruits, and tried mice, which he really didn't like, never ate them actually, to tell the truth, he didn't eat any of it, except eggs. I sprayed his enclosure everyday, put a bricks, and a rough rock in there for him to rub against during the shed. I don't think, he atually shed at all. Then my parents wanted to go on a trip to Victoria, and I was like " But what about Vegas? he's got shedding issues" then my dad gets really mad, because he never really wanted me to have a red tegu in the first place and now, I didn't want to go on a trip because of a red tegu. But I went anyways, because the situation was pretty intense, I left a bowl of boiled eggs, grapes, apples, salmon, and ground turkey in there for him while he were away. (We left on Monday) So I come back tonight, only hours ago, and see my little Vegas in his brick hide room with mulch against the entrance a sleep, his skin was all dark, and didn't even eat the food I left in there for him, and it looks like he's about to loose a couple more toes too. I had this shed-aid thing, which I bought for my previous reptiles, and I used that for my tegu a couple times before, and just used it again a hour ago. I put my tegu and got the shed-aid in a little tub of wet mulch and a rough rock, and covered it with a warm wet pillow case. It held the moisture very well, and so did the heat, my teug got active and start to walk around the tub, which made him rub his body all over the rough mulch and the rock. and about a hour later, I checked on him and he still did not get his shed off, it's not even moving away from his scales.
I think I've made a mistake on the tegu from the start, it was doing great, and now, it looks like he's about to die or something, because of bad shed. Please read and help.
