Hi,
I received a baby red tegu from Ty’s reptiles at the beginning of August 2018. The tegu was very active and energetic. It was eating a lot of crickets everyday and occasionally pinkies and chicken liver. Because I am located in the north eastern climate, it gets real cold around here. As expected, the tegus activity levels drastically slowed, stopped eating by the end of September. So I let him be and reduced that basking light to only two hours a day. His night light is on all the time and the uvb is on daily. I give him baths twice a week to keep up hydration levels and he would sometimes lick chicken liver blood. That’s it. I would rearely handle him bc Ik I need to let him rest. However, this wk when I took him out for his bath, his claws looked crooked, dented, dried up, and cut up. It seems that he has no individual control in each claw and he just uses his palms to get around. For example:
Plz lmk if there is anything I can do. I do not want to lose him.
I received a baby red tegu from Ty’s reptiles at the beginning of August 2018. The tegu was very active and energetic. It was eating a lot of crickets everyday and occasionally pinkies and chicken liver. Because I am located in the north eastern climate, it gets real cold around here. As expected, the tegus activity levels drastically slowed, stopped eating by the end of September. So I let him be and reduced that basking light to only two hours a day. His night light is on all the time and the uvb is on daily. I give him baths twice a week to keep up hydration levels and he would sometimes lick chicken liver blood. That’s it. I would rearely handle him bc Ik I need to let him rest. However, this wk when I took him out for his bath, his claws looked crooked, dented, dried up, and cut up. It seems that he has no individual control in each claw and he just uses his palms to get around. For example:
Plz lmk if there is anything I can do. I do not want to lose him.