Hello! Before I introduce my tegu I'm going to introduce myself. I go by Dash, I started loving reptiles since I was young and at eleven I began my collection which really was more like additional family. I am nineteen, second year at college for a major in Biomedical Animal Sciences for equestrian/exotic. While I am young considered to many people in this hobby or owning Tegus please do not mistake me for unintelligent or inexperienced.
Recently obtained a year old Columbian who is a little scared but can be held, carried, and rubbed. I owned a gold tegu before my move and I am plenty experienced with the slight difference in temperament between the Argentine and Columbian. I picked her up from a local shelter, paid her adoption fee, and now she's destressing in a warm, large dog kennel with her choice of free roam of the reptile room while I continue the almost complete construction of her outdoor habitat.
I joined here primarily because of her prior abuse she has many vertical scars running up and down her back, her tail, and her one nostril she cannot breathe out of properly because of the scar tissue and the way it formed. I would like to continue some sort of proper treatment to alivieate her itching and discomfort as her scars heal....she's old had these scars for little less then 4-5 months. She loves when I rub her raw neck where the scales have been completely torn off. I am using aloe Vera and coco butter (after she goes to bed). I also would like advise on how to naturally keep her claws in check. I trimmed and filled them as they were horrendously curved around her toes.
Thanks to all that will give out bits of advise. - Dash
Recently obtained a year old Columbian who is a little scared but can be held, carried, and rubbed. I owned a gold tegu before my move and I am plenty experienced with the slight difference in temperament between the Argentine and Columbian. I picked her up from a local shelter, paid her adoption fee, and now she's destressing in a warm, large dog kennel with her choice of free roam of the reptile room while I continue the almost complete construction of her outdoor habitat.
I joined here primarily because of her prior abuse she has many vertical scars running up and down her back, her tail, and her one nostril she cannot breathe out of properly because of the scar tissue and the way it formed. I would like to continue some sort of proper treatment to alivieate her itching and discomfort as her scars heal....she's old had these scars for little less then 4-5 months. She loves when I rub her raw neck where the scales have been completely torn off. I am using aloe Vera and coco butter (after she goes to bed). I also would like advise on how to naturally keep her claws in check. I trimmed and filled them as they were horrendously curved around her toes.
Thanks to all that will give out bits of advise. - Dash
