Tegu moving underground

[nepoez]

I use soil/sand as substrate. I've been trying to grow grass but they always end up dying. Today I realized how that happens!

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGDjSE1z3Us[/video]

 

[kingofnorse]

Showing video as unavailable, also, you aren't using any growing chemicals and stuff that most people use on lawns are you?

 

[nepoez]

haha nope just grass seeds and soil with no additives mixed with 25% sand. Plus some bleech.... jk

 

[kingofnorse]

yeah, i think if you want the grass, you'd be better off with those grass patches if they make them without chemicals, but honestly tegu's are wrecking balls and pretty much rearrange anything and everything at will once they are big enough to move it lol

 

[nepoez]

haha yeah after I saw what happened today I think I'm gonna give up on growing stuff..

 

[BatGirl1]

You 'could ' put potted plants in and bury the pots with substrate. However pots would need to be heavy like clay/ceramic. And maybe even put large stones near the base of the plants so he wouldn't dig them up. Even so, they may get ruined but you could try. Maybe if plant was positioned in a corner for support. (?)

 

[nepoez]

haha, I don't know.. my guy is super active, he climbed every square inch of the enclosure.

 

[BatGirl1]

Niles is a lump. he just likes to bury himself under the basking bench. Maybe you could get those "hanging " plants and put them up in the corners, hung from the ceiling or corner beams. they can grow downward like a waterfall but with your luck he'd probably try to climb them and pull them down :/

 

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

Does it make burrows(tunnels), or does it just "swim" underground?