Underground Reptiles Chacoan White headed Tegus Are they really giants?

[thatoneguy]

Ground turkey isn't to bad, I mix in the calcium/vitamins and make little bite size balls, not as bad as chicken hearts.

I also make scrambled eggs by mixing in the calcium/vitamin plus sometimes chopped up greens or veggies. Then cook them in the microwave about 45 seconds at a time then stir and repeat until done.

My tegu seems to like tilapia, I'm not sure if he likes salmon I offered him some the past 2 days didn't eat to much of it.

 

[Walter1]

Little Caesar's or Rachel Ray dog food in individual serving containers will work dusted with calcium.

 

[DangerousDann]

I ordered mine from Underground Reptiles on September 3rd and got him on September 5th. His name is Dozer. He has already started climbing onto my hand and arm.

 

[Rud3dog]

Wow! So beautiful! All the white on his head looks so great! Please upload some more clearer pics, I really love yours contrast and color!

 

[Walter1]

Congrats. Looks like Dozer'll grow up with lots of white with crisp contrast. The black teardrop under the eye is associated with one of the morphs.

 

[Rud3dog]

Please upload some more clearer pics! Your Tegu is bad A$$!

 

[DangerousDann]

Thank you, I've been shooting a lot of video of Dozer since I got him, I'll post the YouTube link in my next post.

 

[DangerousDann]

This was me having a little fun with the clips I shot of Dozer his first 24hours. He was shedding when he arrived. I post vids of him on Facebook everyday, but YouTube takes a while to upload. I'll take more pics in the morning when he wakes up, to show since the shed.

 

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[DangerousDann]

I posted more pics of Dozer that I took this morning. We have 3 bearded dragon, a Tokay gecko, and 2 leopard geckos, but Dozer is my first Tegu. Some things I'm still getting used to, like when he burrows and I can't find him. I started him on ground turkey since he's eat 40 to 50 crickets a day.

 

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[sr3052]

View attachment 9798 I ordered mine from Underground Reptiles on September 3rd and got him on September 5th. His name is Dozer. He has already started climbing onto my hand and arm.

I also got my chacoan from underground august 18th he is awesome

 

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[Vastra]

A friend of ours recommended rodentpro.com (about 30 cents per mouse sold in hundred count) or you could try hare/today.com too they have all kinds of whole prey and ground meats

 

[Rud3dog]

Its been a little more then a month since I have been here mostly because of my water monitors needing more attention. Reguardless of what to call them chacoan giants or what ever, mine is developing a very very grey head. I dont know if this will turn to white later one but the first 2 inches of his head is mostly grey. I will post some pics later. Will his grey turn white? If not he will definitely be a grey head lol

 

[Walter1]

Sounds like he's picking up the traits of that morph or ssp.

Hope you waters are doing well. What a handful.

 

[thatoneguy]

My chacoans head is not white either grey maybe slight tint of green still