When is hibernation coming lol

[reptastic]

Idk know if i can handle anymore growth spurts lol, hibernation needs to hurry up, im averaging about 3-4lbs of food a week, i have tried skipping a day only to find 2 restless tegus desperately looking for food lol, storm is 40" and rayne is 38", these guys are getting huge, check this out(im only 5'10)


Storm

Rayne

 

[herpgirl2510]

Chevy my extreme looks pretty close to rayne's size. He can pack away so much food he will eat for 10 minutes I have no idea where he puts it all. I am dreading hibernation.

 

[reptastic]

Lol i have been wondering the samething, i am kinda looking foward to hibernation, i need a break and so does my wallet lol, im gonna miss them though

 

[CrankbaitJedi]

Hibernation!!! No! No!! NOOOOOOO!!! I need more time. Just more time. I need to give the little man some time to hit a couple of growth spurts!!! I am now getting a little geeked to see what happens when my big B&W girl (2-year beefy 40 inches), wakes up next to her Blue 'prince' in the spring (2-year very svelte 30 inches). Do I get some Black and Blue Bruiser babies??? Do I??? It has been so much fun the last week watching these two. I hope the romance continues when it counts. But he really needs to beef up. I have a huge shipment of food arriving this weekend... I will do my part, I hope he does his.
Grow Grow Grow Grow Grow Grow... etc.

 

[reptastic]

I think mines are beefed up enough lol, i want to get a blueXred or a blue to put with my giant and try my hand at all american lol, i think he will be ready to breed next season, but i dont know about my b/w probably got to wait another year

 

[reptastic]

Hibernation!!! No! No!! NOOOOOOO!!! I need more time. Just more time. I need to give the little man some time to hit a couple of growth spurts!!! I am now getting a little geeked to see what happens when my big B&W girl (2-year beefy 40 inches), wakes up next to her Blue 'prince' in the spring (2-year very svelte 30 inches). Do I get some Black and Blue Bruiser babies?? Do I?? It has been so much fun the last week watching these two. I hope the romance continues when it counts. But he really needs to beef up. I have a huge shipment of food arriving this weekend... I will do my part, I hope he does his.
Grow Grow Grow Grow Grow Grow... etc.

Btw what are you feeding to beef him up?

 

[laurarfl]

But they look so cool! They are really gorgeous, gorgeous tegus!!!

 

[tora]

So beautiful! I wish mine was as white!

 

[Orion]

I was just thinking the same thing, I have 3 Tegus. Bob-11 pounds, Yoshi- 9 pounds and Tiny 8.8 pounds. My boy Bob is 42 inches. After their bath today I went to feed them and Bob are the entire plate of food I made for the 3 of them even before the others decided to see what was for lunch.

 

[reptastic]

Hahaha that sounds like something rayne would do to storm, thanks everyone

 

[Draco D Tegu]

When do they start to go down? Gator never really hibernated last year, and Baby didn't do it either (formerly named atlantis).

 

[Rhetoric]

I'm with you on that, I'm actually looking forward to hibernation lol. I've been feeding tegus daily for the last year.

CrankbaitJedi- Do you use a multivitamin? My 09's were super small when I got them and besides pushing a ton of food I used one and it really seemed to beef them up a lot. They went through massive growth spurts and put on a huge amount of weight. I started with every day for a week or two and cut back to a couple time a week after they looked "healthy" again. If you do use one be careful on how much and how often, they have phosphorus which can be bad in higher dosages.

 

[reptastic]

Its dependant on the individual tegu, last year they went down in mid september, im hoping for august this year lol, like bobby's, i havnt used any vitamins, i been trying to get away from calcium by feeding chicken necks and wings then getting the out in the natural sun for the best uvb, i think its working well, we will be going to the vet in a few weeks for a yearly checkup before hibernation

 

[jumper123]

love them!!!

 

[reptastic]

love them!!!

We got something in common so do i lol

 

[CrankbaitJedi]

Feeding him mice and bringing the heat! I have a colony of dubias and will be getting some chicks mixed in once he decides not to disembowel everything first. I have a truckload of weanlings coming in this weekend to see if I can 'train' him to swallow something whole. We will see.

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I do have a vitamin but when feeding mice, I usually don't bother. I am just being silly with all this anyway. I am being selfish in wanting him to grow up so fast. I just figure if he is going to be a 24/7 hornball... I should get hatchlings out of the deal. Plus it just looks funny when he is trying soooo hard.

 

[reptastic]

Is he a big eater Before hibernation mines didnt grow much at all maybe 3", they started hitting their growth spurts in march about a month after waking up and having stopped since lol, it actually took them a while to even start taking mice, i gotta tegu grinder i feed them that works wonders if you want the ingredients

 

[CrankbaitJedi]

I am not sure what his tendencies are with much. The guy I am trying to beef up is the new Blue I have had for about a week.
I would like to get the recipe... no harm no foul in gathering info. I would appreciate it! Thanks!!!

 

[reptastic]

lol Ill inbox it to you

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I get about 5lbs of ground turkey, 3 lbs of beef liver, 2-3lbs chicken gizzards/heart, 4lbs beef kidneys, 3lbs beef heart, 2lbs chicken breast, 3-4lbs chicken necks, 2-3lbs chicken wings, 2lbs telapia and 6 boiled eggs, i either smash up the wings and necks with a hammer or use a food processor(if stong enough) everything else is chopped/smashed/grounded up and mixed with the ground turkey and then the necks and wings are added, i also mmix in fruit like strawberries, mango, papaya and blueberries, and veggies like squash and greens, seperate it into 2day feeding bags usually last a month a few days