Sorry to be posting about the tegu so much.....

[JadeFarms]

I was just wondering if this was a good setup for a tegu. It is 6 inches wide and 8 inches wide, I measured it again today. He is a Colombian tegu, and he likes to bask in the sun, he has some shade, and he will get a hide soon. He has bricks around the sides, and dirt over chicken wire in the middle so he can dig. He likes to bask in the sun. He has a giant water dish, and he is hand fed, but he still runs, and doesn’t like to be held a lot, so how do I stop that fear? His name is Cinder, and I think he is a male. I am very sorry to be posting about him, I know it’s off topic, and thanks for the replies!

 

[BullChick]

Whoa! I was just reading up on them, and while he’s only going to be fifteen pounds, he can grow to five feet. Surely that’s with the tail, but I don’t know. It also says they are carnivores, ruthless scavengers, and jump 3’ vertically.
They need time to be tamed, but it can be done after a while.

 

[JadeFarms]

Whoa! I was just reading up on them, and while he’s only going to be fifteen pounds, he can grow to five feet. Surely that’s with the tail, but I don’t know. It also says they are carnivores, ruthless scavengers, and jump 3’ vertically.
They need time to be tamed, but it can be done after a while.

He is getting there, he is a gold tegu, so he will only get 3 to 3 1/2 ft, right now he’s 1 1/2 ft.

 

[aart]

It is 6 inches wide and 8 inches wide, I measured it again today.

Do you mean 6 feet by 8 feet?
Can they dig out?
What do you feed it?

I am very sorry to be posting about him, I know it’s off topic,

Not off topic in 'other pets' forum.
So no need to be sorry.

I hope you keep this thread updated...it's kind of fascinating.

 

[JadeFarms]

Do you mean 6 feet by 8 feet?
Can they dig out?
What do you feed it?

Not off topic in 'other pets' forum.
So no need to be sorry.

I hope you keep this thread updated...it's kind of fascinating.

Thanks, I feed him brown anoles that I catch and keep for a few days (pretty much quarantining). Also, I feed him eggs, fruits, and frogs. And he has wire under where the dirt is so he can’t get out.

 

[aart]

(pretty much quarantining)

For disease? Would take more than a few days, just like chickens?

 

[JadeFarms]

For disease? Would take more than a few days, just like chickens?

Ya, it does, but I just check for disease, look at their poop, and see how active they are. I will freeze them sometimes.

 

[aart]

I will freeze them sometimes.

So the tegu will eat non moving food?
Wonders if any 'food' will wander into the enclosure?

 

[JadeFarms]

So the tegu will eat non moving food?
Wonders if any 'food' will wander into the enclosure?

Ya, I have tongs to move the food with too.

 

[chickens really]

All I know is you have to make the entire environment as warm and as humid as the creature needs..