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    Brumating out of season

    That's not really out of season. People have a somewhat erroneous idea that their brumation period is often in response to cold (it is somewhat, but that's not what really starts it off). From my studies in the wild, it's clear tegus start preparing for brumation quite soon after the summer...
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    Albino Breeding

    It's a tad more complicated than what many seem to understand. Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly saying everyone is wrong here. First, we need to realize there can be more than one gene that results in albinism. While the odds are pretty good that breeding albino to albino, or het to het are...
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    Refining my hatchling Tegu sexing skills, please advise...

    Arrow pointing in the correct area (although perhaps a mm or 2 to the left on that side). With the detail in that photo, it's kind of 50/50. With younger tegus it really helps to look at both sides (many breeders claim to have observed females with "one button") and have a very focused, up close...
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    Fitting giant cages through doors?

    Either you design them for break down/collapsing, or you build them in place with the realization they will be busted up if you need to move them.
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    Early Brumation?!

    I'd have to go looking into data on Pogona, but in regards to your tegus, they start preparing for brumation shortly after the summer solstice which was nearly 2 months ago...so I wouldn't necessarily call this early. During this "preparation" period, you will see a lot less eating, activity...
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    My Tegu wiggling out of control, trying to pick

    Sorry to say, you're basically throwing away good supplements. Tegus have a very thick integument, the outer layer of which is heavily keratinized with a fair bit of lipid. Meaning: that's a pretty impermeable barrier. Better to put those supplements in the drinking water (yes, the tegu is still...
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    Can I brumate my blue tegu?

    Forgive me but I'm going to assume you don't have the fortune to have much in the way of equipment to gauge metabolism in your tegu (while I'm a nerd and have an oxygen gas analyzer, CO2 gas analyzer, polygraph with amplifiers and filters for nerve, heart, and muscle recordings, sitting around...
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    Can I brumate my blue tegu?

    This may be an all together different thing, though. Tegus are also well known for avoiding thermally inappropriate conditions: not only brumating to avoid the cold and resource restricted winter, but hunkering down and burying when things get too hot. I'm not saying for certain this is what...
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    Can I brumate my blue tegu?

    There could very well be a number of varying, unrelated things that could be at play here. For one, he may not have been brumating at all: certain illnesses will express as tegus being less active, losing appetite, and spending a lot of time sleeping. The display given....looks a lot, to the...
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    Is my Tegu hibernating in July

    Sleeping more and eating less are "correlates" of hibernation in tegus, but they don't necessarily mean it IS hibernating. The really only definitive way to discern hibernation is not by behaviour, but by metabolism (hibernation/brumation is a seasonal physiological state of suppressed...
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    Male/Female help?

    A little blurry, but looks to be a male.
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    Can I brumate my blue tegu?

    Pretty much everything about blue tegus is fiction. People have from the beginnings made up stories about them....but NO ONE has ever verified if any of them are actually true. The closest was a breeder who had records from exactly where they imported them from in Brasil....except they were...
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    Male or female?

    Especially with Salvator rufescens, DETAIL is extremely important because they are often very subtle, hard to tell in the manner you are attempting. Here's one of your photos again. Everything outside the red circles is pretty much useless information, it will not help us solve what you are...
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    Substrate question

    First: In the pet hobby community, people spread a lot of stories without ever checking the veracity. Make it a health concern, and that is even more addictive: gotta share this, makes me look intelligent! And if you've ever played that "telephone line" game as a kid (one kid starts a phrase...
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    Do Tegus need to brumate?

    Problem is and I have to keep explaining to people, everyone thinks brumation is defined by behaviour - it is not, it is defined by physiology. A tegu to be awake every day and still be brumating. The fact yours was still hungry (and assumed eating) means your assumption is likely correct and he...
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