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Recent content by bsshig40

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    Need help with light mounting in an animal plastics enclosure Please!

    I actually made bases for all my lights. With the enclosure being 4' high, I needed to get them down some to be effective. So I have the 4 fixtures on the basking side. I have a 160w and 100w megaray and a little 50w light I plan on taking out. That and the other fixtures will have heat...
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    Need help with light mounting in an animal plastics enclosure Please!

    Not that it seems to matter, but I figured it out myself! I think I'll stick to tegu talk on facebook. Much more action and info. later!!!
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    Need help with light mounting in an animal plastics enclosure Please!

    I guess no ideas here. Lol So I finally did come up with something. I had a small warped corner on one of my panels on my T100. So I got my heat gun out and molded it back. It didn't take a whole lot of heat and I then realized that a 160w megaray is not gonna be able to get too close to this...
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    Need help with light mounting in an animal plastics enclosure Please!

    Ok, so I just got my T100 in. I did order the coasters for this so I can move it around on my shop concrete floor. But I did notice that the PVC panels just seem a little flimsy and I'm thinking of running about three 8 foot 2x4's across the bottom for some better support. My main questions is...
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    Tiny ants getting in food. Help!

    Well the bowl in the water has stopped the ants. As far as feeding him in his enclosure, I've never had any aggression issues with him, food or not. I don't feed live food as I don't want him to get aggressive. I have a mixture that he seems to like very well. His bowl is set on his cool side...
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    Tiny ants getting in food. Help!

    Well he has a tendency to eat early and then go back and eat later in the afternoon . And I don't understand why I shouldn't feed him in his enclosure. He knows where his bowl is put on the days that I feed him. He goes over and eats and then goes and basks for a while. Is there a specific...
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    Tiny ants getting in food. Help!

    So nevermind, the bowl inside the bowl of water is working. They are slowly diminishing since they can't get to his food anymore.
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    Tiny ants getting in food. Help!

    I've never seen these before but now I'm getting real tiny ants, smaller than sugar ants, getting into my tegu's food dish when I feed him. I keep his enclosure in my shop and never really had a problem with bugs. I have his enclosure sitting on top of those 1" thick rubber workout mats. I don't...
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    How often should a baby tegu poop?

    It made me laugh when I read wiping their mouth. You are correct. Everytime my little guy gets done eating, he wipes his mouth off. Sometimes in between bites also. To the Op's question, mine eats ever other day but pretty much poops and pees every day.
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    Really nice to see him lately.

    So the last couple weeks, my little guy has been coming out daily. The wife made up some nice mixed food and we froze it up in ice cube trays. I usually set one out about every other day. He's been eating a little more each time. Today he just about finished a whole one. He looks like he is...
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    Trying to make it inviting!

    All My temps are taken at points of contact with a temp gun.
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    Trying to make it inviting!

    His hot basking area is on a hide that is about 1 ft square. He goes up there and will sit for a while. Inside the basking hide is about 85 dg. He seems to be maneuvering around to where he wants to go just fine. Doesn't seem to be veering away from any spot in his enclosure.
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    Trying to make it inviting!

    My tegus basking side is 115-120. The 90dg is the new shelf I put up higher on his cool side. His cool hide below this shelf is 74dg.
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    Trying to make it inviting!

    So I decided to put a small basking light over his new cool side shelf. I have no sunlight in my shop so his only light source is my 30" zoo med florescent light set on a 12hr timer. He still has his cool side hide which is in the mid 70's, on top of the hide is 80's and the basking shelf is...
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    non-eater

    I have a blue colored water dish. Lol Darn it.
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