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Recent content by RareDragonkeeper

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    Tegu randomly freaks out

    Obviously that's not true if people are selling them correct?
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    Tegu randomly freaks out

    Please explain how buying a wild caught tegu would "ruin the pet trade and make reptiles go extinct"? That make no sense, so I'm going to assume you're just trolling. But just to put your little mind at ease it was advertised as a captive bred baby tegu, the seller lied. It was a dehydrated and...
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    Tegu randomly freaks out

    I have a female b/w, she's about a year old, wild caught. Lately she's been just having random moments where she'll just spaz out and dart off with little to no explanation (everyone is sitting just chilling and she'll just start acting weird and scared/antisocial). So I was bringing her food...
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    Why are some people against creating hybrid tegus?

    I wondered that about the chacoan, they look an awful lot like Argentine b/w tegus sometimes. I tried looking them up to see the differences between them, didn't really come up with anything truly solid. Some sources refer to it as the "giant" tegu. But when I type in giant tegu in Google all I...
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    Why are some people against creating hybrid tegus?

    Forgive my ignorance of not knowing blue tegus weren't bred, let's just replace the color blue with purple. Are those a breed? Or are they a naturally occurring animal that was imported too? How many different kinds of tegus are there? I know about chacoan, blue, b/w, gold, red, "purple", what...
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    Why are some people against creating hybrid tegus?

    Like what other breeds? And wouldn't a "breed" be by definition something that was "bred"? So they have even more breeds in south America? "A breed is a specific group of domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that...
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    Help! I don’t know what this is.

    I'm sure would've thought the same thing, especially with less experience than you, I'm 85% sure I would've freaked out and assumed it was a prolapse. I only know the textbook terms and all that jazz. But I wouldn't know what to do about it other than take them to the vet... but if this is ever...
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    Any noteworthy differences between Argentine black and white vs red tegu?

    Well when my little guy first arrived that was the first thing I noticed, sunken in stomach and pointy hip bones. You could easily feel and see his ribs and spinal column and hips. That's why I assumed he was wild caught... because if not then that means these people were starving their animals...
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    Help! I don’t know what this is.

    A hemipene is basically a reptiles penis. They have 2 penises attached to their own separate testicle. So it coming out means that it was getting engorged... kinda like a mammal penis. So basically what we're looking at is a reptile bone, I guess?
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    New juvenile tegu , out of control

    Nice lol I love the pic I just got a good idiot human look from both of mine from just a few moments ago, I woke them up from their after meal/misting nap. They really loved the misting part today and the bigger one (juice) is shedding nicely right now, while the smaller red one (still no name...
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    Force Interaction or Slow Approach?

    I'm somewhat new to this myself and I think it's a solid question. From my limited experience it's a best to have a healthy mix of both. Knowing when to back off, when they truly don't seem to want to be bothered and knowing when you can push interacting a little bit further and reading them for...
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    New here, lots of questions to come

    Why thankyou, I'm certainly proud of them both and the little red one (nameless as of now) Is really cool. It scares very easily but it's very sociable (until it sees something move too fast, or that looks too unfamiliar). It's taming down pretty quickly too, always super active (seriously...
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    New here, lots of questions to come

    The wc looking guy (betelgeuse or beetlejuice if you prefer) came from cbreptile. They said captive bred in the description but I'm not so sure about that based on his behavior when he first showed up and he looked kinda skinny. Not unhealthy mind you just skinny like you'd expect from an...
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    Opinions on best feeder insects for tegus?

    So what are everyone's opinions on the best options for feeder insects? I wouldn't mind hearing what everyone's diet is for their tegus young or old and recommendations are fine as well I'd love to hear those as well. So far I have a hearty cricket colony and mealworms and a dwindling supply of...
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