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Also with the new design I made there is a 1" gap between top of the frame and the top of your cage. This way you have a little wiggle room for wires and not to mention being able to pull it out whenever you want.
Not a problem, make sure you post lots of pictures throughout the build. I had...
Here is the plan I came up with. It should end up saving you money on lumber.
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I answered your PM but I just thought of something. Instead of making a super strong cage you could just make your cage out of a few sheets of 1/2"-3/4" plywood then build a frame that goes around the cage out of 2"x4"s slap a sheet of 1/4" plywood on that then put on your mattress. Give me a...
You've only had her for 5 days and two of those days shes eaten. I would only start to worry about her not eating after at least a week. On a side note though a mouse a day to my understand isn't very healthy for reptiles. I would try to vary the diet more as I see you are. Mice are more of a...
I used Spruce for all my cage builds and I've had reptiles use unsealed Spruce as a basking spot with no problems. My tegu regularly walks on unsealed Spruce wood because I never sealed the outside of her cage. Like I said, no problems from me and I've never heard anything bad about Spruce.
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Like what? I've yet to hear anything bad about them, I'm using them and they are working fine. I don't usually use them but it was those or no UVB for at least 2 weeks.
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I guess everyone missed the spot where MizM said that the pic was taken before the substrate was added so you could she the wire? LOL
My only problem would be having the tegus and the black throat in the same cage. Personally I would take each out separate times or put in a divider for each to...
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They can swim for a bit but they aren't very well built for it. I personally wouldn't put them in a pool, just buy a kiddie pool for like $10.99, throw it out somewhere flat, fill it up with the hose and give it like 25 mins in the sun. Should be warm enough then for a tegu to swim in.
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Waste of money, trust me I tried it. They weren't delicate little things either. Honestly the only thing I think your gonna find that can live in there would be some type of shrub or a small tree and even then you need to give the plant time to get its roots in (3 months minimum.) Maybe grass...
My only comment is that you might want to look into a MVB for a cage that high because your UVB tube won't reach the bottom, I guess it really depends on your substrate depth and how low the bulb is though. Farthest a tube can produce UVB is 20" (Repti-sun 10.0, thinks thats the name) Also...
Quite the lucky little bugger! Would he have been food when the tegus woken up?
Good luck with the little guy/girl, fingers crossed you don't get bitten ;)
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Maybe try making a slurry out of it and blend some snails into it? You could also try rubbing the snails with mice and rats so she get used to eating food that smells like rodents which will hopefully lead to her eating rodents.
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I'm not sure if you tried Tux or not but he is going to be getting in some of Bobby's tegu's so you may want try him.
Thats strange for Sam to be taking so long with the order...did you phone him during the 11 days? Maybe try that and see whats going on.
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