jerseabeth
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Hello everyone! First post here. I've been researching tegus for several months now (after learning they existed at all, hah); I recently discovered this forum and decided to join after seeing it mentioned here and there on several blogs, and after it showed up in a few Google searches. In the last month and a half I've caught myself daydreaming about having a tegu of my own. Everything I have read seems to agree that a well-socialized tegu will be companionable in a way that most reptiles are not, and that they're highly intelligent animals, and I find them fascinating.
I've cared for a beardie and an iguana in the past, so I'm not an inexperienced reptile keeper, but I'm concerned this is not enough experience to keep an animal like a tegu. So I have a couple questions for the owners more experienced than I am; what is the hardest part about owning a tegu? What kind of experience should someone have before getting one? What are some things about tegu keeping that you wished you'd known when you got your first one?
Also, finally, a disclaimer: I know several months seems like a short period of time to be researching, but if I did decide to get a tegu, it would be a year and a half to two years in the future. I want to be sure that I can take care of a tegu and that I've read everything I can about them.
Thanks for reading! I hope I put this thread in the right place!
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I've cared for a beardie and an iguana in the past, so I'm not an inexperienced reptile keeper, but I'm concerned this is not enough experience to keep an animal like a tegu. So I have a couple questions for the owners more experienced than I am; what is the hardest part about owning a tegu? What kind of experience should someone have before getting one? What are some things about tegu keeping that you wished you'd known when you got your first one?
Also, finally, a disclaimer: I know several months seems like a short period of time to be researching, but if I did decide to get a tegu, it would be a year and a half to two years in the future. I want to be sure that I can take care of a tegu and that I've read everything I can about them.
Thanks for reading! I hope I put this thread in the right place!
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