Chacoan tegu growth rate...

[olympus]

Ripper has grown another 2 inches, but I noticed some skin scrapes on his face the other day and nose rub so I put some neosporin on it and hope it heals nicely.

 

[pinto24]

nice Tegu. Is that Bumblebee in the first pic?

 

[akward_silence91]

lol. Whats that on his head?

 

[shabazz]

mine is still only about 14in he really wont eat that much

 

[Kharnifex]

lol, i need to measure my boy, he deff don't have the girth you got.

i need to stimulate his appitite.

 

[shabazz]

mine still not eating that much, i just looked at my last post on here and he was 14in now hes 15in

 

[olympus]

These are recent pics of my chacoan I got last year from Bobby, and the last one is when I first got him.

 

[Richard21]

You really have a beast. Nice!

 

[DaveDragon]

He's lookin' good!!! What's with the gloves??

 

[KSTAR]

Nice extreme

 

[GOT_TEGUS]

awesome GU lookin good. why the gloves ?

 

[LouDog760]

I think its the nails, god they freakin hurt.

 

[DaveDragon]

But he's just a little guy!!! :lol:

 

[Beasty]

"Hand dagger" solution= "Pet-i-cure" once every couple weeks.
Belle was awesome about it. She's due again now and I have as of yet to try the others. I hardly notice on my hands and arms any more but when they want to sit on your shoulder and scrape your neck, that hurts!

 

[olympus]

Anyone who has one knows that their nails are like razor blades. Even when he was smaller his nails dug into my skin. They hurt like hell.

 

[DaveDragon]

We trim all our lizards nails. They do hurt most on the neck!!

 

[Jer723]

We trim all our lizards nails. They do hurt most on the neck!!

hey dave? when should you start trimming the nails?

 

[DaveDragon]

hey dave? when should you start trimming the nails?

It's probably hard to hold one as small as yours and trim his mails. Give him some large rocks to climb on, that'll wear them down. We only cut off the pointy tip of the nail, if you look carefully you'll be able to see the "quick" of the nail, which is the blood vessel. You don't want to cut back that far. There nothing more fun than chasing a scared bleeding lizard all over your house!!

 

[JohnMatthew]

It's amazing what 1 year of growth can do to those cute little things, especially since they hibernate almost half of the year .. I remember your tegu fought hibernation a bit longer than some of the others, how long did he end up going down for? Reguardless, he's a beast, looking great!

 

[redlizard5]

Nice pics
I just picked up a pair of Extremes from a fella that due to the economy lost his job and had to part with his animals .
I handle them everyday for about 30 mins each. the female is an 08 and the male is an 07 .So far they eat whatever i put in front of them roaches crickets superworms chicken,,,, hearts, livers and gizards. Fruit of all kinds. they dont miss a meal and are steadily growing and are taming out very well.
1.1 white headed tegu
1.o red tegu
2.1.3 crested geckos
1.1 egyptian uros
1.1 leos
0.1 res
0.0.1 western hog
5.0 corn snakes