m3s4
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What's up all?
So I just wanted to create an informative and educational guide that everyone with colombian tegu experience can chime in on.
A collective of information from everyone, if you will.
Argentinian tegus get plenty of attention and love throughout the forum and they're highly sought after, but what about colombians?
If you have had, still have or wish to get yourself a colombian tegu, this thread is for you. Here we can compile and conglomerate all of our experiences with these colorful, animated and often vocal tegus.
If you have information you'd like to share with the rest of us, let this be the place to do it.
The basics:
1) Feeding - As a juvenile, sub-adult and adult what do you feed your colombian? How often do you feed him? What type of supplements are supplied with the food you give your colombian?
2) Housing - what do you consider a good enclosure for your colombian? Do you have an aquarium? A cage? A temporary hide? A complete room? What are the dimensions of it? Humidity and temp levels? Basking temp? Night time temps? Does your colombian get to free-roam? What type of lamps and what wattage?
3) Taming Procedures - do you interact with your colombian or does he/she just lounge around in his cage with little or no contact? Do you regularly handle your columbian? What techniques, if any, have you used to calm and tame your colombian?
4) Problems - What types of problems, if any, have you encountered with your colombian? Does he bite? Hiss? Gape? Whip? Is he unruly? Unmanageable? Unwilling to trust you? Has he stopped eating? Does he eat too much? If your colombian has developed a sickness or come down with a bacteriological infection, how was he treated?
5) Success stories - while they are the most commonly seen tegus, in shops and as pets, colombians often get a bad wrap for being the most aggressive, most difficult and most problematic of all tegus. Do you find this to be true or are they truly even worthy of this stigma? Have you tamed/trained your colombian? If so, what has he learned ie; is he potty trained? Will he come when calling his name?
6) Anything else - anything you'd like the members of our forum to know about your colombian goes here.
I hope we can gather as much colombian information as possible here. That way, people can easily find one semi-goto, informative thread, lead by experienced colombian tegu owners.