Hello everybody,
I am looking for some advices, since this will be my first "tegu experience". I tried to write to teguterra and to underground reptiles but I had no response... So I am so glad that I found this forum.
I'm considering to have one of these reptiles (argentinian one). I always had snakes (morelia spilota, boa contrictor imperator...), eublepharis, chameleons, but I want to start breeding these beautiful reptiles.
I'm from Sicily. Here the weather is quite hot and humid (75-85%) most of the time. In summer we have from 90 to 96 degrees or even 100/105 in July/August.
Winter is very short, but is very humid and sometimes (very rare) temperatures might go under 50.
I am planning to have my tegu outdoor, I suppose this is the proper way, considering the weather.
Some questions about temperature and heating:
1. In summer is sunlight enough? I mean, and that's it? Not even a ceramic bulb during the night thermostatated at 68? (Just in case the temperature goes down during the night) ; not even a spot to give them a hotter little place?
Housing it in a outdoor cage, are uvb and spot and ceramic necessary in summer?
2. In winter it's a different ball game. I would like to leave the tegu in the outdoor terrarium, but I red a ceramic bulb is necessary. At which temperature shall I set the thermostate? Maybe so that the temperature does not go under 50? (Here in Sicily it is very very very rare that temperatures go under 45, maybe for three or four days in January)
Are uvb and spot lamps necessary in winter?
3. Do they bite and damage plastic nets to escape?
4. I red reptiles heat cables are wrong. Because if you place them under the hot part of the cage the tegu will not demonstrate will to come out of the hot hide. Is this true? Do these reptiles need hot source only from above?
I am building an outdoor terrarium. 6 feet X 3 feet X 3 feet height.
I attach some photos (Of course it is still "Work in progress"). It would be precious to have some opinions from you. There will be just one housed in, because the shape and the measure I think is too small for a couple... do you agree?
The left lamp that you see is a ceramic and the right one is a spot. Just wanted to simulate... Are they placed properly?
For now I'm ok I think... I might sound boring, but I want animals to be super ok, and the best way I learned in these years on how to make them healthful is to learn from more expert people and breeders..
Thank you to anyone of you that would help me.
(Sorry if my english is not perfect)
best wishes,
Giovanni
I am looking for some advices, since this will be my first "tegu experience". I tried to write to teguterra and to underground reptiles but I had no response... So I am so glad that I found this forum.
I'm considering to have one of these reptiles (argentinian one). I always had snakes (morelia spilota, boa contrictor imperator...), eublepharis, chameleons, but I want to start breeding these beautiful reptiles.
I'm from Sicily. Here the weather is quite hot and humid (75-85%) most of the time. In summer we have from 90 to 96 degrees or even 100/105 in July/August.
Winter is very short, but is very humid and sometimes (very rare) temperatures might go under 50.
I am planning to have my tegu outdoor, I suppose this is the proper way, considering the weather.
Some questions about temperature and heating:
1. In summer is sunlight enough? I mean, and that's it? Not even a ceramic bulb during the night thermostatated at 68? (Just in case the temperature goes down during the night) ; not even a spot to give them a hotter little place?
Housing it in a outdoor cage, are uvb and spot and ceramic necessary in summer?
2. In winter it's a different ball game. I would like to leave the tegu in the outdoor terrarium, but I red a ceramic bulb is necessary. At which temperature shall I set the thermostate? Maybe so that the temperature does not go under 50? (Here in Sicily it is very very very rare that temperatures go under 45, maybe for three or four days in January)
Are uvb and spot lamps necessary in winter?
3. Do they bite and damage plastic nets to escape?
4. I red reptiles heat cables are wrong. Because if you place them under the hot part of the cage the tegu will not demonstrate will to come out of the hot hide. Is this true? Do these reptiles need hot source only from above?
I am building an outdoor terrarium. 6 feet X 3 feet X 3 feet height.
I attach some photos (Of course it is still "Work in progress"). It would be precious to have some opinions from you. There will be just one housed in, because the shape and the measure I think is too small for a couple... do you agree?
The left lamp that you see is a ceramic and the right one is a spot. Just wanted to simulate... Are they placed properly?
For now I'm ok I think... I might sound boring, but I want animals to be super ok, and the best way I learned in these years on how to make them healthful is to learn from more expert people and breeders..
Thank you to anyone of you that would help me.
(Sorry if my english is not perfect)
best wishes,
Giovanni