He has awakened!!!

[sandtopaz]

Diego has been down for about 5 months and he finally came out today. We have an outdoor enclosure, 12 x 6.5. After he went down, when we were about to get into the 20's, I moved cypress mulch in front of his burrow hole, put a red heat lamp on a timer and covered his burrow with a blanket and tarp. The inside of his burrow is about 1.5 feet below grade and filled with cypress mulch.
I was worried for a little while but monitored the temp in his burrow and outside the enclosure. On some days, I would get almost a 30 degree difference.
I was happy to see him today!!!

 

[Red Earth Exotics]

sweet looking outdoor enclosure and tegu! glad he's up and about.

 

[Beasty]

Cool! Where do you guys live?

 

[sandtopaz]

Thanks Red Earth....

Beasty... Northern Florida..

 

[ashesc212]

Nice looking tegu!

 

[Tegu Tank]

thats a nice tegu more pics plz :app

 

[sandtopaz]

He ate some chicken gizzards but no kiwi the first day. I have some grapes out there today and I am not sure if he touched them. I am taking a slow approach to the food because it appears he is more interested in soaking up the rays.

A few more pics, as requested....

 

[LouDog760]

Nice pin!

 

[Beasty]

Nice enclosure! Wish I could do something like that.

 

[Dom3rd]

Wow that enclosure is awesome...man i really need to buy a house so that i can do that!!!!