wow ive already posted two help me posts lol, you guys must think Im special... so i posted last week about my tegu slowing down and figured out it was just start to hibernate, but i asked the breeder i got him from and he said i needed to heat up the cage right away and make sure it eats for at least another two weeks due to it being a baby, i believe its only a couple months old and is starting to look a little slender, do i leave it be or try to do what the breeder said? Im heating the tank as we speak.
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I need help quick ... pleez
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My Tegu hibernated from late October until mid May his first winter... he woke up healthy, grew like a weed and is now over 4' long and over 12 lbs...
Tegus mate in early summer, eggs develope over the summer and baby Tegus hatch in late summer. Then they go into hibernation in fall... So it's perfectly normal for a 9 month old Tegu to have spent over half it's life in hibernation.
My theory on healthy tegu keeping is to watch your animal and supply conditions that support it doing what it appears to want to do. Based on that theory, your Tegu wants to sleep, let it sleep...
Tegus mate in early summer, eggs develope over the summer and baby Tegus hatch in late summer. Then they go into hibernation in fall... So it's perfectly normal for a 9 month old Tegu to have spent over half it's life in hibernation.
My theory on healthy tegu keeping is to watch your animal and supply conditions that support it doing what it appears to want to do. Based on that theory, your Tegu wants to sleep, let it sleep...
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Both good pieces of advice!
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The only problem with heating him up and feeding him is if he does eat and then goes down for hibernation you have a major problem. Tegu should not hibernate with food in their systems. When they hibernate their GI tract shuts down and so anything remaining in the stomach or interstine will start to rot and that can kill ayoung tegu.
But like said earlier, young tegus will eat like crazy for a few months and then sleep for what seems like forever. Come spring they look skinny but again will start pounding away on food.
You can over food an if he takes it then its no big deal, but dont force him to eat anything. Good chance he knows what his doing.
But like said earlier, young tegus will eat like crazy for a few months and then sleep for what seems like forever. Come spring they look skinny but again will start pounding away on food.
You can over food an if he takes it then its no big deal, but dont force him to eat anything. Good chance he knows what his doing.
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You really can't force a tegu to do much, whether you want them to hibernate or not. They're going to do what's best for them because they KNOW better than we do. You can have a cage at 100 degrees and if that tegu wants to hibernate, it's going to hibernate. Have faith in nature, friend. She is good.
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I'm new at this too, I can't tell from 1 day to the next what she is going to do. I thought she was turning in a month ago but just moments ago she ate the biggest mouse I have ever fed her. She has completely changed her habbits, she was always up by 9 am and then gone by 4 pm, now she does not even show until late evening and she was still up this morning at 4 am. I put the mouse that she ate tonight, in last night but she would have nothing to do with it, tonight she slammed it like she had not eaten for a week. I agree with "Slideaboot" just be patient and have fun.
