Éva's Tegus
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Hello I am Éva's Tegus, a beginner breeder looking to incorporate more research into the tegu community and learn as much as I can!
I have some interesting research articles to share with y'all. I was on the fence about all the plants in tegus' diets because I had heard research showed they could not even digest plant material. I believed this for years, but now I am a changed woman. In an interview of Ron St. Pierre, he said that tegus are mainly fruit eaters and are more accurately compared to a blue tongue skink in terms of the ecological niche they fill. This threw me through a loop and has changed the way I think about everything (tegus are everything lol).
But anyway I acquired every research article possible on the subject after I had this life crisis/revelation about tegu diets and I want to share some that are relevant to what I am talking about.
-The first covers the diet of tegus as an invasive population on Fernando de Noronha (archipelago thats part of Brazil). It states that 80% of their diet was plant material!
-The second looks at chemical composition of femoral pore secretion between captive males and wild males. It found that the males in the wild (which consumed more plant material than captive ones only fed meat products) had richer secretions which could show they are better at mating as wild specimens because of their diet.
Let me know if you want me to attach my annotations!
Female is Akasha, Super Blue Albino (some red/blue cross) by Nicolas Bourque (nbreptile)
Male is Goose, Ultra Purple 100% Het for albino by Eric Zukowski (Ezexotics) originally but acquired from Steven Atkins (Wildwood Reptiles)
-My goal is to produce high color albinos!
XOXO
Éva
I have some interesting research articles to share with y'all. I was on the fence about all the plants in tegus' diets because I had heard research showed they could not even digest plant material. I believed this for years, but now I am a changed woman. In an interview of Ron St. Pierre, he said that tegus are mainly fruit eaters and are more accurately compared to a blue tongue skink in terms of the ecological niche they fill. This threw me through a loop and has changed the way I think about everything (tegus are everything lol).
But anyway I acquired every research article possible on the subject after I had this life crisis/revelation about tegu diets and I want to share some that are relevant to what I am talking about.
-The first covers the diet of tegus as an invasive population on Fernando de Noronha (archipelago thats part of Brazil). It states that 80% of their diet was plant material!
-The second looks at chemical composition of femoral pore secretion between captive males and wild males. It found that the males in the wild (which consumed more plant material than captive ones only fed meat products) had richer secretions which could show they are better at mating as wild specimens because of their diet.
Let me know if you want me to attach my annotations!
Female is Akasha, Super Blue Albino (some red/blue cross) by Nicolas Bourque (nbreptile)
Male is Goose, Ultra Purple 100% Het for albino by Eric Zukowski (Ezexotics) originally but acquired from Steven Atkins (Wildwood Reptiles)
-My goal is to produce high color albinos!
XOXO
Éva
