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Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry for your loss. Over the years, I've read several threads about tegus becoming impacted from cypress mulch. I began wondering why so many people used it because it seemed like impaction was becoming common with it. When I picked up my 'gu from TeguTopia, the breeder told me about how one of her males ingested (and she didn't know how because he wasn't fed on the stuff) and passed a GIANT piece of cypress. She then told me that most bags of cypress mulch aren't 100% and that they're mixes. It apparently took Johnny of TeguTerra months to finally squeeze out from the company what was mixed in with the cypress he was using. Apparently it was pine.

So I'm never going to be using Cypress. I'm using coconut husk chips and sphagnum moss right now but will be switching to either a soil/sand mixture or ecoearth mixture with possibly wheat hay (the breeder used it for adults because it doesn't mould).

<blockquote data-quote="Little Wise Owl" data-source="post: 123283" data-attributes="member: 156">Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry for your loss. Over the years, I've read several threads about tegus becoming impacted from cypress mulch. I began wondering why so many people used it because it seemed like impaction was becoming common with it. When I picked up my 'gu from TeguTopia, the breeder told me about how one of her males ingested (and she didn't know how because he wasn't fed on the stuff) and passed a GIANT piece of cypress. She then told me that most bags of cypress mulch aren't 100% and that they're mixes. It apparently took Johnny of TeguTerra months to finally squeeze out from the company what was mixed in with the cypress he was using. Apparently it was pine.So I'm never going to be using Cypress. I'm using coconut husk chips and sphagnum moss right now but will be switching to either a soil/sand mixture or ecoearth mixture with possibly wheat hay (the breeder used it for adults because it doesn't mould).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Little Wise Owl, post: 123283, member: 156"] Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry for your loss. Over the years, I've read several threads about tegus becoming impacted from cypress mulch. I began wondering why so many people used it because it seemed like impaction was becoming common with it. When I picked up my 'gu from TeguTopia, the breeder told me about how one of her males ingested (and she didn't know how because he wasn't fed on the stuff) and passed a GIANT piece of cypress. She then told me that most bags of cypress mulch aren't 100% and that they're mixes. It apparently took Johnny of TeguTerra months to finally squeeze out from the company what was mixed in with the cypress he was using. Apparently it was pine. So I'm never going to be using Cypress. I'm using coconut husk chips and sphagnum moss right now but will be switching to either a soil/sand mixture or ecoearth mixture with possibly wheat hay (the breeder used it for adults because it doesn't mould). [/QUOTE]

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