NEW GU!!!!!

[Adam87]

I just got my very first Argentine black and white Tegu from Bobby hill Im going to name him Buddy he seems really tame but alittle scared im sure from his long trip up the east coast heres some pictures of him

 

[isdrake]

Congratulations.

 

[themedic]

nice tegu kinda looks like mine! haha.

ya, he will probably be a bit jumpy best thing to combat that is just to hold him everyday i try to handle mine atleast an hour everyday but they are still babies!

 

[Adam87]

is my tegu in hibernation cause i got him 3days ago from bobby and hes only had a few bites to eat and drinking water alot and hes burrowing so i guess my question is put a little food out just incase he wants to eat cause he had one large cricket and a few bites of apples and ground beef but most of the time he either basks and walks around then burrows i would just like to know if i should leave him alone or could i stand handle him

and for temps and humminity ambian is veries from 80 to 85 depends if i have my space heater on in my room humminity is 60% to 70% i have a 10.0 uvb bulb and 150 watt light that gets to 110 115 at the spot and hes in a 6x3x3 just fyi

 

[themedic]

well mines gus are in hibernation i got them about 2 weeks ago.

 

[txrepgirl]

Congrats on your new Tegu. It's normal for the to be shy, scard and burrow a lot when they are in a new home. The good thing is that he is eating and drinking alot. Since he is still comming out to bask I would still try to feed him. But not inside the enclosure. If you feed a Tegu inside the enclosure there is a big chance that the food gets on the mulch and he eats the mulch and gets impacted. Trust me I learn the hard way when I first got my first Tegu a few years back and didn't know much about them. He also could get cage agressive. I recommend putting some food inside a big bin, get the Tegu and then bring the Tegu to the food. If he doesn't come out to bask at all for a while then I would turn off all the lights. Because he wants to hibernate. I got two Tegus from Bobby ( one last September and one in October ). I saw both of them a few times and then they went into hibernation.

 

[lazyjr52]

Congrats! He looks a little sleepy in those pics :grno

 

[Adam87]

thats because he just got out of the shipping box he had a long trip