New Tegu Adopted

[Two Bananas Marinade]

Well I went on Craigslist and found a tegu up for adoption. After a few emails we worked out a deal and I went and picked up a male tegu and an enclosure.
I have my work cut out for me. ha.

The Gu (male)is about 40" inches and seems to be in good health. as far as I know I am the 3rd owner. The cage is the problem.

6x3 but the door is hardware cloth. So humidity and temp are problems. I am figuring a way to remedy that situation....you know a little bondo and duct tape and paint should be it. kidding.

He doesn't seem to have any UVB. He was indoors so heat at his old place prob wasn't bad.

I gave him a rough set up and left him alone.

The old owner fed him in his cage so he is food aggressive, I will try and fix that too. I was thinking of putting him in Blenders cage ad then getting Blender a cage more to his size.
Eventually I will build an outdoor enclosure per Bobby's design with a few upgrades aka....hot tub, Blu ray and plasma, and small animal planet pay per view.

I don't have a name for him yet, although Rucker is one I am playing around with.

Oh yeah, the cage is chip board unsealed with no moisture damage. Previous owner had him for 6 months and he was around year and a half then.

 

[Adam87]

3rd owner hun sounds more like a used car instead of an animal. hopfully he doesnt have MBD from no UVB throw some pics up of him

 

[Two Bananas Marinade]

I take pics tomorrow or thurs. He looks good and he will have uvb light now and I will take him out on warm days.

 

[Adam87]

thats good its always a good feeling knowing your helping an animal that can't really help it self and its kinda funny cause reptiles in genral arn't that hard to take care of really you just gotta know what ur doing and it sickens me that people choose not to buy a uvb bulb that will prevent a huge problem well that my little Rant it angers me just as much as it does bobby thats why i always get kicked out of the mall pets stores haha

 

[Two Bananas Marinade]

LOL Rant away. Even my wife, who hates reptiles, gets mad when they are mistreated or neglected.

 

[Adam87]

its just good to kno that people like you and everyone on here are all about not just tegus but speaking for all animals i may just write a Rant post tonight im just in that mood man

 

[Two Bananas Marinade]

Might have a case of MBD. Not sure or if so how bad. He is now under uvb light and when he eats he will have calcium supplements. I saw a little prob with his mouth. Anyone have any ideas?
Sorry also about the poor quality I took the pics with my phone.

 

[Two Bananas Marinade]

Can anyone tell from the head shot if he may have a little mbd?

 

[Adam87]

hes a good looking tegu and no i couldnt tell u if i see it cause i've only seen the sevier cases of mbd but good luck with him even if he does have mbd there are some cases depending on what stage its at it can be revesred or not so bad

 

[Two Bananas Marinade]

I hung out with him today. I took my laptop into the bathroom and laid down. He wandered around for a while then pushed in between me and the wall and went to sleep.
The previous owner named him some weird name that I cant pronounce so I think I will name him Mumbo Jumbo.

 

[Marlene]

He's a cutie, I'm glad to know that someone took him in and is taking great care of him! Another great source of calcium would be phoenix worms. If you put a bunch of large phoenix worms in a bowl for him to eat, then that should help with any signs of MBD. You don't need to dust the phoenix worms with calcium either. I can't tell if he has any MBD from that picture, but if he does, then it must be in the early stages.