Hi, all!
Been perusing the site for tips and info for a while now, and finally got around to making a profile! New to tegus, but not reptiles, though it has been a while*, and this will be my first large lizard. Been wanting a tegu for years, and finally getting to buy one...next year. Oh, well—more time to prepare!
I have a T100 on order from AP that should arrive sometime this summer, and plan to build out cement faux rock formations, and make it all bioactive (hence why I’m not getting the lizard until next hatching season—this is going to take a while to set up!). Pretty sure I’ve found the breeder I want to buy from, but now I’m not 100% certain which tegu I want! Argentine, for sure, but while I WAS set on a B&W, the breeder told me about his blue/red crosses, and those sound great, too! How do you pick just one?! Anyone have any thoughts on B&W vs. hybrids? If it helps, I’m not looking for anything flashy, or to breed; I’m just looking for a chill tegu with a friendly disposition that I can spoil rotten.
*Had a CWD some years ago, when hubby and I lived in an apartment. Sadly, the apartment’s exterminators disregarded my request with the office, the closed door, AND the sign on the door asking them to skip the room she was in, and treated the room. She passed shortly after, and I decided against owning another reptile until we bought a house, and thus had 100% control over the space and what was done in it. Bought a house with a system built into the interior of the walls that the exterminators treat, so that the poison never reaches the actual living space, so we never have a repeat of that tragedy. RIP Kimchi, my college study buddy. We will never forget your belly flops into salads, your sassy side-eye, or that time you jumped on my mother and scared the hell out of her.
Been perusing the site for tips and info for a while now, and finally got around to making a profile! New to tegus, but not reptiles, though it has been a while*, and this will be my first large lizard. Been wanting a tegu for years, and finally getting to buy one...next year. Oh, well—more time to prepare!
I have a T100 on order from AP that should arrive sometime this summer, and plan to build out cement faux rock formations, and make it all bioactive (hence why I’m not getting the lizard until next hatching season—this is going to take a while to set up!). Pretty sure I’ve found the breeder I want to buy from, but now I’m not 100% certain which tegu I want! Argentine, for sure, but while I WAS set on a B&W, the breeder told me about his blue/red crosses, and those sound great, too! How do you pick just one?! Anyone have any thoughts on B&W vs. hybrids? If it helps, I’m not looking for anything flashy, or to breed; I’m just looking for a chill tegu with a friendly disposition that I can spoil rotten.
*Had a CWD some years ago, when hubby and I lived in an apartment. Sadly, the apartment’s exterminators disregarded my request with the office, the closed door, AND the sign on the door asking them to skip the room she was in, and treated the room. She passed shortly after, and I decided against owning another reptile until we bought a house, and thus had 100% control over the space and what was done in it. Bought a house with a system built into the interior of the walls that the exterminators treat, so that the poison never reaches the actual living space, so we never have a repeat of that tragedy. RIP Kimchi, my college study buddy. We will never forget your belly flops into salads, your sassy side-eye, or that time you jumped on my mother and scared the hell out of her.
