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Shed issues with tegus. Tegus can have real bad sheds if not cared for or kept properly, tegus require very high humidity. In their native range, humidity is often 80% to 100%. That said, I find that with my tegus there is very little problems with shedding. Our humidity is also very high here in north Florida, it is often times around 90%, this in my opinion is why I see few problems at all with shedding. This also could be partly due to underground burrows where the humidity is very high due to the damp soil. I have heard that high quantities of fruit will help with the shedding process, however I did not see where this could be likely. I discussed this with my DMV, and we both agreed that the fruit content on feeding would have very little effect on promoting good sheds. The vitamin A, is not found to be high at all in fruits and vitamin C has no known assets to promote good shedding. The fruits with the higher oils are the citrus, however citrus fruits are not recommended as a source of food in tegus. I have some tegus that will not eat fruit at all; I have never seen shedding problems within these animals. Colombian tegus and the Blue tegus very rarely take fruit, I have noted that the shedding problems within these two groups are very few.