I have a semi free roam 7 year old tegu. She has roam when I’m home (she wants to roam in the evening but sleeps during work hours). Her “den” is a 40 gal tank full of bedding, giant cardboard tubes and is heated.

She looks like she is being abused when she is in this tiny tank but she goes in there willingly. I close the lid when I’m at work to make sure nothing happens to her but she is sleeping those hours anyway.

Anyone else have a tegu that seems to not mind a smaller enclosure for their burrow?

So Karl's last shed b4 brumation his tail did not come off with the rest of his body. His hide is 80-90% humidity. I took him to the vet because hes starting brumation their opinion. It doesnt seem like its cutting off circulation but its hard to tell. They recommended taking him out and soaking him for 20 min a day and delaying brumation. Has anyone else seen this? Hes done eating so hes not going to grow and shed but it just will not detach from the skin underneath.

The only thing he’s eaten is really mealworms. I tried to feed him a pinky I was gonna try to feed him a grasshopper. I seen babies eating all type of stuff. I tried to feed him some fruits too. He didn’t like that.

I'm following advice to get a solar meter and I see that the Solarmeter 6.5r UVI meter is the commonly recommended unit. However, in shopping online it looks like most places are out of stock and some even say discontinued. I did find one being sold, albeit overpriced though. Probably because they do seem hard to find. Is this still the recommended device to buy? If this was discontinued, is there something newer/better on the market? Anyone know?

Goji is from Rose City Reptiles and came from the Legacy and Stormy pairing in 2025. He had a couple of his digits stolen by one of his clutch mates when he was a baby but it doesn’t seem to bother him at all. This guy has such a sweet personality and is growing up super fast!

Still need a name for my new girl but she's finally eating! I think she was too scared before but I got her to eat some mice yesterday and eggs today. She's settling well :))

Still recovering from surgery so my Sunday meal prep is for Tegus that might brumate any day. My wife convinced/told me to get a freezer for reptile food. Turkey, salmon, chicken gizzards, chicken liver, collard greens and blueberries. Yum

Hi! i’m building my tegu enclosure right now, i’m just curious anyone who has built one and used drylock, how many layers did you use or how many should i use atleast? thank you have a great day everyone!

Hello! I want a tegu in the future, so I’ve been researching. I was wondering if anyone here has any good resources or care guides I could look at. I’m also interested in knowing tips or tricks and good ethical breeders.
I’m interested to know how fast they grow as babies, and the best ways to set up a naturalistic enclosure as well. Enclosure recommendations are welcome too!

Id also just love to see pictures of your tegus, they’re adorable!!

I'm a fairly new Tegu mom. Can anyone advise on brumation with a tegu in a bioactive enclosure? Our male is 4.5 years old and was adopted in March. He's sleeping a lot, and we're fine with that, but we have a concern.

We reduced his food & adjusted husbandry. We got him cleaned out; however, he wakes several times a week & eats beetles (from mealworms a few mos. ago) that are still running around in the substrate.

I read that brumating with food in the gut can be harmful. We've been waking him every other day for a soak trying to get him to poop. Has anyone managed brumation safely with cleanup crew still in the enclosure? Any advice would be appreciated. (Posted on FB group also.) Thanks!

I was about to get this baby and the guy that I was about to get it from said it is probably about to go into brumate and I just wanted to know does anything look awful about it he said he usually eats like crazy, but it didn’t the last week and I just wanted to know is this around the time they stop eating?

So I looked a bit into them and they have veggies fruits and 85% whole prey. They also had different types of frozen meals. I can’t find an ingredient list so I was wondering if anyone else looked into this. Every time I google it it comes up with farmers dog and that’s not what this is. I guess it may be a new company or something. If these are good this is 55 bucks for a bulk box for me and it’s at my local pet store. I can’t ship well to my apartment and I’m worried about shipping and being stuck at work so it all goes to waste. If I can get food local I rather do that. It’ll be a lot cheaper than what I have been doing which is making bowls myself.
Does anyone else know if this company is safe for tegus or should I keep feeding them homemade mash and whole prey.

Also bonus: I upgraded steak to the rear trunk compartment of my Ford escape. As much as I don’t like animals being in the truck space he was becoming a handful in the passenger seat. I had to bring him to my old house because I left my first aid kit with my ex. He got a boo boo on his tail. All is well and it shouldn’t require a vet visit. I soaked it in betadine and added honey ointment before wrapping it in toilet paper and electrical tape since I ran out of cotton and paper tape. Still not sure how it happened but he was shedding and there was a piece of cone shaped shed on my floor when I came home so I can only assume he got it off on the baseboard he rubs against.

Tot from my unnamed girl again! Toesy has become quite bitey lately but I think its because she's been feeling better, her appetites definitely back in full

Watch him as he stands on his hind legs!

This is month 6 of owning her, she's grown exponentially but went down to brumate ~3 weeks ago. She's come out three times that I've seen. Her skin looks bad, right? Sagging in the middle. I'm not sure if I should try to pull her out of brumation. Her heat lamp has been off but is normally above that rock she's on.

ToT cosplay

I'm in the stages of potty training my Tegu and have gotten them successfully peeing where I want them to(in the bathtub) but they refuse to poop in there and much prefer the carpet in my bedroom. I am using the shallow hot water trick in the bathtub which gets him peeing right away but he will wait until he can get into my bedroom to poop often pooping right after I let him out of the bathtub. he poops in random spots in the bedroom too, I guess he likes the carpet? Any suggestions on how to get him to poop in the bathtub? maybe fake grass? Usually he signals me that he wants to poop and I let him in the bathtub right away.

My tegu looks like it is growing but slowly. It has gone from 2.1oz 2.5 weeks ago to about 2.7oz a few days ago. Is this a normal growth curve?

It was just moved into its new enclosure and buries itself a lot. I don't want it to brumate given its young age and small size.

She's so gorgeous. Still very scared of me. It's been maybe two weeks now. She's finally not extremely scared when I move around for the most part unless I'm moving erratically like getting dressed she still gets scared, but me just walking in and out or she's okay..and she's so smart she's ALWAYS watching me and my eyes. Everytime I look over she's looking right back at me. so right now my enclosure is on the floor. When I got my ackie like 10 years ago it was the same thing and I had a lot of quick progress in comfort around me when I moved my ackie enclosure up to a higher level in my room. Do you think it will benefit my tegus comfort level being higher up? Even tho they're very terrestrial?

Also you can really see the high white on her neck and chest!! And her blues. She's literally so pretty it's wild..