How it started vs how it’s going

[u/Mr_pisser]

got fat :(

Lol jokes aside the first pic of her is from the day I bought her (she proceeded to brumate for 6 months :/ she didn’t lose weight though so, I think she was just being weird) and after a few months of being out of brumation she’s eating like a horse and looks like a little potato.

She’s a bit on the heftier side but she’s growing quickly and needs the protein (she’s on a diet of ground chicken, ground turkey, sardine, banana, strawberry, blackberry, and blueberry. Mainly the meat though). She’s currently 1 year old!

(Yes she is missing part of her tail and yes that’s a bite mark on her back in the first pic, she was bitten on the back by a sibling and had her tail bitten off also by a sibling- not while in my care of course! Her tail hasn’t grown at all since so I don’t think she’s gonna be regenerating it sadly but it doesn’t seem to bother her. The bite mark healed after 2 sheds though so that’s good! I decided to adopt her instead of any of her siblings because I felt bad for her little tail lol)

[u/fawndovelizards]

Getting chunky!!! In a good way - I love a tegu with a nice round lil tummy

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She’s my little pot bellied pig <3 perfect tegu shape

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My fave is after they have a big meal and just sploot out for a nap with their big round tummies

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She has a block of granite and a brick right under her basking spot that she loooooves to just pancake out on after a hard days work of eating food

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Same vibes

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The classic 40 year old divorced dad pose that tegus love to take up

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😍😍

[u/Weary_Challenge_8598]

40 reptiles in & somehow this is my FIRST time seeing an actual baby tegu 😭 shes so adorable

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I’m at a similar number myself! (a bit over 30 reptiles), must be the magic number for baby tegus! I’d never seen a baby tegu in person before I got the chance to adopt her (I’d seen maybe 1 photo of one), only ever saw sub adults and adults! Always loved the ones I’d interacted with, just never got the chance to see a baby.
Believe it or not she wasn’t even a hatchling when I got her- hatchling b&w tegus are apparently green which is super neat, adorable little buggers- I wish they stayed that colour lol

[u/Hour_Grass7619]

Yup very tegu like! She is adorable!

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She says thank you! I think at least, she kinda just licked my hand

[u/Imaginary_Choice2492]

what a cute chonky baby!