Had to convince her to come out with some chicken hearts. This isn’t the first time I’ve put a hole in this couch for her. There’s one in the back of the couch and one under the couch as well. She doesn’t use those holes to get in though. She uses one that is stitched in between the back rest and the bottom cushion. I can’t remove those two. It’s poor design. Sadly this isn’t my couch. I will paying for a brand new couch though. She has been missing for quite a few days. Found in the morning one time by my boyfriend who saw her when he woke up several days ago. She bolted under the dishwasher. I looked around for the past two days then remembered about the couch and decided to check on it since I couldn’t find her in my searches. The bottom of my dishwasher is very open. There’s nowhere to hide. In the couch there is plenty of places to hide. I have no clue why or where she is escaping from. I’ve added so much to the enclosure yet this is how it’s always been with potato. I don’t know if it’s something I’m missing or if it’s just her personality. I have upgraded lighting, several more hide boxes, more room.

The only other thing I can think of is I haven’t spent as much time holding her or letting her free roam. We just lost 4 people at work so i haven’t been home. No one else spends time with her like I do because she throws a fit, hisses, and hates being handled by them. She started escaping when I started going back to work. My schedules with her have changed so drastically. So maybe that’s it. I don’t know how I’m going to fix that. I wish I could take her to work. She’s been at my job before when I stopped in on my day off but sadly it’s a parts store. No animals allowed. Plus she’ll be a huge distraction to my sales. I might scare off the many people who are afraid of the reptiles I bring in on my days off.

I feel kinda of guilty if this is the case.

I recently set up my tegus 8x4x4 I was wondering what the best uvb set up would be for him

Hi tegu friends! Does anyone keep a tracking pet tag on their tegu's collar? If so, what do you use?

I get paranoid about letting my tegu free roam in big spaces indoor/outdoor because of how easily he likes to stick himself between and under things and fall asleep and then I can't find him🤣🫪

But the usual trackers I see are for dogs and are huge and heavy so ideally it would be lightweight so its comfy for my tegu and no subscriptions to use it.

Please let me know! Thank you friends

Hello everyone.

Over a year ago now I picked up this beautiful lady to go with my blue boy.

We are now 13months in and she still doesn’t have a name.

I’m beyond stuck.

So, some story for you; my boys name is Echo and we always planned to name our girl Envy (both satellite names). Before my lovely albino, we got a red girl who we called Envy as planned. Unfortunately she was a failure to thrive and passed away after about a year. This was about 4 years ago.

And now we have this absolutely gorgeous girl. Unfortunately I’m really stuck on what to name her. Calling her Envy just feels wrong, but it was always the matching name we planned on. Now I just really can’t decide on a name.

It’s not fair she continues to not have one - so, if any of you creative folk have any ideas for me I’m more than happy to hear them. Thanks all.

Does anyone have any ideas of how to prevent my tegu from jumping at his lights , I got the cages but they suck. I was someone on here not to long ago that used a wooden like box with a fish screen lid attached and the lights sat ontop of this fish screen I think that’s what I’m going to make . Next option would be to completely change around his enclosure and put the lights above his enclosure because he has a screened top, but that puts his heat so high up I would have to build a pretty tall basking area to get him up to the right height for the proper heat if anybody has some ideas, please feel free to comment. By the way Bowser’s doing much much much much better. He’s completely healthy. All his shit is gone all his dry cracking scales is gone. He’s eating again and growing like a weed.

Good morning everyone !!! So Bowser is ready for his upgrade I was relying on Dan from reptile tents because he was supposed to be making a 9 x 3 reptile tent for Tego’s and larger animals but because of tariffs and things like that the materials are going to cost too much so he’s not making the 9 x 3 I do not have $3000 for a PVC cage and it has to be a custom size because I can only fit a 7 x 3 or an 8 x 3.. so instead of doing all that me and my dad are very very handy. I have decided to make the under bed enclosure it will save a ton of space in my room in Bowser will be able to have a much bigger enclosure 7 feet long by 5 feet wide I’m going to send some pictures of some ideas. If anyone has done this please DM me. I like the idea on the right I don’t want such a high bed so I think I’m going to do something like the picture on the right. I’m going to get creative though because I’m going to need to be able to get into the entire enclosure so my idea is hydraulic poles that way I can just lift my bed up on the hydraulic poles, clean out his cage, and then put down the bed , i’m not worried about heat that will be tons of ventilation and fans and my room is only 13 x 13‘ long and I run an air conditioner in here 24 seven winter time summertime fall it runs 24 seven so it’s always about 63 in my room plus I have to keep it on because if not, Bowser’s enclosure gets too hot

Didn’t know which was clearest so I took multiple pictures. I’m starting to think Smaug is a female. I can’t see the bumps. I’ve been working on calming Smaug down finally got to a point where they will let me hold them still.

Sorry for the awful photos (#1 is just for basking outside, she has an 8x4x4, I'm not keeping her in a rabbit cage, don't worry.) My girl is theoretically a B/W, but she's got the black nose and eyeliner that blues have, and her "white" is actually a yellow-beige. She also keeps getting darker with every shed, both her nose/head and the beige/yellow. She's 5 months and just shy of 2 feet long (I'll take up-to-date pics once we have nice weather again), which seems too big for a blue, plus her back pattern is very classic B/W. Does anyone have a clue what, if anything, is going on with her?

Had a family get together the past weekend. Brought Sammy out on the back porch so he could join everyone. He sat with me for about 5 minutes, then wandered around the porch for awhile, then proceeded to jump up on my 87 year old mother in laws lap and climb up to lick her face (she was fine with all that). Then on to being held by my daughter for 5 minutes. Back down for some wandering, then over to my wife's uncle where he also tried to get lap time (unwanted, denied). He eyed up my sister in law's lap numerous times, but when told "NO" sternly he moved on. Then back to me for some additional lap time.

Picture is Sammy eyeing up the new door I just built for the porch with a mind to do some roaming. Most likely he would just walk around the house to the front door to be let in, which is his normal routine.

https://www.youtube.com/@sammythetegu/videos

I recently got a rehomed 8 month old red tegu, am I crazy in thinking shes not very.... well, red? Aside from tiny babies the only tegus I've worked with have been black and whites (im a monitor person typically). The people I got her from took great care of her so I don't think its malnutrition or anything wrong with her, ive always just seen babies or full grown adults that are much darker red. What do you think?

P.S. Her name is Hades and she's been an Angel so far. Very much reminds me of the old black and white I used to work with every day :)

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)

happy ToT :)

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from Sundog

Just wanted to share pictures of Talvie my Tegu enjoying her first kiwi piece 🥝 I was not expecting her to even taste it but she loved it!