New member from Chile S.A

jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

hello , I found this site while looking for info on the red tegu, I lived in chile for 11 years and went to argentina every summer i also visited peru, bolivia, ecuador, brazil,colombia and a few other countries . I have to say that i never knew about these lizards until i moved back to california and saw one at an expo. I did some research and began talking to Bert alot and i purchased a red from him, he is a great man . The funny thing is he would reply to my emails in spanish . This site is amazing and the info here is so helpfull. I hope your site continues to grow.

gebris353 · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Hello and welcome hermano americano! I'm from Argentina, hope you can find any info you may need around here!

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jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

thank you , what part of spain are you from? I had a good friend from spain he was from barcelona, he lived in chile with his mom and dad . they were some very good people, its hard to meet geniune people like that. good values

gebris353 · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:

I'm not from Spain, I'm from Argentina, that's why I was saying "hermano americano", I'm from Mar del Plata, city of beaches and sea!

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jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

i didnt even realize that, I miss the parilla argentina the best bbq in the world. they have some places here to eat but its not the same

i0r · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forum hermano americano

If you wanna eat argentine bbq you need to go to "the knife", there are a few around in Miami.....all argentinian style

jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

wow alot of gente de argentina , i love it . i guess you cant have a forum about the tegu without los argentinos . Viva la patagonia

Tegster · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

Welcome Jose2187

You'll love this site!
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jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

thank you, it is a great site. I am so glad to find a site with specific info on tegus. Alot of sites really have no idea. This one is great and the people are really nice.

txrepgirl · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:20 pm Post subject:

Welcome jose2187 to the Tegu forum family.How long have you had your Tegu and how big is he/she and whats his/her name ? I hope you are going to enjoy this site as much as we have.If you don't mind me asking ( since you traveled around so much ) are you in the military ? take care.Please try to post some pics for us

.Thank you.

jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

well I purchased my tegu from Bert, but the tegu didnt make it he died during shpping. we had to wait till it warmed up a bit. Its from berts tegus from august. He has come out a few times recentley to drink water and th back to sleep. we named him "nando" short for fernando after one of the guys that survived the plane crash in chile and walked in the cold through the andes mountains to safety , since our tegu too survived the cold. I am not in the military my mother married a Chileno that had a buisness in Chile we went to live with him. It a a great experience every summer we would visit a different country.

txrepgirl · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the reply.I'm sooooo sorry to hear that the first Tegu didn't make it

.Wasn't there a heat pack in there for him to stay warm ? it's sad what happened to the guy( but thank God he survive )but I like the story about how you picked the name nando.Good luck with him.

jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

no heat pack it was like 85 degrees here but it was like 30 in alabama . I will send pictures soon once he wakes up for good.

txrepgirl · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

Thanks.I know how hard the waiting is.One of my arg. b/w Tegus is still sleeping,too.It's hard not wanting to dig him up

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jose2187 · Honored Member Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 261

i know people show pictures of the teus hey have, i go to local pet store and the have some reds that didn't hibernate and they are bigger everytime I go.