2 tegus together?

greentriple · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

Rick posted a very comprehensive example of how to introduce multiple tegus into one enclosure. Just for information, tegu breeders often keep many tegus together in one enclosure. Also if you take a look at Rick's "social' video you can see many large tegus living together in what appears to be peace.

Texrepgirl - why are you waking Zeus? And why are you going to force feed him? If he's still hibernating he wont be interested in food. If you want to bring him out of hibernation there are various changes you can make to his lighting and temperature. If he's not hibernating and not eating you might consider taking him to a Vet to be sure he's ok. Tegus like any other animal can grow and develop at very different rates as compared on to the other. In any event, good luck.

txrepgirl · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:49 am Post subject:

Ricardo.I was very confused about the hibernating thing and I saw that a lot of the members Tegu's already woke up from there hibernation.So I pm Rick and asked him what I should do.He sad that it is ok to wake him up because it is the end of the hibernation season.The reason why I force fed him was because he was very skinny and weak.I think it was because some members sad that if you leave the lights on and keep the temps up he wouldn't hibernate.Wrong.He did started to hibernate and because the temps were up the metabolism kept going.So after about a week or so I turned of the lights.Don't worry I wouldn't do any thing to my babies that I have no idea of that's why I pm Rick.I did call my vet and told him about Zeus and he told me to force feed him so he gets some liquid in him( so he will not get dehydrated ) with the baby food,vitamin and calcium powder for nutrition.But I shouldn't feed him any solid food for a few days until he starts to eat/drink on his own.He is doing great now.I put him in Leonidas 55 gallon enclosure ( since he is still small ) and I put Leonidas in his new big enclosure.

greentriple · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

I should have known you'd do all the needed research, you're a great owner and mother.