MY TEGU!

Anthony · Honored Member Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 151

Here's Toast... Thicker than my biceps!

Shrew · Member Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 63

he is a beast! so damn big...what kind of tegu is he? i didnt know golds could get that big...if thats what he is lol
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Xanxibar · Member Joined: Apr 09, 2007 Posts: 22

I agree with Shrew, Toast is a monster! Freaking HUGE. Looks like a gold or colombian... How old is (s)he?

Looks well fed

RainbowParty · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject:

Ya, buddy's looking a little chubby up there.

It's either a really dirty Argentine, or some kind of odd colouration of an Argentine. It's definitely not Columbian though.
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Anthony · Honored Member Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 151

He's an argentine. What's wrong with the color?

VARNYARD · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:47 am Post subject:

Anthony, it looks like a Argentine Black n White in shed, I have seen a few that had this color in shed before. I will also add, this is not a male but rather a female.

I will admit this, she is the fattest tegu I think I have ever seen. I do not think this is real healthy for them to be this much over weight. Many large snakes and monitors have died from obesity before, a diet might be in order for her.

Anthony · Honored Member Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 151

Varnyard, May I know how to tell it is female from this pic alone? Is it the jowls?

I will be reducing the food intake in september when 1 year is reached.

VARNYARD · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 7:17 am Post subject:

Anthony, yes I am looking at the jowls, a tegu of that length will show the jowls in males.

Nero557 · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 9:15 am Post subject:

Wow, that things a beast. I had an Arg with that yellowish/orangy color to it, but it was more on the bottom rather than all over. either way though, sweet tegu, and yeah, i'd put her on a diet too, i had a monitor that i fed way to much and hes probably got that tegu by quite a bit in stomach girth.... but he's on his diet now and he's slimmin down. I felt bad at first, but he'll live longer and healthier so that makes it worth it. Good luck.
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Anthony · Honored Member Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 151

Varnyard, you are 100% positive, just from this picture alone? I am not arguing with you just making sure. 100% positively female?

I ask because my iguana was considered a female for a while, he was already much bigger than what they said the SVL should have been when they show male characteristics. No jowls, not much of femoral pores, no bulge at the vent, no brain bumps, nothing. But then all of a sudden, bang, he became male. I had to change his name from Liv to Tyler. This happened when he was about almost double the SVL he was supposed to start showing male characteristics if he were a male.

Nero... the tegu will be on a diet. I want to give him a year from birthdate of eating before reducing the food, which will be this coming september. I have reduced his food intake already but I don't want to do anything really drastic until 1 year of age.

VARNYARD · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

I am looking at those two pictures, in them I do not see anything that would make me think it is a male. A tegu that big, if it is a male will have the jowls. This tegu is not showing these at all, now I realize it is young, but for the size alone it should have larger jowls.

Here is a picture of a young male, note the jowls:

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BWTeguNewb · Member Joined: Apr 24, 2007 Posts: 46

Lol is that a snake shed hanging in the background?

Nice Tegu as well.

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Alban_T · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:54 am Post subject:

only one year old?

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VARNYARD · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:

Tegus that do not hibernate can reach three feet in one year. She is a nice one!!