important question

WyvernWyrm · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: important question

how often should a roughly 1 year old tegu be defecating? because tybalt only goes like once every 2 weeks which i find disturbing at the least. otherwise he seems perfectly healthy very active always digging and rearranging hes 34 inches long he eats like a monster and is very calm with people. i just dont get the defecation thing why so long between defecations?

VARNYARD · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject:

He should go more than that, at least once every three days or less, if you are feeding him everyday.

WyvernWyrm · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject:

so what do u think i could be doing wrong?

VARNYARD · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject:

I don't know, but he should be going more than once every two weeks. Does he look impacted or anything?

Lewb · New Member Joined: May 06, 2007 Posts: 6

Maybe too low basking temperatures?

Bill_S · Member Joined: Dec 10, 2004 Posts: 56

What and how deep is your substrate?

Reason I ask is that if you're using even a few inches of mulch you may not see his excrement if he's digging around. He might just be covering it up.

And ig youre substrate is deep - there might be a ton of crap hiding in there.

I see my tegu's dump every so often, but many times just due to his activity it gets covered with mulch and I know that I have to dig for it.

B.