Last picture is my bite..

So here’s what happened. Normally when I get home from work steak comes out from the pillows of my couch. I Give him a pet. Then I go to the fridge and get everything to set up steaks dinner. Welp today I got home after a long day work and took a nap. No pet. No dinner. Just plopped in bed as he watched me walk by the couch. Welp that’s against steaks routine. I had my hand dangling off my bed and steak jumped up and caught my thumb and hung on. He shook his head a bit before I finally got him to let go. I noticed he’s been going through a big growth spurt. Why this late into the year I have no idea. So he’s been hungry more and I’ve upgraded his meal portion otherwise my boots get the nips. His bite woke me up from my nap. I took 2 hours to long after getting home to feed him.

So I’ve learned don’t skip his routine.. I’ve also am going to go back to target training and tong feeding rather than bowl feeding. He has learned that my hands hold the bowl and thus my hands are food. I’m glad he’s still small. This hurt quite a bit. When I hold him his tail hangs down to the middle of my thigh. I’m only 5’. I know this lizard will get almost as big as me. Somtimes I underestimate that. Well today I will remember his training since I don’t want the 4ft lizard to take my thumb off.

Now that I fed him he’s back to his cheerful snuggly self. I won’t ever ignore him anymore when he comes out of the couch to greet me at the door. Naps can wait. Routine comes first. Dinner comes first. That’s how it’s always been and that’s how it will always be from now on.

I’m looking to get my first tegu but I can’t seem to find a breeder here in Canada. Do you know of any or of any American breeders that ship to Canada?

Goose is now allowing me to touch him without him being jumpy or whipping me. I’ve worked with him EVERYDAY and it’s so nice to see progress.

EDIT: forgot to add that im not the owner in this vid lol! Its from “lizard.life.archi” on tiktok

Is it like a mating thing or a food thing? Im really curious, thanks in advance!

Fenrir is obsessed with jumping to the planter this week. He has not yet succeeded. He can easily climb into the planter but that's insufficiently dramatic.

So i’m having trouble guessing if my black and white tegu is going into brumation and need some help figuring out if now’s a good time to stop feeding her. Before this she was always out and would be up and out till almost 11 every night and whenever I would get home, which is normally 5-7. But these past 4 days when I get home she’s no longer out and doesn’t come back out for the rest of the night. Today I came home at 3 PM and I found her out basking in her spot. Would it be safe to assume she’s going into brumation and to stop feeding her?

I purchased a 1 foot juvenile last week and I’m wondering about this whole Brumation process I live in the bootheel of Missouri so it’s still around 90 during the days and nights here due to the humidity my new buddy is usually underground in his tank and he usually comes out once a day when he does he basks and then retreats underground again he will take food but only insects not fruit. I just don’t know if I should be feeding him right now because I don’t know if it will make him sick or not. I’m still leaving the lights on during the day. I’ve watched videos but none of them say if should feed him, if I should dig him up to feed him, or if I should be leaving the lights on. Any help would be appreciated I just want my little guy to succeed thanks.

I do not own a tegu, but would like to someday, most likely in the distant future as I would not consider myself experienced enough with reptiles at this time. I was looking at the reptifiles page for tegus out of curiosity, however, and saw this.

I know many captive animals, reptiles included, will attempt to mount their handlers, but is a tegu actually capable of making the distinction between a male and female human? Why would they do this since the distinction doesn’t matter? Is this at all correct? I am a woman so I would definitely like to be aware of this so that one day I am fully prepared for what I might be dealing with.

We've had our little hatchling for a little under a month now and I've noticed that there looks to be necrotic tissue on the tail tip. I plan on going to the vet tomorrow to see what they say. But I wanted to check in here to see how worried I should be before I go.

I've had this guy for about 5 days - and getting it to eat has been challenging.

So far I've had him eat:
- one horned worm caterpillar thing
- two super worms
- one pinkie mouse
- some ground turkey mixed with a bit of egg yolk (a few mouthfuls)
- and a bit of collard greens and a blueberry

He refuses dubia roaches for some reason. He is about 10-12 inches long and I guess probably 1-2 months old.

Is this enough food for him at this point? I am new to tegus, but an experienced herp keeper. What can I do to get him to eat more?

Thanks!

I unfortunately injured my foot right at the start of summer, so our summer plans didn’t exactly go to plan. But we’ve been spending a lot of time outside this summer, just hanging out!

Picked up a theropod footprint at my local fossil show for this! Lovely to see the similarities

Remember that tegu i said I'd be rescuing soon? She's coming home next tuesday! I got the store to put a sold sign on her prematurely since I now have a date I'll be coming to pick her up.

Medical update: Toes is still doing well and back to her spicy self. We did our second round of bloodwork on Friday and should be getting results tomorrow or the day after. It'll tell us if the anemia is an underlying condition she has or due to her diet. She now weighs 1.01kg! (A whole .01kg heavier from her visit 2 weeks ago)

Also looking for veggie n meat reccs to try for my girls so drop any reccs your gus tend to enjoy in the comments please!

Sound on (feat. Toto)

Ok, Ok, I know I already used this same pic last season, not up to date, Sammy a lot bigger now, but with him starting his nap 4 days ago I gots nuthin' ...

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

New addition to the family!

Has been eating mix of pinkies, Dubia roaches, collard greens and ground turkey. Still a bit skittish and doesn't like to eat when I am there. He has also eaten a few horned worms.

This is just a temporary enclosure while I build his new home.

Eating powdered donut dubia