Wait a year and you'll wish you'd made it 6' lol. Nice thing about wood, you can always put an extension on! Nice looking lizard 
Argentinean Black & White Tegu
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SimonL;3265554; said:Wait a year and you'll wish you'd made it 6' lol. Nice thing about wood, you can always put an extension on! Nice looking lizard
I expect her to outgrow the cage by next summer and have her next one planned
The good thing about wood is it's cheap 
Jfitz;3265730; said:sweet man, too bad it lost its green
The green head is just a baby thing for them mine lost her green head about 2~3 weeks after I got her (so when she was 5~6 weeks old).
Ive seen pictures of an approx 20, 1.5 year old Tegu that still had the green head. The lizard was poorly cared for and the head remaining green was a sign of this. Honestly, the green on the head of a larger Tegu looked pretty goofy.
But it is adorable when they are babies
Lucifersam;3265736; said:
They grow on average 12 ~ 16 every six months that they are awake
Not everyones hibernates. I didnt do much at all to help/encourage her to hibernate, she just did Her cage was in my fishroom last winter at a constant 80*F. She just stopped eating and burrowed down in late October I didnt see her again until April
OMG she is just sooooo cute!!! she sounds like she got such a lovely temprament.
good luck with her, she is beautiful.
good luck with her, she is beautiful.
Unless you have her in a outdoor cage your lizard defenetly needs a basking ligth as well as a uv ligth for both termoregulate and sintetize vit D3, its a basic lizard care need, even in the tropics were temps are hot year round, all day time lizards go out and bask at the least during morning and more in the after noon to digest their food. Is she able to get out and bask in direct sun ligth when ever she wants? If not and if it is dependable if you are at home she defennetly needs extra heat, and of corse it must be controled by some termostatic way to avoid her to cook. And it is normal and good for her to hibernate.
coura;3267836; said:
Good tips/advice
Her cage has a 20 x 20 hole in the top covered with ¼ screen which allows direct sunlight in portions of the cage from around 10 am until around 4pm
She also has a UV light which I removed to take the photos. It actually sits in the cage as oppose to sitting on top as UV degrades quickly as it gets farther from the bulb.
As for temp, bare in mind she is an Argentinean native which is much farther south than most topical reptiles on the market. Since the summer has really heated up I have not seen her basking in direct sunlight at all during the day.
I gave tropical climate herps as a example to show that even at thouse temps they need to get hot when they want. In fact many temperate climate ones get hotter then tropical ones as they bask directly on rocks as oposite in the freshness of the leaf cover. Some bits of sun here and there wont cut the mustart. She needs both a hot spot and a cold area. In your case all you have to do is rebuild your enclosure to make it allmost all mesh to allow large parts to become readly avaible to insulate and other ones covered to cool down. In that case you wont need no uv ligth. The only basking ligth you will need is later on the year when temps cool down
Sweet , I want one. Unfortunatly I don't have the room or time. Maybe whenim done with college. How much did you pay for her, if you don't mind?
