My tegu

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Those boamaster cages are really nice.
I'm planning to get one when I get a tegu.
Definitely not cheap, but really nice cages!

Right now my Macaw is watching From Russia With Love and chuckling.
:ROFL:
 
well i found a 6x2x2 custom built setup on craigslist and i just rushed out there and picked it up. Guy was only 10 minutes down the road from me!

I scooped it up for only $60. Its no boamaster, but it should last me another year or so to pennypinch for the final setup. I may need to somehow make it more waterproof though... Other than that it looks pretty nice.
 
Tegus require much more humidity that a sulcata, 60-70% at least..
I don't know where you got that Tegu's live in dry grasslands. The jungles of Argentina are by no means dry grasslands.:confused:[/QUOTE]
Ok a few points for us to argument here;) First of the "jungles" of argentina ocuppy a much lesser degree of the country then grass lands and thouse are indeed dry grasslands,thats why they are called the "Pampas" , in the north they are tropical with the classsical yearly cicle of dry seazon/wet seazon and in the south in temperate climate style with hot summers and chilly winters. There is also subartic condicions in the deep south and deserts just out of curiosity.
The tegu that he has its a argentinean giant black and white tegu wich is able to cope with the temperate climate of the center of argentina and they just like sulcatas can relly on burrows for shelter and moist. Outside thouse burrows they cope with much less humity. The tegus that need both much more humity and year round heat are the columbian tegus as well as some forms of red tegus and blue tegus. Columbian tegus are true tropical lizards and need condicions similar to thouse of green iguanas. My point is that in a BIG OUTDOOR enclosure he COULD combine both animals with a good degree compabiltity likelyhood. The sulcata would need indoor shelter for the winter. Its also important to state that regarding humity most reptiles are very relatively forgiving. For example sulcatas are desert tortoises but on even a mild hot day they enjoy a big soak and even the most moist needed lizards need dry condicions during the nigth to sleep with very few excepticions. Sometimes we need to manipulate our captive condicions to suit the animals comoditys, not to fully simulate what they find in the wild
 
Love them all. Nice Tort and Tegu. I was gunna get a Red Tegu a while ago, but didn't have the space. Nice Female Eclectus too, I have a tempermental Quaker who just loves to yell and bite if you come within two feet ofhis Budgie buddy haah. I hope to get him another Quaker friend once I get a job. Mother wants a Sun Conure, but I made it quite aware that if she thought Piper the Quacker was loud the Conure would be about 15x that ahah.
 
Coura, great post!

I am not one to keep up with humidity like some people recommend. I rarely mist down my gu's tank unless he is shedding. I do soak him for 10 minutes twice a week. He sheds and eats perfectly.

However i do not think a 150lb tortoise and a 15lb tegu would make very good cell mates. It just doesnt sound right! haha
 
How old is the tort? I want to get one sometime, but I shy away for the fact it will live me out right..and idk where to go with him at 90 years old haa.
 
arghimapirate;3396688; said:
Eclectus arent know for being cuddly birds, but conures and macaws are supposed to be very loving and playful. Not much in the speech department for the macs though.QUOTE]

Macaws are what I would call cuddly birds either and the aratinga conures arent either. They are very energetic and playful birds that never stop going. My macaw would much rather be running around the place and wrestling with me then cuddling. But those few seconds a day she does I LOVE IT! B & G macaws are known to be clowns so dont expext too many cuddles from them. If you want a mac that is more to your description then I would recommend a red fronted macaw they are sometimes described as a cockatoo in a macaws body. They are harder to come by though too. Oh and beautiful eclectus! Good luck!
 
arghimapirate;3397861; said:
Coura, great post!

I am not one to keep up with humidity like some people recommend. I rarely mist down my gu's tank unless he is shedding. I do soak him for 10 minutes twice a week. He sheds and eats perfectly.

However i do not think a 150lb tortoise and a 15lb tegu would make very good cell mates. It just doesnt sound right! haha
Ya your probably rigth;) But I did saw and that is the reason I bring it up this combo in a zoo in spain, a few sulcatas and many tegus and they were in very good health. But in the side of causion it is probably best to avoid it. However if you could get your hands on a chilean or chaco tortoise Chelonodis chilensis, that would be great:D
 
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