Some pictures of the Tegus at Hectors Habitat taken recently. I hope to produce some great looking tegus this year, be sure to check for updates on my Facebook page and my website.
More Blue Tegu eggs from this hopefully het albino pair. They are both 66% het for albino, first time breeders going on 2 years old. Either way the babies should be pretty nice from this pairing. The female didn't lay many but it is a perfect looking clutch of 21 eggs.
Second clutch of blue tegu eggs so far for this year. I hope for a few more. This was a nice sized clutch at 28 eggs, and pretty deep hole. During this time it's pretty important to get them right away as they can dry out quickly. Also ants are very annoying and quick to go for the eggs especially if the female punctured any.
This is about 50 pounds of ground whole chicken mixed with Mazuri Croc diet. After feeding in the early afternoon, I noticed right before it rained all the tegus began to eat in all the cages at the same time. This was very odd as they all eat at different times throughout the day. I wonder what triggers them to eat at that specific moment. It's always interesting caring for these animals and I'm always learning.
Fighting off the dusk mosquitos I collected a very nice clutch of Hybrid tegu eggs. She was bred to a blue male. She laid 42 eggs but 4 were slugs.
I was very excited this morning to find one of my females had laid a beautiful clutch of 36 eggs. She has been working hard on the nest for a while now... Can't wait to see how these babies turn out.
Today's food truck special is thawed chicks and ground meat mix. I use this electric scooter to run from the house/garage to the back yard. I strapped an old milk crate to carry things onto the rear plate. It's good when several times a day I check on the tegus, especially now that breeding season has started. I canquickly run by the cages and see who's eating, mating, needs water changes, or just see who's out and about.
Did some work this weekend to complete some of the new outdoor tegu cages I was working on. I use welded wire for the flooring and roof. I then use 2x12 for the sides and to divide the cages. Also the left over 2x12 pieces I used to build the hides. Corrugated plastic roof panels are used for the walls. This setup seems to work quite well as they can't climb the sides but some light still passes through the tinted plastic. I moved in a few new residents, albino blue tegus.
As per customer requests I have created a waiting list subscription. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list please subscribe in the toolbar to the right and select which lizard you would like to subscribe to. For example blue albino babies, will be offered to first on the list before they are posted for sale online.
I bought this used acrylic tank off of Craigslist which is about 300 gallons. I think this will make a nice size swimming area for the large pair of caiman lizards. The cage area will be about 8 feet by 14 feet long and 6 foot tall. I leveled the ground and placed the tank on a sheet of foam to help even out the weight between the ground. I have bought a new pond filter and heater to install at the end. I will try to post updates as I make progress but I'm expanding the tegu cages as well so we'll see which one makes faster progress.
We have had a fairly mild winter compared to last year and some tegus didn't burrow down as deep as I would like with many coming out to bask on these cold days. The ones that haven't burrowed themselves down will be brought in to the garage tonight since by morning temperatures are expected to get down to 36 degrees. I have added additional hay, mulch and have covered the hide entrances but I'd rather not take the risk with these blue tegus.
These are indoor cages for juvy tegus held back for breeding I use in my garage. They are Tuff stock tanks 110 gallon about 4 foot by 3 foot by 2 foot. I made some wire tops for them. These are very easy to clean and when not in use I can stack them.
Whenever anything around the house is going to be destroyed or thrown out I always think "can I use that for the lizards somehow?" While moving some old railroad ties around my house I thought they would make great hides for the tegus. I used old fencing panels for the top, left over plywood, and the ties for the base. The hide itself is about 5'x3', with lots of mulch and hay and the red tegus took to it immediately. Once the weather cools down more and the tegus no longer come out of the hide during the day I will cover the hides with plastic and wait for spring to see them again.
I had some branches chopped, so I figured it would make great mulch bedding for the cages. Especially at this time of the year that they are starting to push the bedding in to their hides to prepare for brumation. I try to throw the mulch as close to the hide entrance as I can to make it easier for them to guide it in. I had some help from my mother-in-law, and we enjoyed the wonderful day. I will be adding some hay to all the cages very soon as well.
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Hector's Habitat
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