The free-roaming tegu - Macgyver

Mikoh4792 · 08-15-14, 11:45 AM

kwhitlock · 08-15-14, 12:45 PM

Really dislike how this is personally. Like how he basically can roam anywhere and such but he isn't getting any kind of real environment. Like no time to dig or be a tegu in a decent set up.

Mikoh4792 · 08-15-14, 12:53 PM

Maybe he should have a soil/sand in a mini pool for him, with a heat lamp over it.

**Tsubaki** · 08-15-14, 02:14 PM

I don't like animals like that free roaming, especially if nothing has been adjusted for them. Someone i know has a burmese python free-roaming the upstairs of his house. I'm still suspecting one of the cats downstairs will go missing eventually.. The animal has had several colds already as well, only 1 heatlamp present for it.

Pirarucu · 08-15-14, 06:26 PM

I agree. An unmodified house with nothing but a heat lamp is not a suitable environment. For one thing, air conditioning keeps most homes at 40% humidity or less, much too low for a tegu. Then as mentioned there's the lack of an ability to dig.

aaron_cg · 08-15-14, 08:19 PM

A free roaming burm? That is insane! Couldn't even imagine that as a possibility.

Little Wise Owl · 08-15-14, 10:46 PM

I don't like the idea of free roaming a lizard that requires such high humidity and lives in burrows. I have no problem with letting them roam supervised with access to their enclosure but free roam always? Nope. And red tegus are notorious for being problem shedders.

And a free roaming burm is just insane and irresponsible, to me..

**Tsubaki** · 08-16-14, 04:45 AM

yea and to Imagen they have a 13 year old child in the house as well, they're nuts. They have been shunned off any (dutch) reptile forum, and yet they still believe what they're doing is perfectly fine. Its a 7 year old 12 foot albino burm btw.