I recently got a rehomed 8 month old red tegu, am I crazy in thinking shes not very.... well, red? Aside from tiny babies the only tegus I've worked with have been black and whites (im a monitor person typically). The people I got her from took great care of her so I don't think its malnutrition or anything wrong with her, ive always just seen babies or full grown adults that are much darker red. What do you think?

P.S. Her name is Hades and she's been an Angel so far. Very much reminds me of the old black and white I used to work with every day :)

Had a family get together the past weekend. Brought Sammy out on the back porch so he could join everyone. He sat with me for about 5 minutes, then wandered around the porch for awhile, then proceeded to jump up on my 87 year old mother in laws lap and climb up to lick her face (she was fine with all that). Then on to being held by my daughter for 5 minutes. Back down for some wandering, then over to my wife's uncle where he also tried to get lap time (unwanted, denied). He eyed up my sister in law's lap numerous times, but when told "NO" sternly he moved on. Then back to me for some additional lap time.

Picture is Sammy eyeing up the new door I just built for the porch with a mind to do some roaming. Most likely he would just walk around the house to the front door to be let in, which is his normal routine.

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

got fat :(

Lol jokes aside the first pic of her is from the day I bought her (she proceeded to brumate for 6 months :/ she didn’t lose weight though so, I think she was just being weird) and after a few months of being out of brumation she’s eating like a horse and looks like a little potato.

She’s a bit on the heftier side but she’s growing quickly and needs the protein (she’s on a diet of ground chicken, ground turkey, sardine, banana, strawberry, blackberry, and blueberry. Mainly the meat though). She’s currently 1 year old!

(Yes she is missing part of her tail and yes that’s a bite mark on her back in the first pic, she was bitten on the back by a sibling and had her tail bitten off also by a sibling- not while in my care of course! Her tail hasn’t grown at all since so I don’t think she’s gonna be regenerating it sadly but it doesn’t seem to bother her. The bite mark healed after 2 sheds though so that’s good! I decided to adopt her instead of any of her siblings because I felt bad for her little tail lol)