u/throwtoss163

Hi friends, I have a ~3ish year old rescue tegu named Blizzard. Allegedly he was found abandoned in a basement, then hopped houses for a bit, and I’ve had him for just under six months. We go on walks, he likes the shower, and he tolerates me lol. He doesn’t seem to give a crap about me, other people, birds in the yard when we’re outside, kids, etc. He’s super chill and the guy I got him from said the same thing.

Recently we had to move cross country, he spent 30 hours in a car with me and slept in some hotels. He has had his tank set up at my new place for about a month, and his tank door is now always open so he can free roam in the reptile room (office) or the rest of the apartment when i’m home. He knows where his “home” is, so he will come out, stroll around, and make his way back to his heat and hide in his tank for bed time. I thought we were doing well.

Recently he’s been sleeping a lot. If I don’t wake him up, he can be in his hide for 2-3 days sometimes without coming out. If I wake him up and take him out, he’ll walk around, smell things, sleep under the couch, etc, but I have to wake him up to do that.

Today we had a really bad day with feeding. He got riled up when I had a bag of crickets to go feed my skink (he usually doesn’t care) and I had to close his tank door. He kept trying to ram it and dig to get out. I got his reptilink and I used my tongs to feed him and he charged at it super fast and bit it so hard the link kind of exploded. I then had a smaller link one of my other guys didn’t eat, so I gave him that and he completely marred my silicon tongs trying to eat it. He’s usually so gentle when taking food and this was really out of the ordinary for him.

I took him to the vet ~3 months ago and he got a completely clean bill of health. When I get back from work travel I may take him again to see if he’s still good.

Do you ever have ‘bad days’ with your tegus? Is it common for them to be so lazy? I feel like all the ones I see on this sub are so active. Blizzard would sleep all day if I let him. He eats well, he poops well, he sheds well… maybe he’s still just adjusting to his new home?

He’s never been aggressive before the past week or so, and today was the worst yet. Maybe “aggressive” is the wrong word but I don’t want to find out. I’m scared of him hurting me or other people if he decides to do this when he’s out of his tank.

Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post and thank you for reading. He’s my baby and i love him so much and i just want him to be happy🫶

I swear he can move faster than that… probably.

this is probably such a silly question but my LGS had this art in their bathroom and my buddy said it was maybe the 2015 planeswalkers art? if i look for it online (or anything similar) i can’t really find anything. does anyone have any leads? doesn’t have to be original or anything i just really love the designs. thank you!!

New to all this - how far off does the stamp have to be for it to be considered a minor misprint and have a premium? Just curious as, again, I’m new. Thanks :)

At what point do you worry that you haven’t seen your gu poo?

He had a piece of salmon on Wednesday and a quail on Friday and I haven’t seen him poop. He seems kinda sleepy and not moving very fast. He still moves around the apartment a lot but not with his normal curiosity. Before Wednesday he hadn’t eaten in 6ish days due to us being out of town (and frankly he could lose a little weight) so maybe he’s just low on energy or didn’t have anything in his system to move out?

I might take him to the vet later today if he doesn’t go, but i wanted to know if I was freaking out over nothing. Pic of him yesterday in the sun for tax. Thanks!!

I got these in September 2024. They were pierced by a reputable piercer with a straight titanium stud. They started healing with those for about eight months and the I think I caught them in something and they started acting up. They didn’t get downsized.

They got so swollen that the only thing I had on me that would seemingly not be too small was a ring. I put in two rings (nickel) and then seemed to get better, but they 3ish months later they got tender again. I realized I had a nickel allergy and so in February of this year I had them changed to full titanium rings, seen here. At the time I asked the piercer if I needed to go back to studs and she said with how inflamed they were it would be better to try and get the inflammation down with rings since that’s what I had in.

They almost instantly felt better and they still feel way better than they did before switching to titanium, but they are still tender and crusty/flaky and sometimes have fluid come out. I can sleep on that side about half of the time if I have my head in a very specific way.

Should I go back to studs? Are they just rejecting and there’s nothing I can do? Should I take them out? Or do they just need more time to heal and I have to be more patient?

I cleaned them with saline rinse 2x per day after getting them for a month or two and then switched to 1x per day. There was probably 6ish months where i didn’t clean them after that. After having the jewelry changed I went back to 2x per day but that seemed to irritate them more so I went down to 1x per day. Now I just do my best to not touch them or bother them at all and only clean them when they seem to really need it because cleaning them seems to make them more tender, even when I’m just spraying on the solution (???)

Thanks in advance! I think my ear is super red in that last photo because I was mashing it trying to get the picture, but it’s generally more red than my other ear almost all the time.