The black and white one is just over two feet (havent measured in a little while, but they've been growing a lot and hes longer than two 12"×12" tiles) and the red is at least 18"
I'd expect her to get more red/orange and darker. The males usually get really red and the females not so much, but her color has surprised me because I saw another female red about her age that looked a lot different at a reptile expo
Is the Riann you're talking about the same guy that loves tegus a lot?
Because he seems like he is a great guy, but it also seems to not only be him, but the fault of also the employees he hired to not be more carefully looking after the animals.
So basically it's now been established that this is not shell rot, that it's most likely his organs and particularly the kidneys shutting down, that the husbandry from the shop he came from was hell, and that he will be dying very soon.
Is everything I said correct?
Yeah I guess I learned my lesson to definitely get my reptiles from a breeder. I never really paid much attention to the enclosures in the shop but I did notice a lot of the same species were kept together. My red tegu showed up severely dehydrated with some weird flaky shed and barely ate for...
The seller was underground reptiles. I had gotten both of my tegus from them, and although I had trouble with the second one, gave them the benefit of the doubt and got the tortoise from them. I think they wholesale everything but their tegus, maybe even some of the tegus. Ive been to the store...
The seller has a no refund and no return policy so I'd assume not :(
Excuse my stupidity (this is my first chelonian, but not my first reptile), but are shell rot and shell fungus synonymous?
He has shell rot with hemorrhaging, I've been doing the betadine treatments and he also has an oral antibiotic. This is his second round with it as he crashed again a few days ago and hasn't eaten since then. The betadine treatments havent been seeming to help much, if at all, and the oral...