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So I bought a baby Black and white Tegu last night and am pretty excited about it. Little guy is only about 8 inches long but will grow in the 3 foot range for females and 4 foot for males. Talk about a guard dog :D Anyone else have some crazy reptiles they keep?
hail na
Use to have a baby american alligator and a 4ft diamond back rattle snake at the same time until my mom (landlord) found out and made some excuse that the 'home owners insurance would drop coverage if they knew'...pshh, i shouldve keep em! The guy i got em from use to own an exotic reptile store and i always got the hook up on cool shitt like that. I am a reptile lover, but due to the kids/family it just doesnt allow me to entertain my love them. Now i just have the norm animals: rabbit, cat...oh and A chicken. Or a cock as dsm might say.
thats what im talking about!
http://beargryllssurvivalseriesultim...11/taipan1.jpg
do you know what type of snake this is? I know a guy that has one, scares the shiit out of me.
black mamba?
Yep.
Nah it's an Inland Taipan. Its venom is the most toxic in the world
http://www.manbir-online.com/htm2/snake.27.htm
i had a 4 foot iguana that i won from the fair when i was younger
My daughter has a two foot (almost) bearded dragon. It makes me laugh some time.... when it sees you it will come running over to you just like a dog. Pretty friendly and will eat right out of your hand. it's name was Spike, then it started laying eggs, so she renamed it to something a little more girlie
1 ball Python, 2 bearded dragons, had 2, 4ft iguanas up to about a year ago, tarantula (I hate spiders, daughter likes them), rats (also the daughters). I'm sure I'm forgetting something. lol
^rats? no problem with rats.... i don't like the smell though, just like guinnee pigs and hamsters
I always wanted a water monitor. Tegu are cool too.
Water monitors are huge, savannahs are also nice. Mainly I picked up the tegu because of its intelligence and docile nature. Nice collection lovbyts.. wish I could have a python -.- but I CANNOT STAND rodents.
I had a black and white tegu for a while..... had to get rid of it when I bought a house with the wife. I used to buy frozen mice..... got quite expensive. He was fvckin awesome though lol...... glad I found a good home for him. The guy I knew was a reptile freak.....
~Haz~
Im gonna be feeding him ground turkey...eggs and left over chicken, beef from the cooking I do... I HATE RATS
I fed mine a Dobson fly once..... my friend caught it at a construction site and brought it over. The fvckin thing was HUGE..... wingspan was like 3" lol. I put it in the cage and my tegu watched it fly around..... once it landed it was game over. Lots of crunching but he got the whole thing down.
~Haz~
Don't let him bite you either lol..... fvckers have sharp teeth lololol! They're dosile for the most part..... not feeding them live mice/rats helps a lot. Once they get full grown..... they can take down baby to mid size rabbits like nothin. I never fed em live shit tho.....
~Haz~
That is one nasty looking fly ... I bet it was awesome watching the tegu eat. Mine runs around like a maniac trying to catch crickets.