Friendly tegu species & morphs for beginners

1# เตกูสีน้ำเงิน

สายพันธุ์: พระผู้ช่วยให้รอดของมารีย์
Difficulty: Easy
ขนาด: 2 ถึง 4 เท้า
Enclosure size: 6x3x3+
อาหาร: ทุกอย่าง

The blue tegu is a morph of the Argentine black and white tegu with all the benefits of this docile species, plus they tend to be much more compact in size.

The need for a smaller enclosure really brings the costs of setup, heating and lighting down, and makes cleaning and maintainance easier. Blue tegus are easily the best choice for first timers.

2# เตกูขาวดำ

สายพันธุ์: พระผู้ช่วยให้รอดของมารีย์
Difficulty: Easy
ขนาด: 3 ถึง 5 เท้า
Enclosure size: 8x4x4+
อาหาร: ทุกอย่าง

The Argentine black and white tegu is the most common species in the trade and universally appreciated for its friendliness and docile nature.

These lizards eat just about anything and tend to get quite big in size, so they need a lot of room. นอกเหนือจากที่, they are relatively low maintainance and rather friendly, so much that people often compared them to dogs.

3# Chacoan tegu

สายพันธุ์: พระผู้ช่วยให้รอดของมารีย์
Difficulty: Easy
ขนาด: 4 ถึง 5 เท้า
Enclosure size: 8x4x4+
อาหาร: ทุกอย่าง

The Chacoan white-headed tegu is another type of salvator merianae native to the Chaco region of Paraguay (and also known as “Paraguayan tegu”).

They are very similar to the black and white tegu both in looks and behavior, but they tend to grow even larger in size, with adult males averaging 5 เท้า.

Because they are the biggest of all tegu species, Chacoan white-headed tegus need bigger encloures with plenty of space, but are otherwise quite tame and easy to care for.

4# การกระทำสีแดง

สายพันธุ์: ผู้กอบกู้หน้าแดง
Difficulty: Moderate
ขนาด: 3 ถึง 5 เท้า
Enclosure size: 8x4x4+
อาหาร: ทุกอย่าง

The Red tegu is a separate species which shares much of the same characteristics of the Argentine tegu.

They can however get even larger in size and some people think they are more prone to experience shedding issues and skin problems, โดยเฉพาะในฤดูหนาว.

Red tegu lizards are somewhat more sensitive to drops in temperature and humidity and because of this they may need some extra attention compared to other species.

5# Colombian gold tegu

สายพันธุ์: ทูปินัมบิส เตกุยซิน
Difficulty: Moderate
ขนาด: 2 ถึง 3 เท้า
Enclosure size: 6x3x3+
อาหาร: Carnivore

Colombian tegus belong to the ทูปินัมบิส เตกุยซิน species, which is known to be more aggressive and challenging to tame tame compared to Argentine and Red tegu.

Colombian tegus can actually be tamed with a bit of patience, they do take more time. This may also be due to the fact that most specimens available in the trade are caught from the wild and not hatched by breeders.

Once tamed, they are actually quite similar to other tegus in terms of behavior, they are however much smaller in size and have a mainly carnivorous diet (only 10% of fruits and vegetables).