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RE: Together?

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Posted by: laurarfl at Thu Jul 16 08:59:49 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by laurarfl ]  
   

I kept a male and female yearling pair together for about a year, but the male started picking at the female. They were too young to exhibit mating behavior, so I think it was territoriality or annoyance. They also skipped hibernation last winter while my single female hibernated. I ended up separating them.



The success stories I have heard regarding housing tegus together generally involve enclosures of 10 x 8 ft dimension. Even so, the male ends up being removed after breeding because the female defends her nest so aggressively. The female will even defend a destroyed nest after the eggs are removed.

   

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