Thanks Ron St Pierre for your help, your idea of what happened is part of what happened here i think.

i talked to a friend who is at an honors college, taking animal pshycology, and she helped me figure out the most likely problem. First of all, about a month ago, they seemed to have woken up, and tried to dig out of their cage. I didnt understand why or how they would wake up so soon, but they went back to sleep. or so i thought. It didnt seem out of character, theyre always trying to escape, though why would they have woken up just to go back to sleep.(also, they did go into hibernation on their own in august, then they were moved indoors, but being kept at cool temperatures seemed to be the problem.



when they got up, they must not have gone back into hibernation, but just slept all the time without moving much, due to the 58 degree tempreature in the room, i wouldnt be able to tell if they were awake, not hibernating. Since they werent really hibernating, their systems needed water, and food, and energy. They appeared to be hibernating, though it turns out they must not have been.



i took out the big female, and gave her a little water through a baby bottle, and it livened her up some. i moved her to a box with a warm heatpad next to my bed now, so i can keep a close eye on her. She was close to death too, though at a glance at her, she looked just like she was in a very deep hibernation. She was even up and walking around yesterday, and her condition is improving.



dehydration seemed to be the culprit here. This was very unfortunate, and i would just like it to be a lesson to beginners or inexperienced keepers of some of the things that can go wrong, so others do not have to learn the hard way, and loose a loved pet. I am thinking about compiling all information on keeping tegus i can find, and creating a website totally devoted to the health and keeping of tegus.

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