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Several weeks ago Mid Michigan Reptile Rescue received it's largest intake of animals in a single operation...28 animals in all. These included 4 Cyclura iguanas, 9 Tegus, and 15 monitors. Most of these animals must have been spectacular at some point but show some recent neglect. It was quite a collection for one person and included some interesting species of monitors, i.e., Crocs, Bluetails, Peachthroats, and Timors to name a few.
My question concerns the Blue Tegus that we received. The female, to the best of my knowledge, appears to be a possible Blue/Red cross. Her color and pattern is just not typical of the Blue Tegus that I keep and have kept. I was hoping that maybe some experienced keepers here could offer their opinion. I've included photos of her and some of the other animals from this rescue.
The other Tegus are a male Blue, 3 adult male Argentine B/W's, and a group of 1.3 Reds. The male Red is humongous and a nice looking animal.

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that blue tail is amazing.

but tht blue female has an odd color to her thats for sure. looks like old shed. doesnt look like any crosses i have ever seen.

Jane,

That's a Blue x Red cross and a nice one at that. All of the crosses I've see don't have nearly that much red/orange to them.
That is a nice Croc Monitor and the male Red Tegu is awesome!

Take care

i've got a female tegu that was sold to me as a red whose coloration matches the one in your picture to practically a "t". the bluish white patches are even more blue and there is even a little less red. the person who i purchased it from was suspect that it was a red blue cross. my male is a red. i'm trying to breed them, and i figured it didn't matter if they were a cross or not. the red blue crosses at the blue tegu site (ron st.pierre i think) the photos of the crosses don't really look like mine or the one in the picture very much.

There's really no way to know for sure. But it looks like a cross to me. And since the previous owner kept both blues and reds, it certainly wouldn't be surprising if it were indeed a cross.

The crosses show a sort of maroon or purple mixed in with the blue color and the really nice crosses have more red showing through the blue areas.
I've been working with blues since they became available and have never seen a pure one look like the lizard in the picture or any that I've seen in person.
That one is not a pure Blue.

by the way these herps look to be in pretty good shape to me. some just look older. not much u can do about that.