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Here he is checking out the new digs. While they're still juvies, and until I build an addition to the cage(which will first require us to move) he will be sharing home with our Arg. Red.

Here are the "cousins." They get along marvelously, even sleeping together from the first day they were introduced.

We have settled on the name "Bogota" for 'him'(?). AKA Bogie & Bo. The Arg Red is "Maggie" AKA "The Magster".

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Call me weak!!! I Can't HelpMyself.

Here he is again.

They look so cute together! Congrats on the two of them and awesome job on that habitat!!
Billy

Thanks for sharing! What a cutie! Glad to hear he & Maggie are getting along well and can share The Castle for a while.

I'm curious if you have problems with them knocking over all those potted plants? Mine knock over anything and everything while they're out freeroaming.

So far they have left them alone. Yesterday I happened to transplant them into a bit larger and heavier pots, and this morning I found the spanish moss tossed out of the larger one and spread all over, In fact you can see it in the close up pictures of Bogota. At least they seem to enjoy them.
MAP

hi. i have a couple questions. how did you go about introducing them to eachother? how do they get along? have there been any problems? i just got another arg. b&w hathcling to put in with my other one. thing is, when i put in the new one, the other one bit it after a while (not immediately, only after they smelled eachother for a minute or two). did he think he was food? it wasn't a hard, attacking bite, more of a slow, deliberate bite. for now, i've got them separated into smaller enclosures. perhaps my first tegu got territorial (he'd had the cage to himself for almost two weeks). what i'm thinking of doing for now is keeping them both apart for now, cleaning out the big cage, replacing all the substrate, eliminating all the smells, in the hopes that when i reintroduce them, they'll view it as "their" cage. but again, how should i go about introducing them? out of the cage at first? any help from anyone is appreciated, thanks.