I am only a week into my hybrid project, so I can't say much about tameness. They are @ 2 weeks old right now and very flighty...in hand they seem OK. Many years ago, I used to force myself on baby tegus and hold them everyday from day one for 5 min to "tame" them. This time, I am going to let them lose their fear of humans on their own and leave them alone for the most part until they get @ 15" as per Stella's advice. Even with my limited time I don't think they are psychotic. They are aggressive feeders, I already gave them a hole hopper mice (usually I cut it up), and they ripped it up and ate it...but their staple is crickets.
Albino Reds...yes...I am been thinking about them for sometime. I am mainly a boa morph guy and we are all chasing the reddest albino boa we can make...crossing blood boas, pastel boas, EBV red group boas, of of course Salmon boas...all in order to create more base red color and red saddles. So naturally, I am interested in crossing the albino blue tegu line into either reds or hybrids. This is all theory as I have not bred any tegus, I am just starting and learning.
I am told that reason that the hybrids crosses have been chance/accident because it is tricky to get them to go into season at the same time. Thus I think it will be easier to introduce albinos into hybrids and reds...though the outcome will only be 25% red blood.
Imagine a red tegu with the layer of melanin stripped away...pink maybe...awesome.
now everyone knows I am not a purist.
Dave
