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I have someone building me a custom tank for my Argentine B&W. It's going to be 6' long, 3' high, and 2' wide with areas for him to hide and climg on. This tank started to be built back in December, the guy who is building it is taking a very, very long time (longer then he said by months) and is having a lot of problems in his life that it making it take even longer. I've already paid for part of the tank so I can't back out of it. I'm hoping it'll be done by the end of April (fingers crossed).

My tegu is currently in a 4' long tank, but has outgrown it and is very stressed. He eats half of what he used to when he still fit, wakes up only to get warm and constantly try to break out of his tank. I need a temporary tank to give him enough space until I get the new one. What can I use? I was thinking of getting a vision tub and then just selling it once the other was done, but that's expensive.

I really need advice on what to do, please.

What about a rubbermaid tub? Or letting it free roam your room if that is possible? The other suggestion is the playpen gates for children.
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Tori C.
1.1 ball pythons (Bartleby and Ghia)
1.0 jungle carpet python (Turk)
1.0 anerythristic cornsnake (Vam)
1.0 mountain kingsnake (Fred)
0.1 gold tegu (Princess)
0.2 iguanas (Tripod and Longfellow)
1.1 bearded dragons (Sanchez and Revielle)
1.0 blue-tongue skink (Snider)
1.0 sulcatta tortoise (Sully)
0.1 rose-hair tarantula (Rosie)
and several fuzzy animals too.

If it were me, I'd change the dimensions of the custom cage to 6 x 3 deep x 2 high. Big tegus don't really climb and it would be easier to heat if it wasn't so high.

I've seen some pretty big Rubbermaid-type storage containers. As long as you can maintain the proper temps in the enclosure (110 basking area, 80-85 cool end), then anything you can find that's strong enough to hold the tegu should work. Some folks keep large monitors in cattle troughs.

If you didn't pay a large amount so far, it might be a good idea to cancel the cage job, reason being that you need the cage NOW, and check out the classifieds for a big used cage like a Vision or old Neodesha.

Tegus need room. You need a cage.

Bill

I can't change the dimesions, it's glass. Unfortunately I've already paid for part of it which went into the materials, I'd cancel if I could. It has height because my Tegu loves to climb, I don't know maybe he's weird. It's going to have a waterfall for humidity and plenty of room for burrowing.

I went to Home Depot today and found a 5' long, 4' high, 2 1/2' deep Rubbermaid deck storage unit. I think this might be good with some mesh over the top to hold the lights.

Thanks for the quick responses.