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What does everyone here use for their tegus to allow them to burrow?

Also, what arre the safe minimum and maximum temps for tegus?

I use a mixture of 50% wood mulch mix (mostly redwood because that's whats avalible here) and 50% beast-a-bed or other coconut husk like material, this helps keep up humidity and holds a burrow very nicely.

As for the min and max temps it varys from species to speices, as so from individual animal, some like it hotter then the recomened temp and some like it cooler. I know with blues they like a reg temp of 85 in the basking with a 115 spot, and it tends to drop to around 70-75 at night... lower in the winter. someone else will have to add on for the Colubinan, Arg B&W and the Reds as i don't know too much on them.
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Leo Gex
1.0 Giants
0.1 Giant Albino
0.1 Red strip/hypo
1.0 Patternless
0.2 Normals
Others:
1.0 Giant plated lizard
0.0.1 Blue Tegu
1.1 dogs
2:0 chinchillas

I use the same mix (redwood mulch & eco earh) for my tegus (colombian & aregntine) though most people use cypress mulch but like the previous poster it is not available in my area (CA) so i use redwood, as far as temps go i give both my tegus basking spots up to 120 degrees and then ambient temps range from about 86 warm side to 79 on the cool side
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0.1.0 Colombian Tegu
0.0.1 Argentine Tegu
1.3.4 Southern Alligator Lizards
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.0 Western Hognose
1.0.0 Ball Python
0.0.1 Golden Gecko

Knowing that a tegu as they grow, won't want to burrow but rather invade someone else, i cast mine with mortar, waterproof it and then fill it up with leaf moulde and dirt. it's sculpted of course and set well under a stump i find or a build a burm and do the same thing. my outdoor will have both; the burm will probably stay warmer in the day then the underground one. I've also heard of using a post hole digger and drilling at an angle but i also know that these when digging out a smaller burrow to make it fit, go horizontally, not down. Others i hear bury poly tubs or wood boxes in holes and back fill it except where the entrance is.
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Thnx,

Deven