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With the addition of my juvenile Red Tegu last summer I decided to hibernate it this year because I want to possibly breed it in the future. My San Felipes Rosy Boa was also put into hibernation and did fine. The Tegu however lost a substantial amount of weight and at first didn't really want to eat. As of now she is eating everything except mice and I was just wondering if there was anything extra I could do to help it gain weight back. Also what is the average tempature for hibernation for them, because I think it lost all the weight due to it being at room tempature and not being cold enough.

Any help will be appreciated

I'm using butterworms, thawd turkey with egg shells and hardboild egg mixed in along with vites and such. Might want to offer pedialite non flavored but that's just an idea.

for the butterworms, i hear the larger tomatoe worms are good to with fat but imo butters have more calcium.
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Thnx,

Deven

I'm told by a researcher who worked on hibernating tegus in south/central Brazil that their burrows during winter are usually 13-17 degrees Celsius. Room temperature would likely be quite warm and cause them to loose more weight.