I am surprised you don't mention tegu brumation in any of these videos. I feel like the fact that tegus can potentially sleep for 7 months of the year is pretty important
@@romdozer Required/desired or not tegus and many other reptiles can enter brumation even if temperatures stay the same. Its still worth considering imo.
I bought a baby savvie from a reptile farm when I was a preteen, I didn't know what I was doing and it was a miracle he lived past a year, but I took him outside with me every day, handled him almost constantly, and fed him everything that I could catch. He lived well into my 20s and got absolutely ENORMOUS, and I miss him terribly; by the time he got old he was coming to me for comfort and super calm during even the roughest bouts of handling. He was even used as an educational animal a few times! I would not, however, recommend them to someone who doesn't know what they're getting into.
I agree the tegu wins. It's not that the monitor isn't a great creature but I've heard too many people kill monitors by accident. They are super high maintenance if cared for properly. I cringe when someone I know considers even getting one.
As someone who owns a young monitor, I'd definitely say the tegu would hands down be better. I received mine from someone who couldn't look after it. The Savannah monitor is an amazing creature which you can tame with a lot of work, they are very dangerous but that comes with the territory imo. If you respect the creature and you respect what it can do, you can have an awesome animal in your care!
Australian monitor species (ackies, perenties, argus, lace monitors, ect) are just about bulletproof, very tough animals, sad most Americans cant get a hold of most of them
They are high maintenance but if you got the time and will properly care for it then they can be great pets because most monitors are pretty active, so you can interact with them a lot and they are generally more entertaining then other lizard species. Of course they are going to be high maintenance but there are some monitor species out there that are good lizards to keep as pets.
How’s it cringe? Clints list doesn’t really make any logistical sense. Why can’t we compromise in buying a large tank a tegu would require for a monitor instead? Also to add I own a Savannah monitor and she seems to be one of the calmest reptiles I own. Tegus are also beautiful in their own nature but in my opinion it’s a draw
Great video. Would love to see a basic head to head for beginner species like Ball Pythons vs Corn Snakes and Leopard Geckos vs Crested Geckos. These videos are pretty common but I'd love to get your take on them. In my opinion you guys have the BEST (hands down) reptile videos on UA-cam.
Wow! That is high praise. Thank you so much. We will definitely do videos like that as well as compare those reptiles to other possibilities that are less common. Thank you so much for the suggestion and the great feedback!
You gotta throw in the Green Iguana to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People go into stores and say oh look at this cute little lizard its only 20 lets get it not knowing what that tiny little lizard is going to become.
Oh believe me, I know!!! My cousin had one when I was young. I an in college to be a veterinarian technician and I specialize in exotic pets. After I get my medical license I'm going to get my degrees in Biology as well
I want you to know that after doing my due diligence, watching your videos etc.. I bought a male tegu! he is the trophy of my collection and has made reptile keeping even more rewarding. It truly is a labor of love. I remember when i first wanted to get an iguana, I'm glad I listened to you and changed my mind. Not all iguanas end up like Bryan's Barczyk's rhino iguana "Bella".
He is actually doing really well and is pretty huge. He hung out with me while i was doing some work on the garden today outside. He just walked around and stayed close by while I kept an eye on him. He enjoyed some fresh outdoor air. I live in Georgia so the weather permitted some outdoor activities.@@aprilmeowmeow
I really want a tegu someday. Beautiful big lizards! Also just as a tip, making the table top a rough surface is going to help your reptiles feel way more secure in your future vids!
Wow, who said feathered dinos aren't awesome looking? I think they're super cool! Great video, as always! I'd love to see you do one specifically on the BCI!
Here’s some ideas I had: Corn Snake vs. Ball Python Blue Tongue Skink vs. Bearded Dragon Burmese Python vs. Reticulated Python Leopard Gecko vs. Crested Gecko Leopard Gecko vs. Fat Tail Gecko Rosy Boa vs. Sand Boa Hognose vs. Garner Snake Box Turtle vs. Musk Turtle Panther Chameleon vs. ??? Boa Constrictor vs. ??? Uromastyx vs. Frilled Dragon Russian Tortoise vs. Red Foot Tortoise Tokay Gecko vs. White-Lined Gecko Chinese Water Dragon vs. ???
Great video! Can you do a "Blue Tounge Skink vs. Bearded Dragon" video? I have a lot of snakes and I'm looking into my first pet lizard but I want something that's not too small or too big lol hope you can help me out, thank you and have a good day (:
Do Tegus ever need "retaming" after brumation? Another question: I saw a video in which the keeper put a slab of granite in the cage with his large lizard. As the lizard crawled over it every day it would blunt the claws a bit. Ever try this? Any reason it wouldn't be recommended?
Hey Clint I just adopted a savannah monitor that my neighbor gave me. He is about half grown and occasionally he is a but head, so I was hoping you could make a video about how to tame savannah monitors
Andrew Blevins with food, the way to a lizards heart is through rewarding them with their favorite thing, food. The more they associate you with the thing they love the calmer they’ll become
I do NOT recommend water taming, do it the proper way, with lots of positive attentions in short bursts, never stress him out. Start with baby ant steps, one wrong move, and it's back to square one. Keep your interactions with him short and leave them on a positive note!
I have a monitor that is very tame he goes all over with me. I make him come out of his tank and put him in a huge tub to feed him. He knows he has to come out to eat. I don't know what water training is but he loves water. I have a huge pump spray bottle to keep his tank moist when he hears me pump it he comes running to get a shower. He also loves being put in the shower for some play time. We got him as a baby and wore gardening gloves the first few weeks but not an issue since then. He is leash trained. After he eats we go out for a walk and he poops in the yard never in his tank. He is a great pet but as much work as a dog.
The tegu is pretty much the practice lizard for owning large lizards as they are definitely the easiest of the lot to deal with - if you can't manage a tegu then you definitely can't manage the other big lizards.
I had a savannah monitor, it was 70 cm when i took it over and the guy had prob never held it so i had my work trying to get it tame. 2 times i woke up by my girlfriend screaming that the monitor had escaped and she was afraid as f since it was in our bedroom and it had gone behind the closets and tangled up in all the power cords. The monitor didnt think 3000 litre terrarium was big enough. I bought a rabbits harness and walked it in my garden only problem is that they are smart so it tangle up in bushes to try to get the harness off.
I just got my first Savannah Monitor. Absolutely love him to death. Hes on a strict diet of insects. He will live long as I will make sure EVERYTHING is perfect.
This fucking idea of ranking keepers with beginner, intermediate or advanced is so idiotic. If you want and think can handle a tegu, get one. You don't need to get a fucking certificate to show what animals you can and cannot own. But if you end up having a reptile that you can't take care of that's your stupid choice that you should suffer and feel bad about so you can actually learn something. I think this ranking system is just excuse for exotic pet owners to throw hundres and hundres of hours into their pet because that gives them... "PRESTIGE", that is worth soooo much. Imagine common dog owners rambling about having expertise within their area and that only "they" have tamed the wolf's spirit.
it's literally just a classification???? who in their right mind would even buy a reptile for prestige, but anyways you've already proven yourself to be quite the idiot by comparing reptile species to different breeds of dogs so there's no point arguing lmfao
After watching the Dog vs Tegu head to head I'm starting to become suspicious that these videos are just a way for GusGus to get his big break as Hollywood's most famous lizard.
Wow Clint, I thought the only Argentina tegu was the Salvator Rufescens, the red one, but I discovered the Salvator Merianae, the one you showed, also occurs in Argentina. Here in Brazil, the only argentina tegu is the red one, and I was almost correcting you before researched😂, very nice content and very nice video
There are many different colors, I've seen red,black and white,blue,a cross between red,blue and the black and white (called trichrome or some such) high white blues and albinos. There are possibly more but I've seen the ones I listed.
Tegu is just a better pet. They’re less likely to hurt someone and easier to keep healthy and alive. The success rate keeping monitors is incredibly low, I don’t think we know enough about them yet to effectively keep them. They should live 20+ years but it’s rare to see a captive one live that long
As far as it goes with Savannah monitor "expensiveness" I built my 8'x4'x4' enclosure for less than $175, the lighting I was actually gifted but costs around $250 and the substrate is about $75 worth of topsoil and a few bags of play sand mixed up and compacted about 20" deep, as far as insect feeders go, rainbow mealworms sells 1,000 giant super worms for $30 shipping and all, all in all I have a third of the cost of a tegu and a light fixture in a Savannah monitor and he's growing just fine
Absoultly love head to head vidios and also ttegu is my absoultly fav lizzard and getting one this week lol frfr can't not wait lol frfr love you Clint thanks plzz do a give away thanks.
@@sivonparansun sadly he died he never got any bigger than my hand was only a year old the vets reckon he was inbred and possible damage from the high drug fumed place i got him from 😪
Hi Clint. One thing i would want to see is a head to head video between the savannah monitor and the nile monitor. And there are 3 very good reasons for that. 1. They are both monitor lizards from Afrika. 2. They both eat similar feeders and need similarly sized inclosures with just a few differences here and there. 3. They both recieved the exact same score of(1.8 out of 5. And so with those 3 reasons in mind, why not make a video of that?
Savanah monitors need a much leaner diet! If you feed them rodents they get obese and die young. Niles can eat everything and anything including you. 😂. Savanah monitors learn to accept you and most calm down. Nile monitors seem to always be planning your death.
Bearded dragons vs blue tongue skinks ? I think skink would probably win but it could still be interesting. Also your tegu so adorable :3 wish I could afford one like that... for now my leopard geckos & beardie will have to do.
Loved this video! I'd love to see more like this!! If you do decide to go ahead on this type of video, I know for myself, I've been stuck between getting a bearded dragon or a blue tongue skink as my next reptile. I think maybe other people may have this struggle as well, because they're both relatively similar in terms of care and handleability. I know beardies are WAY easier to find than skinks, but I think your take on them head to head would be awesome! love your videos!! :)
If ever I'd get a tegu I'll most likely have him free roam around the house and garden. He'll have his own personal enclosure if I'm not home but most of the time he'll be chilling in the house. I'll have his enclosure open for him if ever he wants to basks. I'll most likely potty train him too so I'll basically just have a weird dog in the house.
When i got my first argentine tegu... i sold all my monitor lizards. Savanah and nile included. Going from vicious mad lizards to a lizard that actually liked me.... was a selling point.
I absolutely love Tegus and have had experience with large Boas, my last Red Tailed Boa was over 9 feet and she lived to be 34 before she passed. She was a beauty. I have had my heart set on a Tegu for years but unfortunately where I live there are no breeders! I am on the West side of Canada and the only breeders are in the East, mainly Ontario. It breaks my heart that I'll never be able to get one as importing and shipping a Tegu is extremely costly.
I am intrested in getting a tegu I know I am young and only have small lizards but I have a grandma who has owned a tegu AND iguana would it be ok IF I got one and had her close by? Also this is a big IF please don’t hate
In my opinion an Argentine tegu would be easier than the Savannah monitor because there more common and we know how to take care of them plus there omnivores so they can eat fruits and vegetables, but there are lots of arguments on savannah monitor
They r different: TEGU is the biggest lizard(classical lizards)and more modern. but Varano is a division more specific(and older) you can tell but their faces
I'd give Argentine Tegus a 9/10. Only thing I'd change if I could would be giving it the teen phase and tail of a bearded dragon. So it would basically be a jumbo beardie with a worse bite! lol
Thank you for this video. I am currently researching several animals before making a choice. I want the experience of having a large lizard. I own many reptiles and other exotic animals and feel confident in my abilities to do this and to acquire all the needed information.
I had a Savannah monitor in my twenties. Picked him up from a breeder and it cost me around 80.00. I had it for about 4-5 years before I had to choose between it and my wife (Girlfriend at the time). I wasn't happy but I gave it to my wife's sisters boyfriend. It was extremely tame and 4" in length. Feeding time was crazy because of how aggressive it was. a few times a live rat tried jumping out and made it to the top of the enclosure about 2 and a half feet high and it would snatch it from the top of the enclosure and press it into the ground back and forth until he knew it was dead or you would hear the crunch of the skull. pretty awesome and I wouldn't mind getting another if I was aloud!
Hey Clint! I'm sure this had been asked before, but do you have any links to Gus Gus's enclosure and/or other Argentine Tegu Enclosures? I currently have in my home an 1 male ackie monitor, 1 Indonesian blue tongue skink, 1 nigerian uromastxy, 2 bearded dragons, 1 jeweled lacerta, 1 gargoyle gecko, 1 crested gecko, and two leopard geckos... two dogs, 2 parrots and a cat. Sorry, no partridge in a pear tree. A lot of my babies were rescues. I'm looking into getting a male Argentine Tegu in the next few years, but need some good examples on what I should but build him.
I held a Sav monitor today at a reptile expo and fell in love. I'm not getting one right now at least but to hold it and have it fall asleep on me was an absolutely awesome experience.
Wooo, a new video~ I found your channel just about a week ago, and I binge-watched all of it's videos pretty quick, so I'm so happy that there's a new one already. Even if I knew a lot of the things you've brought up in your videos already I love to learn more and refresh my memory about things. Besides that your good mood and upbeat personality feel very contagious. Keep up the good work
I have had my sav for almost three years, I love her so much, if I had to pick a favorite out of all my animals, it would be her That being said, I'm picking up a tegu this weekend lol
After watching many videos and doing some education I got a tegu. I started right off training it...: this thing is ridiculous smart. I hand built a pvc and somehow...he managed to get through this little crack. I noticed he was interested in the crack but it was smaller than his head so I thought it would be fine. Obviously not... (if your reptile somehow gets out always check the closet) thank lord I found him!
I live in the savanna. in Zimbabwe we have these, not sure if its exactly the same as that one. here monitors, We best know them for sneaking into our cow pens and sucking the milk from the cows until they are bleeding. we call them "mupurwa". they can also whip you with their long tail and causing a massive cut. the ones here can also fart like a skunk i know this first hand. I remember at boarding school, walking along below the church and being called through the window by the priest, the priest and nuns had a mass at 5pm, everyday. well the priest and nuns couldnt leave the chapel because a monitor had somehow climbed up the stairs and was at the door hissing. long story short i tried to drag it away with a pole. then in farted and i had to stop the mission because it stank so much i couldn't bear to breathe it in.
Do they carry samonilla(sp?) or anything like that?? All the way around, I think the tegu would be a better pet. (I have never had any big lizards or reptiles)
I had never heard of the Tegu before this and I’d only seen the Monitor Lizard on Rescuers Down Under. Great to see both of them! Great video, very informative!:)
I really have to disagree that feathers make theropod dinosaurs less cool. But that's just my personal opinion. But good news! In addition to all of the totally stinkin rad feathered theropods - avian and otherwise - there are also plenty of seriously awesome non-feathered theropods. Just a couple of the most awesome and impressive examples could be the spinosaurids, and particularly the largest, most impressive, best known, and one of the most unusual looking, Spinosaurus itself, which we don't believe had feathers. And also some of the derived abelisaurids, particularly one of the larger, more impressive, better known, and most fantastically bizarre, Carnotaurus, which without a doubt had scales on a lot of its body, and there is no evidence of it having feathers, and which might just be the most amazing dinosaur there is. But neither of those are the best pet reptiles. They would definitely be worse pet reptiles than a green iguana, or a Komodo dragon, or a saltwater crocodile. For starters they will both get a 0 for availability, as neither of them can be found by any means, under any circumstances and that is in all honesty the _best_ thing about either of these animals as pets.
I really don't see what is so hard about having a savanah monitor. The one I had lived 12 years. An absolute babydoll. He was like a 12 pound version of the best bearded dragon I've ever had. The housing does need to be large but not a room of your house. Let them out on the floor a lot and let them roam. Mine would most of the time end up in my lap if it wasn't following the dog around. In the summer let them roam in the yard on a harness. The vet at the time recommended giving monkey biscuits soaked in water along with protein sources like pinky mice and rats. I found out never feed them something with feathers (constipation). Your videos are great, full of awesome information, but I think you forget to let people that have never had a monitor know how bad monitor poop can be. They love to do it in the water bowl, get it all over them, and then finger paint it all over the enclosure if you don't catch them in the act.
As someone with 4 tegus including a wild caught adult and a savanna, tegus win hands down for taming, training, and socialability. Savannas take a lot more work and with them requiring a lot of insects, food costs is more for my savanna than all 4 tegus combined. I also can trust my tegus to be around other animals. Not so much with a savanna. Also a tegu will readily chill out on your lap or head on your shoulder for pets and will fall asleep like that. Again, not so much with a savanna. You get to pet them and handle them on their terms.
My Savannah monitor was bred in the USA but she was 20 bucks and the next panel over was 20 but caught I even saw my Savannah monitors parents in the expo but there awesome 1 more dino be monitor ones more pupper being trgu
They seem to have the same pros and cons. Both can get obese because they want to eat way more than their bodies can handle. Both can tear you up if they want to. Both need expensive housing. Both can be fun pets. Like people each individual lizard can be cool or a jerk. I have seen mean savanahs and mean tegus.
I'm a year late to ask this but how quickly do tegu's grow? If I get a baby that fits in a 40 gallon aquarium how long will it take until it's grown out of it?
I would love to know your meal plan for gus gus. If you feel like you'd want to provide that info i would really appreciate it. Titus my tegu is 3 years old, i just adopted him, i just want to make sure im feeding right. You are awesome, i love your vids. Thanks no matter what.
His Gus Gus is like my savanna they can tame out like a tegu but it takes years of working but once you have that working done it’s super rewarding like in the afternoons I take him out of his enclosure and he sleeps on a doggy bed on my bed and then put him back in the mornings
I am surprised you don't mention tegu brumation in any of these videos. I feel like the fact that tegus can potentially sleep for 7 months of the year is pretty important
Brumation is not required for pet (non-breeding) tegus.
@@romdozer Required/desired or not tegus and many other reptiles can enter brumation even if temperatures stay the same. Its still worth considering imo.
Brumation, good to know
Must be planning on breeding
@@M0oseTacularyh for someone looking buy one its an important thing too know
I bought a baby savvie from a reptile farm when I was a preteen, I didn't know what I was doing and it was a miracle he lived past a year, but I took him outside with me every day, handled him almost constantly, and fed him everything that I could catch. He lived well into my 20s and got absolutely ENORMOUS, and I miss him terribly; by the time he got old he was coming to me for comfort and super calm during even the roughest bouts of handling. He was even used as an educational animal a few times! I would not, however, recommend them to someone who doesn't know what they're getting into.
I can nearly hear GusGus purring when you pet him..;-)....
Dawww me too
If lizards evolved to purr, they would be forever sanctioned by 99% of humanity.
Hey Clint could you show where you keep all of your reptiles?
archers of Roderiek the way Clint looks in the camera makes it seem like he keeps people in his basement
I third this
I agree the tegu wins. It's not that the monitor isn't a great creature but I've heard too many people kill monitors by accident. They are super high maintenance if cared for properly. I cringe when someone I know considers even getting one.
some monitors do fine as pets, the dwarf species even more, like the ackie monitor Clint made a video about
As someone who owns a young monitor, I'd definitely say the tegu would hands down be better. I received mine from someone who couldn't look after it. The Savannah monitor is an amazing creature which you can tame with a lot of work, they are very dangerous but that comes with the territory imo. If you respect the creature and you respect what it can do, you can have an awesome animal in your care!
Australian monitor species (ackies, perenties, argus, lace monitors, ect) are just about bulletproof, very tough animals, sad most Americans cant get a hold of most of them
They are high maintenance but if you got the time and will properly care for it then they can be great pets because most monitors are pretty active, so you can interact with them a lot and they are generally more entertaining then other lizard species. Of course they are going to be high maintenance but there are some monitor species out there that are good lizards to keep as pets.
How’s it cringe? Clints list doesn’t really make any logistical sense. Why can’t we compromise in buying a large tank a tegu would require for a monitor instead? Also to add I own a Savannah monitor and she seems to be one of the calmest reptiles I own. Tegus are also beautiful in their own nature but in my opinion it’s a draw
Great video. Would love to see a basic head to head for beginner species like Ball Pythons vs Corn Snakes and Leopard Geckos vs Crested Geckos. These videos are pretty common but I'd love to get your take on them. In my opinion you guys have the BEST (hands down) reptile videos on UA-cam.
Wow! That is high praise. Thank you so much. We will definitely do videos like that as well as compare those reptiles to other possibilities that are less common. Thank you so much for the suggestion and the great feedback!
Clint's Reptiles sounds awesome. Really looking forward to em.
Could you make A video on trust exercises with a large lizard?
Drop it, then catch it just before it hits the floor.
user.equalto.Null lol wtf
Good idea 💡
Have your dog come bother it then save it from your dog
He did actually. Even though its been a bit lol :P
Can you do an in-depth video on Tegu care? Bathroom training, feeding, cage maintenance, etc
You should do a reptile room tour or let us meet all your reptiles. Or talk about mites
You gotta throw in the Green Iguana to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People go into stores and say oh look at this cute little lizard its only 20 lets get it not knowing what that tiny little lizard is going to become.
Kendall Peyton there is only 2 outcomes with them:
1. They will only like you
2. They become a nightmare
Oh believe me, I know!!! My cousin had one when I was young. I an in college to be a veterinarian technician and I specialize in exotic pets. After I get my medical license I'm going to get my degrees in Biology as well
Kendall Peyton you can do it!!!
100% lol
I currently have an iguana. He is about 2 1/2 ft long atm. Apparently I’m treasure to him because there’s an X on my arm from him scratching me.😂😂
I want you to know that after doing my due diligence, watching your videos etc.. I bought a male tegu! he is the trophy of my collection and has made reptile keeping even more rewarding. It truly is a labor of love. I remember when i first wanted to get an iguana, I'm glad I listened to you and changed my mind. Not all iguanas end up like Bryan's Barczyk's rhino iguana "Bella".
how is he doing?
He is actually doing really well and is pretty huge. He hung out with me while i was doing some work on the garden today outside. He just walked around and stayed close by while I kept an eye on him. He enjoyed some fresh outdoor air. I live in Georgia so the weather permitted some outdoor activities.@@aprilmeowmeow
Oi! Don’t disrespect feathered dinosaurs! Are you the one person who hasn’t been attacked by a goose in the world?
Love watching GusGus just chill out and enjoy some pats. 😁😍
I really want a tegu someday. Beautiful big lizards! Also just as a tip, making the table top a rough surface is going to help your reptiles feel way more secure in your future vids!
At 1:25 that monitor is just like, "This is my life now..." lol
😂
Wow, who said feathered dinos aren't awesome looking? I think they're super cool!
Great video, as always! I'd love to see you do one specifically on the BCI!
3:12 What an absolute charm of a lizard. Who would have known they could enjoy being pet.
Here’s some ideas I had:
Corn Snake vs. Ball Python
Blue Tongue Skink vs. Bearded Dragon
Burmese Python vs. Reticulated Python
Leopard Gecko vs. Crested Gecko
Leopard Gecko vs. Fat Tail Gecko
Rosy Boa vs. Sand Boa
Hognose vs. Garner Snake
Box Turtle vs. Musk Turtle
Panther Chameleon vs. ???
Boa Constrictor vs. ???
Uromastyx vs. Frilled Dragon
Russian Tortoise vs. Red Foot Tortoise
Tokay Gecko vs. White-Lined Gecko
Chinese Water Dragon vs. ???
Boa constrictor vs carpet python maybe?
Cole Butterfield
Iguanas vs. Chameleons 🦎
And Chinese water dragon versus ackie monitor
Blue tounge skink vs beardie would be awesome since they are some of the most highly praised reptiles for keeper
CWD vs basilisks
Boa vs anaconda
Panther chameleon vs Jackson chameleon
Please do a video on boa constrictors!
That's funny when the savannah rolled out of your hands!
I would love to see an Asian Water Monitor in a video!
Great video! Can you do a "Blue Tounge Skink vs. Bearded Dragon" video? I have a lot of snakes and I'm looking into my first pet lizard but I want something that's not too small or too big lol hope you can help me out, thank you and have a good day (:
Do Tegus ever need "retaming" after brumation?
Another question: I saw a video in which the keeper put a slab of granite in the cage with his large lizard. As the lizard crawled over it every day it would blunt the claws a bit.
Ever try this?
Any reason it wouldn't be recommended?
Thanks for the vid buddy. You have helped me decide that I want a Tegu, as I was going back and forth between a Savannah and a Tegu. 😊
Hey Clint I just adopted a savannah monitor that my neighbor gave me. He is about half grown and occasionally he is a but head, so I was hoping you could make a video about how to tame savannah monitors
Andrew Blevins with food, the way to a lizards heart is through rewarding them with their favorite thing, food. The more they associate you with the thing they love the calmer they’ll become
Water taming it's so easy
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I do NOT recommend water taming, do it the proper way, with lots of positive attentions in short bursts, never stress him out. Start with baby ant steps, one wrong move, and it's back to square one. Keep your interactions with him short and leave them on a positive note!
I have a monitor that is very tame he goes all over with me. I make him come out of his tank and put him in a huge tub to feed him. He knows he has to come out to eat. I don't know what water training is but he loves water. I have a huge pump spray bottle to keep his tank moist when he hears me pump it he comes running to get a shower. He also loves being put in the shower for some play time. We got him as a baby and wore gardening gloves the first few weeks but not an issue since then. He is leash trained. After he eats we go out for a walk and he poops in the yard never in his tank. He is a great pet but as much work as a dog.
Hi Clint! Can you do a head to head on bearded dragons and ackie monitors!? Thanks :)
Agreed
The tegu is pretty much the practice lizard for owning large lizards as they are definitely the easiest of the lot to deal with - if you can't manage a tegu then you definitely can't manage the other big lizards.
Great content as always! Thank you! I think I’ll stick to my Leopard Gecko and Crested Gecko for now though.... 😉
You should get a custom cages tank for Gus Gus and have clints reptiles with your logo
Loved this! Can you do a Uromastyx video? Would love to see an Omani but any Uro will do!
yh that would be great! I've got a friend who wants one and more information would be cool
Gus Gus in every video I watch with him is only ever fussy when he really wants to be in your lap or climbing around on you.
I had a savannah monitor, it was 70 cm when i took it over and the guy had prob never held it so i had my work trying to get it tame. 2 times i woke up by my girlfriend screaming that the monitor had escaped and she was afraid as f since it was in our bedroom and it had gone behind the closets and tangled up in all the power cords. The monitor didnt think 3000 litre terrarium was big enough. I bought a rabbits harness and walked it in my garden only problem is that they are smart so it tangle up in bushes to try to get the harness off.
I just got my first Savannah Monitor. Absolutely love him to death. Hes on a strict diet of insects. He will live long as I will make sure EVERYTHING is perfect.
make sure to include other invert and vert prey, like crabs and frogs
I Like Argentine Tegus Better Then, The Savannah Monitors.
Me who lives in Florida where Argentine tegus are banned: 👁👄👁
Are you planning on doing more videos on other monitor species? I would love to see something on giants like the water monitor. :)
This fucking idea of ranking keepers with beginner, intermediate or advanced is so idiotic. If you want and think can handle a tegu, get one. You don't need to get a fucking certificate to show what animals you can and cannot own. But if you end up having a reptile that you can't take care of that's your stupid choice that you should suffer and feel bad about so you can actually learn something. I think this ranking system is just excuse for exotic pet owners to throw hundres and hundres of hours into their pet because that gives them... "PRESTIGE", that is worth soooo much. Imagine common dog owners rambling about having expertise within their area and that only "they" have tamed the wolf's spirit.
it's literally just a classification???? who in their right mind would even buy a reptile for prestige, but anyways you've already proven yourself to be quite the idiot by comparing reptile species to different breeds of dogs so there's no point arguing lmfao
baby Savannah monitors i see are like $25-$30 baby Argentine B&W tegus are like $200 right?
After watching the Dog vs Tegu head to head I'm starting to become suspicious that these videos are just a way for GusGus to get his big break as Hollywood's most famous lizard.
I just commented yesterday about wanting a tegu video and wake up to this in my recommended videos! Love this channel!
We have more tegu videos than this :)
Wow Clint, I thought the only Argentina tegu was the Salvator Rufescens, the red one, but I discovered the Salvator Merianae, the one you showed, also occurs in Argentina. Here in Brazil, the only argentina tegu is the red one, and I was almost correcting you before researched😂, very nice content and very nice video
There are many different colors, I've seen red,black and white,blue,a cross between red,blue and the black and white (called trichrome or some such) high white blues and albinos. There are possibly more but I've seen the ones I listed.
Tegu is just a better pet. They’re less likely to hurt someone and easier to keep healthy and alive. The success rate keeping monitors is incredibly low, I don’t think we know enough about them yet to effectively keep them. They should live 20+ years but it’s rare to see a captive one live that long
Hey have you ever kept an Argentine tegu before? If so can I have some tips especially on lighting? That’s what I’m worried about.
As far as it goes with Savannah monitor "expensiveness" I built my 8'x4'x4' enclosure for less than $175, the lighting I was actually gifted but costs around $250 and the substrate is about $75 worth of topsoil and a few bags of play sand mixed up and compacted about 20" deep, as far as insect feeders go, rainbow mealworms sells 1,000 giant super worms for $30 shipping and all, all in all I have a third of the cost of a tegu and a light fixture in a Savannah monitor and he's growing just fine
Absoultly love head to head vidios and also ttegu is my absoultly fav lizzard and getting one this week lol frfr can't not wait lol frfr love you Clint thanks plzz do a give away thanks.
I love my Savannah Monitor (I make lots of videos about her) but tegus generally are better for a large majority of people.
I have a 5 month old Savannah ive had him since 8 weeks he still wants to eat me
@@sexitats42 that sounds rough, is that still happening
@@sivonparansun sadly he died he never got any bigger than my hand was only a year old the vets reckon he was inbred and possible damage from the high drug fumed place i got him from 😪
Both Lizards are Beautifully Awesome, But I really love that Argentine Tegu!
Hi Clint. One thing i would want to see is a head to head video between the savannah monitor and the nile monitor. And there are 3 very good reasons for that. 1. They are both monitor lizards from Afrika. 2. They both eat similar feeders and need similarly sized inclosures with just a few differences here and there. 3. They both recieved the exact same score of(1.8 out of 5. And so with those 3 reasons in mind, why not make a video of that?
Savanah monitors need a much leaner diet! If you feed them rodents they get obese and die young. Niles can eat everything and anything including you. 😂. Savanah monitors learn to accept you and most calm down. Nile monitors seem to always be planning your death.
Bearded dragons vs blue tongue skinks ? I think skink would probably win but it could still be interesting. Also your tegu so adorable :3 wish I could afford one like that... for now my leopard geckos & beardie will have to do.
Loved this video! I'd love to see more like this!! If you do decide to go ahead on this type of video, I know for myself, I've been stuck between getting a bearded dragon or a blue tongue skink as my next reptile. I think maybe other people may have this struggle as well, because they're both relatively similar in terms of care and handleability. I know beardies are WAY easier to find than skinks, but I think your take on them head to head would be awesome! love your videos!! :)
If ever I'd get a tegu I'll most likely have him free roam around the house and garden. He'll have his own personal enclosure if I'm not home but most of the time he'll be chilling in the house. I'll have his enclosure open for him if ever he wants to basks. I'll most likely potty train him too so I'll basically just have a weird dog in the house.
When i got my first argentine tegu... i sold all my monitor lizards. Savanah and nile included. Going from vicious mad lizards to a lizard that actually liked me.... was a selling point.
Could you make a video on the Iguana or satanic leaf gecko? i would really love that
Whenever I’m buying a lizard I always imagine That the money I’m putting to it is the treasure in giving up to appease the dragon
I absolutely love Tegus and have had experience with large Boas, my last Red Tailed Boa was over 9 feet and she lived to be 34 before she passed. She was a beauty. I have had my heart set on a Tegu for years but unfortunately where I live there are no breeders! I am on the West side of Canada and the only breeders are in the East, mainly Ontario. It breaks my heart that I'll never be able to get one as importing and shipping a Tegu is extremely costly.
I am intrested in getting a tegu I know I am young and only have small lizards but I have a grandma who has owned a tegu AND iguana would it be ok IF I got one and had her close by? Also this is a big IF please don’t hate
me: hm, im alright
me, seeing these beautiful boys: !!!!!!!!!! BAYBEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!! BAB!!IES!!! I !! LOVE THEM! BABIES?????? BEBABIES.... BABIES..
Great work as usual buddy! As a reptile zookeeper I keep reccomending you for your excellent videos! Keep it up.
In my opinion an Argentine tegu would be easier than the Savannah monitor because there more common and we know how to take care of them plus there omnivores so they can eat fruits and vegetables, but there are lots of arguments on savannah monitor
They r different: TEGU is the biggest lizard(classical lizards)and more modern. but Varano is a division more specific(and older) you can tell but their faces
I'd give Argentine Tegus a 9/10. Only thing I'd change if I could would be giving it the teen phase and tail of a bearded dragon. So it would basically be a jumbo beardie with a worse bite! lol
Disappointed that the size of enclosures needed wasn’t quantified. Exactly how big?? Pool size or?
Thank you for this video. I am currently researching several animals before making a choice. I want the experience of having a large lizard. I own many reptiles and other exotic animals and feel confident in my abilities to do this and to acquire all the needed information.
WOW, dude, I really liked your video. Very informative! Wish you were around when I was a kid!!
I had a Savannah monitor in my twenties. Picked him up from a breeder and it cost me around 80.00. I had it for about 4-5 years before I had to choose between it and my wife (Girlfriend at the time). I wasn't happy but I gave it to my wife's sisters boyfriend. It was extremely tame and 4" in length.
Feeding time was crazy because of how aggressive it was. a few times a live rat tried jumping out and made it to the top of the enclosure about 2 and a half feet high and it would snatch it from the top of the enclosure and press it into the ground back and forth until he knew it was dead or you would hear the crunch of the skull. pretty awesome and I wouldn't mind getting another if I was aloud!
I would've chosen my lizard. Your wife's a b**** for that sorry not sorry.
Hey Clint! I'm sure this had been asked before, but do you have any links to Gus Gus's enclosure and/or other Argentine Tegu Enclosures? I currently have in my home an 1 male ackie monitor, 1 Indonesian blue tongue skink, 1 nigerian uromastxy, 2 bearded dragons, 1 jeweled lacerta, 1 gargoyle gecko, 1 crested gecko, and two leopard geckos... two dogs, 2 parrots and a cat. Sorry, no partridge in a pear tree. A lot of my babies were rescues.
I'm looking into getting a male Argentine Tegu in the next few years, but need some good examples on what I should but build him.
I held a Sav monitor today at a reptile expo and fell in love. I'm not getting one right now at least but to hold it and have it fall asleep on me was an absolutely awesome experience.
Wooo, a new video~
I found your channel just about a week ago, and I binge-watched all of it's videos pretty quick, so I'm so happy that there's a new one already. Even if I knew a lot of the things you've brought up in your videos already I love to learn more and refresh my memory about things. Besides that your good mood and upbeat personality feel very contagious.
Keep up the good work
I have had my sav for almost three years, I love her so much, if I had to pick a favorite out of all my animals, it would be her That being said, I'm picking up a tegu this weekend lol
Gus Gus is cutier
Savannah Monitors are way cuter but seem like a lot more work. Kinda wish I could get a Tegu in a savanah monitors body...
After watching many videos and doing some education I got a tegu. I started right off training it...: this thing is ridiculous smart. I hand built a pvc and somehow...he managed to get through this little crack. I noticed he was interested in the crack but it was smaller than his head so I thought it would be fine. Obviously not... (if your reptile somehow gets out always check the closet) thank lord I found him!
I live in the savanna. in Zimbabwe we have these, not sure if its exactly the same as that one. here monitors, We best know them for sneaking into our cow pens and sucking the milk from the cows until they are bleeding. we call them "mupurwa". they can also whip you with their long tail and causing a massive cut. the ones here can also fart like a skunk i know this first hand. I remember at boarding school, walking along below the church and being called through the window by the priest, the priest and nuns had a mass at 5pm, everyday. well the priest and nuns couldnt leave the chapel because a monitor had somehow climbed up the stairs and was at the door hissing. long story short i tried to drag it away with a pole. then in farted and i had to stop the mission because it stank so much i couldn't bear to breathe it in.
Do they carry samonilla(sp?) or anything like that?? All the way around, I think the tegu would be a better pet. (I have never had any big lizards or reptiles)
I had never heard of the Tegu before this and I’d only seen the Monitor Lizard on Rescuers Down Under. Great to see both of them! Great video, very informative!:)
tegus rule
Hey Clint, would you ever make a video showing the enclosure of your tegu? I see some online but curious what your setup looks like
I’d say your best bet is osb 2x4s and hardware cloth and make sure it’s big enough
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And one more thing,are you Martin Shorts’ illegitimate love child?
I really have to disagree that feathers make theropod dinosaurs less cool. But that's just my personal opinion.
But good news! In addition to all of the totally stinkin rad feathered theropods - avian and otherwise - there are also plenty of seriously awesome non-feathered theropods. Just a couple of the most awesome and impressive examples could be the spinosaurids, and particularly the largest, most impressive, best known, and one of the most unusual looking, Spinosaurus itself, which we don't believe had feathers. And also some of the derived abelisaurids, particularly one of the larger, more impressive, better known, and most fantastically bizarre, Carnotaurus, which without a doubt had scales on a lot of its body, and there is no evidence of it having feathers, and which might just be the most amazing dinosaur there is.
But neither of those are the best pet reptiles. They would definitely be worse pet reptiles than a green iguana, or a Komodo dragon, or a saltwater crocodile. For starters they will both get a 0 for availability, as neither of them can be found by any means, under any circumstances and that is in all honesty the _best_ thing about either of these animals as pets.
I really don't see what is so hard about having a savanah monitor. The one I had lived 12 years. An absolute babydoll. He was like a 12 pound version of the best bearded dragon I've ever had. The housing does need to be large but not a room of your house. Let them out on the floor a lot and let them roam. Mine would most of the time end up in my lap if it wasn't following the dog around. In the summer let them roam in the yard on a harness. The vet at the time recommended giving monkey biscuits soaked in water along with protein sources like pinky mice and rats. I found out never feed them something with feathers (constipation). Your videos are great, full of awesome information, but I think you forget to let people that have never had a monitor know how bad monitor poop can be. They love to do it in the water bowl, get it all over them, and then finger paint it all over the enclosure if you don't catch them in the act.
As someone with 4 tegus including a wild caught adult and a savanna, tegus win hands down for taming, training, and socialability. Savannas take a lot more work and with them requiring a lot of insects, food costs is more for my savanna than all 4 tegus combined. I also can trust my tegus to be around other animals. Not so much with a savanna. Also a tegu will readily chill out on your lap or head on your shoulder for pets and will fall asleep like that. Again, not so much with a savanna. You get to pet them and handle them on their terms.
The Tegu wins again. Their obscurity and lack of fur might be the only things keeping them from competing with dogs and cats imo
False: Savannah Monitors at every reptile store I've been to was from 39.99-59.99
My Savannah monitor was bred in the USA but she was 20 bucks and the next panel over was 20 but caught I even saw my Savannah monitors parents in the expo but there awesome 1 more dino be monitor ones more pupper being trgu
They seem to have the same pros and cons. Both can get obese because they want to eat way more than their bodies can handle. Both can tear you up if they want to. Both need expensive housing. Both can be fun pets. Like people each individual lizard can be cool or a jerk. I have seen mean savanahs and mean tegus.
Not sure how I got down this path but I’ve been watching a lot of tegu videos that have been popping up 🤔
Out of all tegus, Blue Tegus are the most popular. Which is why, they're the most expensive ones.
Savanah is best they eat only bugs instead of animals 🙂
Please do one on a Nile Monitor or an Asian Water Monitor, or a comparable sized lizard.
A T-Rex and Velociraptor shrunken down into the same size
Clint feathers dont necesarily make dionasurs cute just luck up an image of a therizinosaurus,it aint cute and a tyrannosaurus rex with feathers
I'm a year late to ask this but how quickly do tegu's grow? If I get a baby that fits in a 40 gallon aquarium how long will it take until it's grown out of it?
I would love to know your meal plan for gus gus. If you feel like you'd want to provide that info i would really appreciate it. Titus my tegu is 3 years old, i just adopted him, i just want to make sure im feeding right. You are awesome, i love your vids. Thanks no matter what.
His Gus Gus is like my savanna they can tame out like a tegu but it takes years of working but once you have that working done it’s super rewarding like in the afternoons I take him out of his enclosure and he sleeps on a doggy bed on my bed and then put him back in the mornings
I'm here for Gus Gus. He's my favorite.
I adore Gus Gus too! I want a big lizard to love!!
Yessss Clint 👌 getting my argentine tegu this summer :-)
Get a sav dude there the best
Maddox Davidson nah, im in love with the argentine 🙂
WolfStack I want both of them.
@wiolfstack Tegu all the way! I just got mine a month ago, and he is awesome! :)
@@studioseven9 How they doin rn?
…and a Komodo Dragon would eat both of those lizards as a simple snack, at the same time!
They really do need a lot of room, my savana’s enclosure is 4x4x10 and even that’s not as big as I’d like
When it comes to lizards, you really can't give them too much room. The only reptile I've heard that maybe wouldn't would be are larger snakes.
Hey could you please do a care video for a mark zuckaburg? They are really cool and I’d like to own one
I have an argentine tegu and he is so smart and adorable that I went out one time and when I came back, he found my phone which I lost for a day