Hello all! It's likely obvious I'm new here, but thought I'd just get that out of the way 
This is my 2 year old Beardie, 'Digi'.
When we got him, they estimated he was about 7 months old.
He had a healed, but missing, right, front, pinky finger (aka 'missing a digit'), at the second joint (you can see in the close-up of him enjoying his salad) and so we named him 'Digit' and have shortened it to 'Digi', to go with 'Cali' and 'Wooki', our 2 Aussiedoodles (Australian Shepherd crossed with Standard Poodle). We also have 2 kids (1 boy/1 girl, 7 & 5, crazy over living things, just like me).
I was a nervous first timer (with reptiles, as pets), but Digi and I worked together, having 8-10 handling sessions/day and many naps together (he makes me sleepy, just like a baby...kinda like taking a sedative, I often say) and he's now, clearly, a Momma's boy!
My husband has had Iguanas in the past and I'm not a fan due to his experience (had one that was very tame and one that was inclined to whip and couldn't be tamed), but we are looking to add a large reptile to our family and hoping to make he/she as tame as our Digi. We're planning to add an Argentine Red Tegu or a Savannah Monitor to our family, but we're a bit torn between the two. We work from our spacious home, thus we have all the time to devote to our pets and plenty of room for them to grow and roam
I've briefly read some reviews on some similar posts in consideration between much the same (although done plenty of other researching before finding this forum), but as I'm new here, think it would be easier to find my own post versus that of another Member and was hoping you'd all kindly share your views here, as well.
Looking for the good, bad and the down right dirty/stinky on each.
I really don't like stinky things. Crickets stink! Digi does not and neither does his Terrarium (anymore). I keep my Crickets in a separate Terrarium with a sand bottom and sift the sand after each batch, because if I don't the smell is almost too much for me. Digi does not smell, in the least! I use Crushed Walnut Shells as his substrate and he rarely dirties in his tank, but even when he does I don't find it smells (other substrates I did find his matter almost enough to gag me at times).
We have been considering adopting either (the Tegu or Monitor) and just stumbled upon this forum, while searching for comparisons between the two.
Please share with me, any experience or advice you may have.
Thanking you all in advance and looking forward to further familiarizing myself with this forum over the next little while.
This is my 2 year old Beardie, 'Digi'.
When we got him, they estimated he was about 7 months old.
He had a healed, but missing, right, front, pinky finger (aka 'missing a digit'), at the second joint (you can see in the close-up of him enjoying his salad) and so we named him 'Digit' and have shortened it to 'Digi', to go with 'Cali' and 'Wooki', our 2 Aussiedoodles (Australian Shepherd crossed with Standard Poodle). We also have 2 kids (1 boy/1 girl, 7 & 5, crazy over living things, just like me). I was a nervous first timer (with reptiles, as pets), but Digi and I worked together, having 8-10 handling sessions/day and many naps together (he makes me sleepy, just like a baby...kinda like taking a sedative, I often say) and he's now, clearly, a Momma's boy!
My husband has had Iguanas in the past and I'm not a fan due to his experience (had one that was very tame and one that was inclined to whip and couldn't be tamed), but we are looking to add a large reptile to our family and hoping to make he/she as tame as our Digi. We're planning to add an Argentine Red Tegu or a Savannah Monitor to our family, but we're a bit torn between the two. We work from our spacious home, thus we have all the time to devote to our pets and plenty of room for them to grow and roam
I've briefly read some reviews on some similar posts in consideration between much the same (although done plenty of other researching before finding this forum), but as I'm new here, think it would be easier to find my own post versus that of another Member and was hoping you'd all kindly share your views here, as well.
Looking for the good, bad and the down right dirty/stinky on each.
I really don't like stinky things. Crickets stink! Digi does not and neither does his Terrarium (anymore). I keep my Crickets in a separate Terrarium with a sand bottom and sift the sand after each batch, because if I don't the smell is almost too much for me. Digi does not smell, in the least! I use Crushed Walnut Shells as his substrate and he rarely dirties in his tank, but even when he does I don't find it smells (other substrates I did find his matter almost enough to gag me at times).
We have been considering adopting either (the Tegu or Monitor) and just stumbled upon this forum, while searching for comparisons between the two.
Please share with me, any experience or advice you may have.
Thanking you all in advance and looking forward to further familiarizing myself with this forum over the next little while.
