I present glorious Boy Butt.
Congrats, you now have Laverne & Shirley
Wonder if the shipper just has the sex symbol upside down, and got fired at the M&M factory for rejecting all the W's.
Personal opinion, way too young to have a basking bulb. And it might be light enough to still be a filthy screen crawler, so could get right up underneath.
And it may just be the angle, but it looks like the top branch is way too far from the bulb, if the bulb is a T5HO 5.0/6%.
Also us folks...
hes got that extra lens or what ever that alligators etc have. So hes half blinking in the pic
https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/171927989-close-tegu-lizard-eye-tupinambis-cuzcoensis-blinking
Is he using his tongue like a beardy and not shooting it out, or like not using it at all and just catching with teeth? Do you see him licking his lips with his tongue?
All of my tongue injuries resulted in eating like a beardy, so still stuck it out a bit to stick to the food, and still used...
How about some wax paper. It lets light through, but obstructs the view. Plus odds are its only temporary. You could even put a big plant in front of the cage as a permanent solution. I used to drape fake vines on the outside like i was Camouflaging a tank if i had a couple of extended...
Meh if it doesnt look like you have a pet tree, its not enough stuff. You should have to try to find the cham. Only issue is if the foliage crowds out the basking area. And them leaves love the basking area almost as much as the cham.
Spar Urethane. Its called a few things (outdoor polyurethane, Spar varnish, marine grade blabla). But its basically polyurethane that is UV stable. Once its cured, you could eat off of it, or eat it.
What are basking temps? Even 48 degrees is fine at night.
A day time high of 72 is fine too. Ideally the heatbulb would pop him into the 80's in the basking area.
Just convince him with "more bug, less chew".
But really the only thing that worked for me is "trail mix" feeder cup with lots of different feeders, and hope for a few misses. I did have one person, a desperate soul, glue a upside down cricket on a dubia with a dot of honey...
Oh yea, i try to feed each of my feeders a different gutload. So the supers would get the left over carrots and the dubia would get the left over leafy greens.