Lizards anyone?

[Tindomul1of9]

CooL!!! I like that name!

[Landon]

i am currently keeping:
1.2 (presumed) Phelsuma laticauda
1.2 Phelsuma v-nigra comoraegrandensis

in the past i have kept a male veiled chameleon and a couple species of leaf chameleons. my first herps were green anoles and i had one live over 5 years.

Originally Posted by nikon

She was a Basiliscus vittatus. See post #11. She was doing real well for a year and a half, but she wouldn't eat the last 3 pinkies I gave her. I tried Jump Start and she LOVED it. After each mouthload, she opened up for more, but I didn't want to give her too much on the first feeding. To no avail, she died that night. Sigh. Well, I better ask while I'm here, has anyone else had problems feeding? If so, how did you all get them back on track?

ive never had basilisks, but any herp ive had that wouldnt eat, was mostly because of boredom, IMO. if i have problems getting herps to eat i begin to try many different types of food items. a basilisk that size should easily take crickets, grass hoppers, roaches, butter worms, small horned worms, wax worms, meal worms, and prolly more i cant think of right now. i havent found a herp yet that wouldnt eat a butter worm. i read somewhere that they emit a subtle smell tha treptiles pick up on. its kind of like a genetic reaction to eat them. i dont know how true that is, as it was passed on to me by a fellow hobbyest, but i believe it. did you try feeding it different things or just mice?

[kwiky]

tomorrow im getting a rescue malayan water monitor (varanus salvator)
it was handed into the herp shop where i work becuase it is a biter and is now 4 ft long, im going to tame it up and keep it as it obviously needs a lot of time spend with it and i hate to see things got rid of when they get too large, im building an 8ftx6ftx8ft enclosure for it so i should be able to have a pretty large water area as well as lots of plants and stuff, its currently living in a 6ftx2ftx2ft glass tank.
i'll post pics up of it tomorrow

[lizardlover]

i got 2 baby alligator lizards i got 1 water dragon and 4 beardies

[Landon]

pics of the alligator lizards? what spoecies are they? where did you get ehm? and how do you keep them? ive been looking for some of these for al ong time!!

sorry for all the Qs, but im a bit excited about these.

[linkgod85]

I've got a Collard Lizard, myself.

I will add a few pictures later.

They are a very entertaining Lizard to watch.

[Tindomul1of9]

I saw a collared lizard at the American Museum of Natural History in NY in Januaury. They had a live exhibition of reptiles. Nice lizard!

[Gen_Dragon]

I currently have alot of reptiles
2- Veiled Chameleons
2 Chinese waterdragons
2 Bearded dragons
Frilled dragon
Roughneck Monitor


Albino Granite Burmese Python
Amethystine Python
Jungle Carpet Python

[Abraham1907]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

No I haven't got lizards. But, a Professor at the college where I work released some sort of lizard a few years ago, more 8 years now. They population has sustained itself and seems to be thriving. A big feat considering this is NYC we are talking about. Last winter (not this last winter the one before) was pretty harsh and I thought they would have all died out. Not so, they are still abundant. People say they have spread as far as 10 miles! Thats as close as I have ever gotten to having lizards.

This really doesn't sound like a good idea. Non-native species can really mess with stuff like insect populations and so forth. But what do I know compared to a professor I guess, he had to sit through four years of college to let lizards go into the wild!

Note: I'm not trying to be rude or dig at your professor friend, just expressing my views.

[Kypsalis]

I've got a Striped Basilisk named Crikey...Note the doomed cricket at top left...


And a Leopard Gecko named Izzy...