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Caging

Saturday, May 7th, 2011


When setting up your lizard’s home it is better to err on the side of too much space rather than too little. The vast majority of first-time lizard owners, particularly those who opt for lizards that reach considerable size, often place their new lizards in structures that are far too small for their needs. Size guidelines are given in chapter 6. They range from a gallon jug sufficient for a small burrowing legless lizard to structures 10 feet long, 7 feet high and 2 1/2 feet wide for large arboreal species such as the common Green Iguana. If you build your own enclosure or have one custom built, make sure it will be big enough for your lizard’s future needs. Be sure to design your lizard’s home for easy cleaning and maintenance. Enclosures for climbing or arboreal species should include shelves and the means to attach branches to the upper reaches of their walls. The flooring should be easy to clean. Vinyl-tile flooring or glass-bottomed structures such as large aquarium tanks are examples. Substrate should be selected with the lizard’s needs and your planting  and decorating objectives in mind. If an aquarium is used, the top should not be glass-covered except for species that require high humidity. Screen covers are best. If a cage is being built, grate-covered ventilation holes can be made in the sides and back wall. Some hobbyists prefer hinged doors, others sliding doors. Aquariums covered with screen covers mean performing chores through the top. A number of companies that advertise in reptile magazines advertise standard and custom cage building services. These cages are made from nontoxic materials laminated with melamine or Formica. Be sure any glues, paints or other substances applied to the tank are not toxic after properly dried.

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Iguana and Its Habitat

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010


Now Beebe was actively observing tropical animal life for forty years and this was the most intelligent iguana activity he was able to report. Draw your own conclusions.

Your pet can be expected to respond in ways you can measure to warmth, light, food, dogs, and water, but you will need a lot of patience and a sharp eye to spot many of these responses.

When in trouble, an iguana heads for a tree or for water. The ideal escape would be up a tree overhanging water, then to drop into the water, swim underwater and quietly come to the surface sometime later. If things get worse, and only as a last resort, the iguana can drop most of his tail. The discarded appendage will swish about for a while and perhaps distract the enemy while the reptile makes his escape. The tail stump will bleed a little then heal and slowly regenerate, but it will never be as nice as the original. There will be a scar line and the new tail will probably be solid black rather than black-banded green, and possibly it will not be as long as the original. C’est la vie!

Common iguanas are arboreal. They like to live in trees. They could spend their entire adult lives in trees, the females coming down once a year to dig burrows in a sandy hillside to lay eggs and the young remaining on land until they get too large or slow or hungry to subsist on just crickets and smaller reptiles. Your pet should be permitted to climb and perch and feel secure on a high window sill, valance or mantle piece. He can manage without the water under the perch if you provide a place to bathe or soak once in a while.

Longevity records for iguanas suggest that ten years for a common green iguana is not at all unusual. One pet kept in an apartment is known by the author to be over twelve years old. W. Michael Carey of the University of South Florida, Tampa, reported on two caged pets, one of which lived twelve years and five months; when it died it measured about 13 1/2 inches from snout to vent. Since the tail might be more than three fifths the total length, we could estimate a total length of perhaps four feet. Another captive lived ten years and five months; its snout-vent length (SVL) was about twelve inches.

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A Place in the Sun

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010


The common green iguana is one species within one genus of a family of lizards found mostly in the New World. This green iguana and the other typical iguanas are tropical and semi-tropical and active during daylight hours (diurnal). Their eyes have round pupils and well developed lids. Their tongues are short, thick and only slightly notched, as contrasted to the long forked tongue of, for instance, the monitor lizards. It lays eggs, in common with most other iguanids (oviparous). Only a few give birth to living young (viviparous). They are frequently but not always brightly colored; they often have spines, frills or crests, and many can distend their throats. They can alter their color somewhat, some species more than others. Some may favor trees (arboreal) and others favor the land (terrestrial). Two are from the Galapagos Islands, and one of these is semi-marine, eats seaweed and would probably rather die than climb a tree.

For a beginning herpetologist or hobbyist pet keeper, the best iguana is the common green iguana – scientifically: Iguana iguana iguana. If you don’t go out of your way when you choose a pet in a pet shop, this is what you probably will get. Good. The only other iguanas that resemble it are Iguana iguana delicatissima which lacks the circular shields found below the eardrums of Iguana iguana iguana, and Iguana iguana rhinolopha which has a slight protuberance at the snout. So there you have it – genus Iguana, species iguana, and subspecies perhaps iguana or delicatissima or rhinolopha.

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The Iguana

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010


Close up of a mature Galapagos land iguana. Notice especially the bumpy scales on the head and the spines at the back of the neck.

IGUANA – The primary subject of this book. Depending on whose classification – and when it was written – there is one species or two and perhaps even three subspecies. For purposes of this book there is one species with three subspecies all having identical natural history and only slight differences in appearance.

IGUANA IGUANA IGUANA – Common green iguana, tuberculated iguana, common iguana, Chinese dragon and, in Central America, gallina de pallo - chicken.

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Types of Iguana

Friday, January 8th, 2010


BRACHYLOPHUS FASCIATUS – A “typical” but not “true” iguana. The Fiji Island iguana, handsome, rare, three feet, vegetarian.

CTENOSAURA HEMILOPHA – Common spiny-tail iguana. Central Mexico to U.S. border. Three feet. Grey black with a short spiny tail. Spends more time on the ground than the common green iguana and requires more animal food. Robust and dangerous. This species was formerly called Ctenosaura conspicuosa, the banded spiny-tail iguana.

CTENOSAURA ACANTHURA – Black iguana. Mexico and Central America. Can run on two feet. More terrestrial than arboreal. Young specimens are uniformly bright emerald green. This is a spiny-tailed iguana and may in fact by the very same species as Ctenosaura hemilopha.

CTENOSAURA MULTISPINIS – Black spiny-tail iguana. Mexico. Probably the very same as C. acanthura but described by another scholar.

ENYALIOSAURUS -Two species from Mexico. Uncommon in the per trade.

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