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Care of Iguanas

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Still another iguana killer is respiratory disease. Generally it is found in run-down specimens. Buy a healthy animal and take good care of it and avoid this problem. If you are the owner of a thin-tailed, grey, wet-eyed or sunken-eyed snuffler who doesn’t eat or distend his dewlap of otherwise show an enthusiasm for life, you might try several cures simultaneously:

  • Try a penicillin-type drug administered by your veterinarian
  • Provide sunlight, preferably direct and unfiltered by glass.
  • Coax food – try variety
  • Avoid handling and stressing the animal
  • Keep temperature up – say 82 F to 90 F. Both day and night during the treatment.
  • Keep cage dry and clean. Clean means antiseptically clean. Wash the cage with a carbolic acid preparation like Lysol and then thoroughly rinse and dry it to assure that no chemical remains before placing the animal back in his quarters.
  • Avoid wooden cages and cages with complicated construction where parasites and germs can hide and avoid detection and disinfection.

It should be noted that some iguana parasites pass through complicated life cycles and during one stage may leave a reptile and find a bird or mammal host, possibly even a human. The important thing to remember is that the parasites like chiggers, ticks and mites sometimes carry within their systems such diseases as “Q” fever. When a mite carrying “Q” fever infests an iguana becomes a stepping stone for the disease to be transmitted further.

The control is simple. Free your iguana from ticks, chiggers and mites. Keep the iguana isolated from other animals which might transfer new infestations. Keep the cage clean. Sterilize it if necessary. Keep the cage simple so that parasites do not have a place to hide while you are eliminating the individuals clinging to your pet. Once freed of parasites your new acquisition need never be infested again.

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Origin of the Turtle’s Shell

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

The origin of the turtle’s shell has not been convincingly explained to any length or depth.   A small reptile now named Eunotosaurus that lived approximately 250 million years ago in the “Permian” age has often been stated and referred to as  a probable turtle or turtle based ancestor.  It had ribs which were broadened in such a way that suggests it played the role of a rudimentary “shell”. But whatever  the beginnings of turtles may have been – then the shell itself is now the mark  of the turtle clan.

In spite of the millions of years of evolution that have seen turtles established nearly everywhere on the earth except for the air , with “flying turtles”.  the shell itself has been retained and is the most recognizable form and indeed trademark of this group and grouping of type of animals.

Oldest Turtle Found; May Crack Shell-Evolution Mystery – Care2 … – Fossils of the oldest known turtles, unearthed in southwestern China, may help answer an evolutionary enigma—how did the turtle get its shell?

How the Turtle got It’s Shell… « Nirvana Peace – Xiao-chun Wu, a palaeontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa and a member of the research team, said: “Since the 1800s, there have been many hypotheses about the origin of the turtle shell. Now we have these fossils of the …

NeuroLogica Blog » Turtle on the Half-Shell – The turtle shell is a dramatic evolutionary adaption, and yet it appeared fully formed in the fossil record, so paleontologists could only speculate about its origins. A report is about to be published in the journal Nature by authors …

Evolution of Turtle Shell: The Mystery Gets Cracked Open by Scientists – Uncovered in south west China last year, Odontochelys semistestacea seems to be the oldest known turtle fossil – believed to date 220 million years back. More.

A Clue to the Evolutionary Riddle of How the Turtle Got Its Shell … – Says researcher Xiao-chun Wu: “Since the 1800s, there have been many hypotheses about the origin of the turtle shell. Now we have these fossils of the earliest known turtle. They support the theory that the shell would have formed from …

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Juvenile Iganuas

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

The juvenile Iganua is mainly insectivorous.  It’s diet in captivity consists mainly of insects such as mealworms, earthworms and crickets , although vegetables and fruit are often accepted and included.  Although the adult Iganua is for the most part mainly and fundamentally a herbevoire, it sometimes accepts  fish as well as poultry – including chicken and turkey bird meat.  Overall in most cases insects are rarely consumed by adult iganuas.

Juvenile Iguana 5lbs (Pretty Bird) | Pet Supply Plus – Juvenile Iguana 5lbs (Pretty Bird). Posted by on May 31st, 2009 and filed under Exotic Pets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry …

Tetra T16591 Tetra Reed’s Juvenile Iguana Food, 9 Oz – reed’s juvenile iguana food, 9 oznutritious diet for iguanas. supplemented to meet reptile’s slow growth need. high in natural fibers. no animal byproducts. Manufactured: Tetra Price $20.99 on Monday 04. May 2009.

Juvenile Iguana Food (7oz) | Pet’s Chemist – Rep-Cal Juvenile Iguana Food is formulated to ensure proper growth and health by providing complete and balanced nutrition. It is veterinarian recommended food.

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It is a serious misconception that adult Iganuas  can thrive and live well and healthy on a diet of lettuce , tomatoes and mealworms.  To ensure that the Iganuas appetite  remains vibrant and sparked , it is important that the lizard’s menu be diversified overall if not day to day and on an ongoing basis.  It has been observed and noted by many authorities that Iganaus have been known to prefer the following foods :   green , yellow, kidney and baked beans , collard greens , grated carrots , cabbage , and apples , bannanas and grated mealworms ( for juvenile Iguana).

Iguana Feeding Information And It’s Eating Habits – In one of the shops of small animals in the terrarium of iguana i have even saw the inscription: “… the juveniles consume insects, with age they become strictly vegetarians ….” Can you think of that? And then you buy iguana in such shop …

Iguana Molting – Green Juvenile Iguana In Grass Molting, the process of reconstruction of skin that goes on for life. Usually occurs at 4-6 weeks in the spring, at summer may be more frequent, while in winter and during the mating period the intervals …

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Juvenile Iganuas

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

                   The juvenile Iganua is mainly insectivorous.  It’s diet in captivity consists mainly of insects such as mealworms, earthworms and crickets , although vegetables and fruit are often accepted and included.  Although the adult Iganua is for the most part mainly and fundamentally a herbevoire, it sometimes accepts  fish as well as poultry – including chicken and turkey bird meat.  Overall in most cases insects are rarely consumed by adult iganuas.

Juvenile Iguana 5lbs (Pretty Bird) | Pet Supply Plus – Juvenile Iguana 5lbs (Pretty Bird). Posted by on May 31st, 2009 and filed under Exotic Pets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry …

Tetra T16591 Tetra Reed’s Juvenile Iguana Food, 9 Oz – reed’s juvenile iguana food, 9 oznutritious diet for iguanas. supplemented to meet reptile’s slow growth need. high in natural fibers. no animal byproducts. Manufactured: Tetra Price $20.99 on Monday 04. May 2009.

Juvenile Iguana Food (7oz) | Pet’s Chemist – Rep-Cal Juvenile Iguana Food is formulated to ensure proper growth and health by providing complete and balanced nutrition. It is veterinarian recommended food.

FLUKER IGUANA DIET JUVENILE 4 OZ – FLUKER IGUANA DIET JUVENILE 4 OZ. FLUKER IGUANA DIET JUVENILE 4 OZ. Buy/More Info.

 

                     It is a serious misconception that adult Iganuas  can thrive and live well and healthy on a diet of lettuce , tomatoes and mealworms.  To ensure that the Iganuas appetite  remains vibrant and sparked , it is important that the lizard’s menu be diversified overall if not day to day and on an ongoing basis.  It has been observed and noted by many authorities that Iganaus have been known to prefer the following foods :   green , yellow, kidney and baked beans , collard greens , grated carrots , cabbage , and apples , bannanas and grated mealworms ( for juvenile Iguana).

Iguana Feeding Information And It’s Eating Habits – In one of the shops of small animals in the terrarium of iguana i have even saw the inscription: “… the juveniles consume insects, with age they become strictly vegetarians ….” Can you think of that? And then you buy iguana in such shop …

Iguana Molting – Green Juvenile Iguana In Grass Molting, the process of reconstruction of skin that goes on for life. Usually occurs at 4-6 weeks in the spring, at summer may be more frequent, while in winter and during the mating period the intervals …

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Hemipene & Cloaca

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

All reptiles practice internal fertilization .  In all modern forms ,   except for the tautara ,  the male has an organ turned outside in , in the base and basal areas of the tail area , and everted through the opening of the cloaca during erection.   In the tautara  the and this transfer of sperm is accomplished by bringing the genital openings into contact as in birds and avian creatures.  Perhaps this is a left over vestigial remnant of dinosaur harbingers.   This of course was probably the means and mechanism as the method used by ancestral reptiles -  it is most clear in any case and cases , that the penis and penises had separate origins in turtles, crocodiles and mammals , on the one hand , and in most lizards and snakes on the other side.

Thus , male lizards as well as snakes , not just one , but indeed a full pair and pairing of what are essentially hollow structures called or referred to as  “hemipenes” ,   which make up what are in effect  “copulatory”  organs .  Located as amazingly they are ,  in the tail areas ,  behind the opening of the cloaca , these hemipenes often give  the tail of the male reptiles , a thicker more gradually  contoured tail than that of the females  .  In many species the sex of the reptile can be distinguished by this difference – which is sometimes rather slight in some.

A “groove”  serves as the channel for the sperm .  This groove extends from the opening of the sperm duct  extends from the opening of the sperm duct along the inner wall  ( which of course serves as the outer wall during the erection period / periods), of the hemipenis,   and the surface may be pleated or set with actual spines which keep it in place in the oviduct of the female during mating.   Either one of the hemipenes may be used , but only one and only one.   The hemipene nearest to the female is everted and protruded  from the cloaca during the erectile period .  This is brought into effect by both a combination and combinations of muscular action and muscular actions  and distension of the very walls with blood and blood fluids.

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Reptiles

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

A proper reptile to begin with is a vertebrate animal.  It has scales , breathes air , not water, characteristically lays shelled eggs an depends on outside sources for its heat and warmth.   There are in the world and on the globe only five main animals that fit into this group and grouping.   They are in sequence – turtles , lizards , the snakes  the crocodillians and the most strange and odd including a strange little creature called the tuatara , which somehow looks remarkably like a lizard but is not.  Indeed tuatara , a native creature of New Zealand is in grave danger of becoming extinct.

In this latest range of geologic history. there are approximately 6,000 species of reptiles scattered around the earth.  Though reptiles are most diverse as well as numerous in warmer climes and regions . they range as far northward as well turning up as far north as Sweden, Siberia as well as other colder climates that you would think would not harbor and sustain these creatures.  Reptiles as well inhabit desert areas of the planet.

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