Meet Rococo - our new pet
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You know they get used to people by eating parts of them right?
What am I saying, of course you do, no one would be stupid enough to buy one without doing the proper research.
So have you marked out a limb for it to devour yet?
Always keen on getting a lizard of some description when I get my own place and a job. Would love to have a couple of these in a tank. Lovely little things and that one looks fantastic
:jealous:
Got to be careful with having more than one in a tank, as cute as they look they will fight
what lizards are suitable for free house roaming?
Got to be careful with having more than one in a tank, as cute as they look they will fight
Well in that case the winner gets a luxury lifestyle within its own massive tank
Multiple females are fine but the males fight other males.
First Reptile for us, I used to have a Chile Rose. So 2nd exotic pet
Multiple females are sometimes fine. Not always.
Multiple females are fine but the males fight other males.
First Reptile for us, I used to have a Chile Rose. So 2nd exotic pet
Cool
Search out the exotic pet thread, tonnes of info etc in there
My chile rose is boring
ad her about 6 months and she hasnt eaten yet LOLIts gettig silly now the amount of things we have...thinking about clearing the small bedroom out to keep more
Komodos!
perhaps I should rephrase, what lizards are suitable for house roaming and wont kill you.
Nice Gecko. No offence mate but I'd change that substrate (the cottony thing you have down on the bottom). It could easily snag her claws, ripping them off or worse. It's also going to be a pain to keep clean. Something like plain sand or aspen would be OK (they eat the sand but it passes through; do NOT use "Calci Sand" as it clumps like cat litter and can impact and kill them).
Give her a nice moist hide as well as the normal dry hides (one at each end of the thermal gradient). A margarine tub (or similar) placed upside down with a hole in the side (dog kennel style) is good, and you can just fill it with moist sphagnum moss. It helps them shed well and cool off, just keep it at the end away from the heat source.
If you get a male they're dead easy to breed (and fun!), but don't have more than one male as they fight. With a varied diet (crickets, locusts, mealworms, supers, waxworms etc) she'll be a belting pet for ya. I was breeding these things (and about 20 other species lol) from the age of 10 - welcome to the addiction!
PS: A red lamp in the evenings lets you watch them come out and explore, as they can't see the red spectrum and think it's dark. Great fun when you have a group of them and the male wants some sexy time. They all go mental haha
No offence mate but I'd change that substrate (the cottony thing you have down on the bottom). It could easily snag her claws, ripping them off or worse. It's also going to be a pain to keep clean. Something like plain sand or aspen would be OK (they eat the sand but it passes through; do NOT use "Calci Sand" as it clumps like cat litter and can impact and kill them). Give her a nice moist hide as well as the normal dry hides (one at each end of the thermal gradient). A margarine tub (or similar) placed upside down with a hole in the side (dog kennel style) is good, and you can just fill it with moist sphagnum moss. It helps them shed well and cool off, just keep it at the end away from the heat source.
If you get a male they're dead easy to breed (and fun!), but don't have more than one male as they fight. With a varied diet (crickets, locusts, mealworms, supers, waxworms etc) she'll be a belting pet for ya. I was breeding these things (and about 20 other species lol) from the age of 10 - welcome to the addiction!
PS: A red lamp in the evenings lets you watch them come out and explore, as they can't see the red spectrum and think it's dark. Great fun when you have a group of them and the male wants some sexy time. They all go mental haha
perhaps I should rephrase, what lizards are suitable for house roaming and wont kill you.
Ideally? None. They're not something you want to leave roaming around; for their own safety as much as anything. Though things like Green Iguanas (as opposed to the smaller, flightier Desert Iguana), Tegus, some varanids (Boscs etc) and the odd Blue Tongue like a roam every now and then under supervision.
I even had a leucistic Leopard Gecko once that used to run up my arm and sit on my shoulder every chance it got. The daft bugger went everywhere with me (around the house) given half a chance. Most aren't like that though so beware lol
Having a Bosc lounge in your living room while you watch TV can be pretty cool, but they do find trouble easily.
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I had a gecko once. One day i gave it some crickets as usual only to come back later and find that they had decided to eat the gecko which created a hole where you could see right through him. Sad times.
