Care Sheet for Fence LizardsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 4.50 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 06/04/2007 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Fence Lizards |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Kd snake |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Western Fence Lizards |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | Western Fence Lizards or more popular name Blue Bellied Lizards |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Males have yellow under their legs. |
Mostly Active During: | Day |
Substrate and Water Needs: | You should change the water dish every day. And the water dish should be big enough to fully emerge themselves.
You can use many kinds of substrates. I use regular soil. Keep it about a couple inches thick, because they like to burrow in winter. |
Lighting and UVB: | Put a UVB light and put the cage in a place were sun will reach them. The UVB lights only give a small percentage of what they need for Vitamin D3. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Put the light on one side of the cage, and under that put a rock or a branch under it to use it as a basking spot. It should be up to 95 F on the basking spot, on the other side it should be about 70 F. The humidity should be fine if you have the water dish. |
Heating and Equipment: | You can put a heating pad under the cage for when they burrow they stay warm. They enjoy that (it works great when I tried it). Have rocks in the cage, and a branch for them. |
Caging Provided: | Western fence lizards are fairly small so you can have a 2 gallon cage for a young one. A 5 gallon cage for a full adult, and for 2-4 a 10 gallon tank with a screen top. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | You only need to feed them about 50 crickets a week, or however long it is until there isn’t any left in the cage. The crickets should be about as big (or smaller) than the width of the lizards mouth. Leave some lettuce in for the crickets so they don’t die before the lizards eat them because the lizards will NOT eat dead crickets. You can catch all sorts of bugs in your backyard. They also enjoy them because it give them variety and it can be fun to you. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | You can put a couple crickets in that reptile vitamin powder. |
Maintenance: | Keep the water clean, and wipe the sides, and change the substrate if you have something other in the cage then soil. The soil will decompose it, but if its smelling you can change it.
For handling the lizards just let them rest on your hand. They enjoy the warmth of your hand, but be gentle because they are hurt easily.They can become very fond of you. I’ve had one that when i put my hand in the cage it ran up and jumped on my hand. |
Some Words on this Species: | To get one you can often catch one from the wild as a baby or an adult. |
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