Care Sheet for Alligator LizardsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 4.38 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 06/02/2004 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Alligator Lizards |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Otterwater |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | North central alligator lizards/live birth type |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | Norht Central Alligator Lizards |
Sexing and Characteristics: | One male one female, from same brood |
Mostly Active During: | Day |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Change water daily, gardeners sand change every month, I have added bark and stcks as well as native stones and leaves to create a comfortable enviornment. |
Lighting and UVB: | Natural sun, I will take them out of doors to play on a tree or walk on the lawn or in a safe spot that they can roam around in and feel wild. I also allow direct sun in through windows. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Temperature is as the day goes. I try to keep them in a more natural situation, but not to hot or cold 55-85 degrees ferinhiet, the bay area is perfectly humid for them. |
Heating and Equipment: | None |
Caging Provided: | Five gallon tank, but they probably spend 50% of their time out. They usually need supervision in the day time unless they are sound asleep under a shirt or pillow. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | Crickets, meal worms and king meal worms, on occasion they will eat smoked salmon, water melon or cantaloupe, but these are too high in sugar and salt, so I avoid feeding them such foods anymore. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | I dust all of my crickets or worms with a mixture of calcium and vitamins 50-50 ratio. |
Maintenance: | They are easy to care for but they do like to get your attention so you will let them out to play. |
Some Words on this Species: | They like to roam, and are very inquisative. The male used to rather ornery, but I made up a song for him and it calms him down. They take a while to domesticate, and they will bite and poop or pee on you, but if you are patient, and do not approach them from behind, they are pretty friendly, and I have found that mine have become rather needy at times being that they will get restless when you want to put them back in their tank and beg to come back out by rushing to the edge of the tank and staring at me or wiggleing around to get my attention.
They do make odd noises as small conversational spunds some are obvious as the sound that they make when you pick them up when they wish to run around, and it is to late in the evening. When they were babies they made an odd chirping noise on occassion.
They have names and they do respond when called |
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