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#2254015 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Post your animals This is Buddy, a bearded dragon: This is Zipper, a fence lizard I used to have: Post pics of all your animals!
02/05/12  03:07pm
#2254169 Chameleon_man View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254015  Post your animals [Image this is the only pic i can get to work :-) but i will try later to get more on.">
02/06/12  11:19am
#2254187 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Chameleon_man   In reference to Message Id: 2254169  Post your animals I don’t have any snakes but that one is really pretty!
02/06/12  12:37pm
#2254192 Chameleon_man View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254187  Post your animals thank you :-) i love him
02/06/12  01:01pm
#2254246 Old rex View Profile	Message To: Chameleon_man   In reference to Message Id: 2254192  Post your animals Hey chameleon-man did you ever find him? If not I hope you do that is a gorgeous snake. Rex is the red lizard and roxie is the yellow... maverick is the first snake and pheonix is the second
02/06/12  05:44pm
#2254266 Baja View Profile	Message To: Old rex   In reference to Message Id: 2254246  Post your animals I also have another green anole, 4 fish, and 2 hamsters.
02/06/12  06:51pm
#2254439 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Baja   In reference to Message Id: 2254266  Post your animals Wow! Your house must be full of animals, Baja! What is Oreo?
02/07/12  06:25pm
#2254714 Baja View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254439  Post your animals Oreo died Sadly. She was a longhaired giunea pig.
02/10/12  05:33pm
#2254918 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Baja   In reference to Message Id: 2254714  Post your animals Oh, thats sad :(
02/12/12  10:14am
#2254922 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254918  Post your animals Cabarton is a Red Bone Hound and Australian Shepherd mix. He can open our back door (although he is not a house dog)! This is his sister, Pebbles This is a funny picture of Pebbles Yesterday I went to my first Reptile expo expecting to come out empty handed, we bought a curly tailed lizard! I can’t get a good pic of her because she is skittish.
02/12/12  10:35am
#2254932 Old rex View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254922  Post your animals I’ve never heard of a curly tailed lizard? What are like? You know temperament and care?
02/12/12  12:58pm
#2254934 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Old rex   In reference to Message Id: 2254932  Post your animals This is my first one. Google one, when they are hunting or excited they either curl their tails or twitch them. Mine seems to switch her tail. I think they are skittish, mine is. Here is a caresheet I found :Link Are you thinking about getting one? Here is something ThesaurusRex said sometimes works for taming fence lizards: Quote: Ah, okay. Well, it’s all a matter of acclimation I suppose. Is his tank in your room or in a place where you are in most often? That always helps. I would recommend starting out with hand feeding. Try something like crickets first, if that doesn’t work try waxworms. He should be able to feel like he can just hop on your hand to get the waxworm. It may take a while, but this step is all to show him that your hand does no harm. After he’s okay with that, try just lightly stroking his back while he’s inside the tank. Do this for a while too. Eventually he should be totally used to your hand. And now for the next step, actually handling him. You’re going to want to slide your hand (With the palm of your hand facing the ground) below the lizard, not above, and then gently hover your index finger under his chin. Then rotate your hand, which in turn makes the lizard stand taller. Your middle finger should be under his belly, your index finger should be under his chin, and your thumb should be on top of his neck. The rest of your hand needs to support him. Support is KEY. Another way to do it is by approaching him from the front instead of the side, and using your middle finger to lift him up. Start with his chin, and then keep going down until you reach his belly. Slide the rest of your hand under him as well. He’s prone to try to escape and run into his hide, but this way he will be in control. The first way I told you should be the default way, though. Keep holding him, petting him, and etc. and he will get used to you. One other way I got mine used to handling is waiting until early morning to pick him up, when he’s real cold and hard to move. You may want to turn off the under-tank heater for this. Pick him up out of the substrate, and make sure he is supported by your fingers. Hold him and pet him until he warms up, then put him back in. Eventually, he’s going to realize that you’re a part of his daily life and will be perfectly willing to let you handle him. But it’s going to take a very long time. Remember, though, that these guys can be unpredictable, and decide to go off and explore at any given time, even if it looks like he’s okay! Mine doesn’t do that anymore, but he used to do it a lot.
02/12/12  01:27pm
#2254950 Kelso reptiles View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254934  Post your animals hers my ball python and albino patternless leo gecko i also have a mali but no pics
02/12/12  02:31pm
#2254953 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Kelso reptiles   In reference to Message Id: 2254950  Post your animals I like your snake! You have a mali uromastyx? I like those too.
02/12/12  02:40pm
#2254955 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254953  Post your animals Oh, can anyone think of a good name for my curly tailed lizard? It’s a female, I want something unique. Not a common person name.
02/12/12  02:43pm
#2254964 Kelso reptiles View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2254955  Post your animals thanks yeah i have a mali but no pics because he is so skitish if i even open the door to my room he will go nuts and lanch him self off he basking rock and into his cave some nice names could be curly, da kurlzz (thought about the band hollywood undead good band) other then that i cant think of anything
02/12/12  03:16pm
#2255114 This_Kids_ View Profile	Message To: Old rex   In reference to Message Id: 2254246  Post your animals old rex what kind of lizard is the first pic? very pretty
02/13/12  08:10pm
#2255119 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: This_Kids_   In reference to Message Id: 2255114  Post your animals Uromastyx.
02/13/12  08:57pm
#2255147 Old rex View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2255119  Post your animals Its called a u. Geryi or red Saharan uromastyx. The red guys are much less common. I also have a yellow one but idk what is up with her? Her growth is stunted I know my 6’x2’x2.5’ cage is high enough??? I got a blurry pic of her here she is She is probally 8 inches long? I bought her thinking g yeah she is really young and can’t wait till she gets bigger than Rex! But sadly that never happened. I dunno if I said this either but "old Rex" up there (my red ) is actually sick he has an intestinal disorder were water can’t escape fast enough.I want to take him to a vet but there aren’t ant around my small town. I think he is getting it because he is old though. I’ve given him the best and happiest life I possibly can so he lived his expectancy
02/13/12  10:49pm
#2256772 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Old rex   In reference to Message Id: 2255147  Post your animals Thats sad
02/24/12  08:02pm
#2256781 Old rex View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2256772  Post your animals Yeah but he has had a long happy life :) maybey ill get a breedding pair??
02/24/12  10:00pm
#2256989 Rae rae View Profile	Message To: Old rex   In reference to Message Id: 2256781  Post your animals These are my leos... This is Leu about 5 years old Flower around 7 years old Spency is around 3 Freckles is about 2 or 3 years...don’t remember. And I breed mice as well.. And this is Nina...I have 2 Chihuahuas though...the other one is Mario...but no pics.
02/27/12  12:05am
#2257006 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Rae rae   In reference to Message Id: 2256989  Post your animals I like Spency and flower! I used to have a leo. Thanks for posting pics!
02/27/12  08:53am
#2257111 Rae rae View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2257006  Post your animals Thanks! They are my favorite reptile. I think I show more pics of them to people than I do my kids lol! I’ve never heard of your lizard...looks pretty cool. Where do they originate...what kind of environment do they need?
02/28/12  12:17am
#2257150 Lizard girl 4 View Profile	Message To: Rae rae   In reference to Message Id: 2257111  Post your animals I wish my parents would let our two lizards on the Christmas card Curly tailed lizards come from Haiti, Florida I think, Trinidad, Thailand and the Caribbean. They like plants and climbing trees.
02/28/12  01:44pm
#2257218 Rae rae View Profile	Message To: Lizard girl 4   In reference to Message Id: 2257150  Post your animals Sounds pretty cool. I love reptiles...all of them lol!
02/29/12  12:45am

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