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| 09/13/09 01:00am |
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Message To: Yasuda In reference to Message Id: 2071092 Western Fence lizard won’t eat, diet?
I feed all of my 11 lizards crickets, and some times grasshoppers that haven’t been around pesticides. |
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| 09/13/09 02:57am |
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Message To: Yasuda In reference to Message Id: 2071092 Western Fence lizard won’t eat, diet?
Give him a shallow water dish with a couple of rough granite rocks in it. Mine will lick moisture off the rocks. The rocks also help the crickets when they inevitably fall in the water bowl. Make sure he has places to hide and deep enough substrate to burrow in. I use aspen for bedding. Sometimes they just will not eat. I caught an adult male earlier this year who was bent on starving himself, so I released him under a wood pile with lots of ants, so he would have a chance. This was rare; all the other lizards I have caught seem overjoyed to get a lifetime supply of crickets! |
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| 09/13/09 09:31am |
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 2071149 Western Fence lizard won’t eat, diet?
If it’s bigger than a 2-3 inches, it’s not a baby. It will only eat small insects. Captive ones are primarily fed small live crickets & may refuse to eat in captivity especially when first captured. It’s probably stressed and you should just keep a cricket or so in the cage for a week or so to see if it eats. Let it be, and try not to stress it out, one of the best ways to encourage it to eat is leave it be. Fenceys will not drink much at all directly from a water source. Misting or spraying the cage is necessary. Though you can encourage one to try out the water by filling up the water bowl in the lizard’s clear line of vision. Lizards will look curiously at the stream of water hitting the dish & will often investigate it after your done filling or after filling it on multiple days. Using this method for weeks, I have seen both of my fence lizards at least checking out the water with taste & smell even if they weren’t drinking it. I don’t think their reflexes are normally set to taste and test to see is something is food like some other types of lizards do, so cutting up anything won’t work. I think they naturally just try and eat anything that moves & doesn’t look way to big for them. They WILL attempt to eat bugs to big for them, they do it in the wild as well, but in the wild when one dies because of eating something too big no one notices or cares. Most large crickets are too big, but don’t kill fence lizards. My female, Ginny loves the biggest fattest crickets they sell at petsmart, but she doesn’t get them hardly ever.  Gl with your pet(s) |
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| 09/13/09 07:37pm |
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Western Fence lizard won’t eat, diet?