My boyfriend often catches fencetail and alligator lizards where he works at an airport in Marin County, CA. Though he usually releases them, we decided to keep the most recent captive! He is a teen, very aggresive and fairly thin. The body is about two and half inches long, and the tail is over four inches, and has obviously never been shed.

After looking at a lot of pictures online, he resembles the Oregon Alli liz the most. Is it unlikely to find an oregon lizard this far into california?

Since he's still small, we got him a 5.5 gal tank and filled it with repti-bark bedding, a big piece of driftwood, and a heatlamp. I put mealworms in a bowl with reptocal and scattered tiny crickets around the tank. It's been a few hours, and he's just hanging out.

Questions:
If he doesn't eat, how long before I should be concerned?
Is it necessary to buy an undertank heater?

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