I would love you to quarrantine the female in an appropriate sized cage while still giving the male a full amount of space as well. However, you have not chosen to do that, in spite of obviously knowing what the suggested minimum WAS, right up until the moment that it became slightly inconvenient for you... which is why I tried to play the room I was in, rather than blow a lot of hot air about what somebody who was actually willing to spend a little money on a 20 dollar "junk lizard" would do.



This isn't me making things difficult, this is you buying two lizards for one minimal-sized tank and then getting cold feet (right when there were free hatchlings involved) and chopping their moving space in half. If suggesting that at this point you should have chosen the least of at least three evils makes me a psycho fatalist, then so be it.



If it makes you feel better, I've also been the wishy-washy guy who buys animals faster than he is actually ready to house them. But eventually I decided "psycho fatalist" had a more fun ring to it.



My first response to you was obviously very upsetting so I will try to simplify the answers this time, in order to not make this seem difficult:



Big male fight little female. If female be close to male size, though, then male love female. Owner have to be careful both eat. Love or not, strongest lizard still be greedy.



Me think lizard want lay eggs deep down, but deep down too hot. So she lay them in dryer level. Eggs dry out and die. Or, she dig down deep and eggs over-heat. In that case, eggs still dead. Nothing to dig for.



Eggs dead. Lizards need more room. If no want put lizards together, maybe good if breeder who want make more lizards be able to afford second tank. As they say in day when this dialect invented: perform gottagopupu ritual or get off volcano edge. Meanwhile, both lizard that you actually have still need room.



Me go now. Me party with cave-Sartre.
-----
0.1 2006 Western Hognose (Bebe)

0.1 age unknown Cane Toad (Hengo)

1.0 2006 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)

1.0 2006 Madagascan Speckled "Hognose" (Sigmund)

1.0 2008 Bullsnake (Winkle)

1.2 2008 Eastern Collared Lizards (Pancho, Lupe, and Chica)

2.0 2009 Eastern Collared Lizards (Cesar and Nino)

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Show Entire Thread ]