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robyn@ProExotics
at Tue Jan 6 17:39:07 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by robyn@ProExotics ]
they digest nice and slow? says who? once again, with bad setups, and poor temps, certainly metabolism is slow, but when setup properly, and given access to what they need, metabolism is as fast as any other lizard.
look down the forum for the pics of the rescued neighbor Uro, that animal was PLENTY fat, and plenty overweight.
i am not trying to hammer at you Mark, and it is nothing personal, but take your thoughts back to base, and rebuild from there. saying that digestion is NICE and slow (there is nothing nice about a slow, sluggish metabolism!), and they can't (or won't) get fat, you have bought into the Okey-Doke of crappy Uro husbandry, where folks treat the Uro lizard like some kind of kingsnake, with their setups, temps, cooling, feeding, and metabolism thought.
folks made the same mistakes with monitors (that has changed in the last 5 or 6 years) and Gilas (still stuck on snake-like husbandry). THINK ABOUT IT! why would you keep a desert lizard like a snake? what would be the problems and consequences of doing so?
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not to dwell on a point... - robyn@ProExotics, Tue Jan 6 17:39:07 2004