These are mostly herbiverous, an occassional king meal worm once in awhile is appreciated. They do not like the real high temps that some other desert chucks seem to, they are morning and afternoon animals seem to bask in the morning when it gets real hot they go into there burrow or hiding place. These animals dig, so if you have them outside a burrow set up is a good idea, if not a large hide box might be benifical. The are very tame, I feed mine hibiscus, rose pedals, dandilion, some bok choy, spring mix, and many other types of plants. I would recomend if you don't have them in a cage that you at leat give them a 6 x 3 x 2 cage as they should have room to move around in. Angel Island is located in Baja California and they are indiginous to this island and some of the other surrounding islands. Unless there is something wrong with your husbandry I have hardly ever seen one of these animals get sick, they are very hardy. I think keeping a male and two females is a good combo, but then you would also need a much larger cage.

I live in S. California and keep mine outside through the year, have a red light over the hide box during the winter to take the chill off. They do hibernate but on warm days they will come out and bask. I hope this helps a little, Tom Greb and others on this site can also give comments as they have these as well.

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