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well gratings and hello from the new guy, and now about my Lizards.

I am currently begining the proces of breeding Emerald Swifts, so far, I have been quite unsuccesful at finding a female. Since there quite un common on the pet trade since the allot more uglier than the male. The male has bright blue strips on his crest and belly, he has a teal tail, and bright green body. The female is well colar less, she has no black collar like the male, and no blue stripes, she's just plain brown all over.

I even tried to order the Lizards from the pet shop's provider. They sent me another male. Now all the guides I read says males are extremly terrotorial, so I was sceptical when bothing both together. supprisingly, they haven't even done nothing. But the new lizard seems to reserve his terrotorial pushups to me. He borrows his snount and flings the sand at me. But he shows all these terrotorial signs when I'm a arround, and heflings it at me wile looking at me. (and he's quite good with his sand ammo.)

Is this normal for two males to never fight, the sleep on the same branch, seems quite uncommon.

The new one is quite more active, when he get's picked up and blows himself up like a ballon, he borows himsel under the dirt. The other reallyjust sits on a rock all day and eats crickets.

If I do get females what would you recomend, would the two males fight, since i Am intending to ge two females. But I guess since they don't fight for terretory so should they fight for females. The terrarium is 50gallons so it's pretty large.

Anyhow, I have a small web sectiob contaning pictures.

I love the Emerald swift, they are mighty asy to maintain, just lots of heat and 40% humidity.

My Emeradl Swifts

The males will most likely fight like crazy if you get some females in the tank with them. I keep 3 females and 1 male in each tank (60 gallon) so the males don't fight. When I tried to put the males together before with females in the same tank, the males fought all the time. Even my females fought at first but they finally settled down and now get along great. I don't know where you live, but it is easy to find females here in southern California. I see them all the time in reptile places, and for only about ten bucks.

And remember one thing that is important about the emerald swift. Like I said to the other poster, it is important to not keep them too hot. They come from high elevation forests in Mexico, and they like the nights cool and the days warm and humid, but not blisteringly hot. They should have a place to cool off if they want to in their tank away from the heat lamp.

the tampature kinda varies by day to day. Since the terrarium is an open top. (Still has ascreeen.) I have tons of litter, about 2,5 inches of litter, and tehy do burrow alot under it, there are alot of accessories about, mainly all plastic open log trees. They thend to burrow under from the openeing in the trees. I spray them often maybe 1 or twice a day, depending on the day, I leave the Humidity about 40 to 50. It's been a little hard latly.

Currently I live in Ontario Canada, and weve been hi by 3 weeks of heavy 60% humidity, or average yesterday was 87% humidity. so I haven't sprayed them much lately.

I found few pet shops who let you order the animals since of the low demend on reptiles they have littlew in store you order instead.

The terarium varies in the 90 - 100 degres in the basking spots. and in the night betwen 50 to 60, so I guess that's ok.

Thnaks for the advice, I taught the same as when I introduce a few females they might attack each other.