I have a juvvie Blasck Throat, in a 70 gallon glass tank. He needs a bigger space now, and I'm going to build him an enclosure that better suites his needs.
Anyway, yeaterday he must have found out that he could use his tail to lever himself up to the top lip of the cage. I have a piece of plywood on it, with a heavy lamp on the plywood. He must have exerted a lot of strength to push the plywood further back, and get out. So he suddenly was free-roaming. In addition to that danger, I have a terrier mix who is a hot-blooded killer. He killed one of my favorite C. similis when I turned my back while it was soaking in the tub. I almost re-homed him for that. So the first place I looked for my lizard was the place in the back yard where the dog puts down everything he carries out (he has fun picking up whatever he can find, and putting it in that one place in the yard). No dead lizard. So I searched the house for my dead lizard, really bummed, for about an hour, only to find him well and good, wedged behind the entertainment center, way back in there. It was hard to get him out He is amazingly strong.
It was a really bad discovery, with a good ending. I have to get busy on his new digs.
Roger
