Just wondering how many of you who live in the collared's natural range keep your lizards outdoors for all or part of the year. If so can you post pics of your enclosures?
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Outdoor enclosures?
brhaco
Apr 22, 2007 02:46 PM
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chris_mcmartin
Apr 27, 2007 08:23 PM
>>Just wondering how many of you who live in the collared's natural range keep your lizards outdoors for all or part of the year. If so can you post pics of your enclosures?
I don't currently have any collareds yet but my ideal enclosure would be a 10' metal cattle tank, with a rock pile in the middle (such that the lizards wouldn't be able to jump from the rocks over the edge of the tank), with the rocks sticking up higher than the rim of the tank itself so you could look right at the lizards instead of down into the tank, no wires/screen or anything in the way. Of course, you'd have to leave the drain unplugged lest the collared enclosure become a slider enclosure. 
I had a few collareds back when I was a kid (none of them long-term; I didn't have the knowledge or community in which to share said knowledge to know how to keep them going for more than a year), and I had them in a 6' x 6' outdoor pen (during the summer) which was homemade--wooden frame with aluminum flashing for the sides so they couldn't climb out; it was about 2.5 feet high.
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