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Hello,everyone I got a leopard lizard from a friend and she is gravid. I need help on incubation and feeding her and any info you guys have thanks Matt

I'm assuming you mean Gambelia wislizenii. I personally don't have experience incubating leopard lizard eggs.. yet, but from what I've found out is that there's not much difference from collared lizards. They're diet and care is pretty much the same. Only that they require a open ground space enclosure rather than height. Thik of them as actual leopards in the savannah. I feed my leopards dusted crickets and b. dubias. Sometimes I feed them mite-free lizards when available, but this is not necessary. You should dust you're gravid liz's food everytime, since they tend to feed less later on in their gravid stage. Read articles on collared lizards breeding/incubation technics for some ideas.
Here's a very good article on leopard lizards. Hope this helps... http://webspinners.com/coloherp/cb-news/archive/misc/leopard.php
I'm planning to breed leopard lizards myself next season.
Do you have a picture of her?

The long-nosed leopard lizard is a close cousin of collared lizards.

The basic basic requirements for incubation of eggs and care are the same as collareds. Once the eggs have been laid, provide water and food for your lizard.

Allow your leopard lizard a lot of room in the cage to explore and dig. They love to make holes in the sand. As for feeding, in the wild, they are predators. The like to eat smaller lizards but the leopard lizards I've had in the past have eaten crickets, mealworms and the ocassional anole/fence lizard as a treat. In the wild, the eat grasshoppers but live ones are hard to find in pet stores.

Leopard lizards calm down easily and make really hearty pets although leopard lizards and collared lizards are mortal enemies.

Good luck!

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Collared lizards 1.0
Leopard lizards 0.2

AWESOME BUNCH there !

Very NICE pic, hope everything has been good
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PHEve / Eve

These are truly nice ones... Have you bred them? I'm planning to breed mine next season.