I found it in my apt when I came home. it's about 5 inch long with the tail and has two blue strip on the bottom. Does this have poison?
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what is this?
ziggie
May 22, 2003 05:00 PM
Replies (4)
ehuante
May 24, 2003 02:52 PM
it is a harmless blue belly fence lizard or western fence lizard, depending on wich state your in.
looks young feed him small crickets or bugs.
or release.
reproom
May 25, 2003 01:57 AM
If you were looking for a species they are called Sceloporous. There are several of them ranging all over the country. the males are the ones with the prominenet blue belly coloration. Some are live bearers and some are egg layers. We currently keep one species that is a live bearer. Very cool and interesting little lizards.
ziggie
May 27, 2003 05:52 PM
my roommate and I decide to keep it.
we got crickets for it, but not sure how often and how much we should feed it.
Esther
May 29, 2003 09:08 PM
Can't see the lizard clearly to ascertain the species, except it's a Sceloporus. It could eat 2-3 adult crickets in a feeding if it's a Yarrow's spiny or larger, and I feed mine every third day, with fill-in feedings of waxworms on the in-between days. Every third feeding of crickets, I sprinkle the crickets with calcium powder.
You should also have a UVB fluorescent light in addition to your basking light.
