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I just got one last week and it is so funny it looks like a miniature tegu and it's super fast.

I've never own one, but seen plenty of them when I went hiking. I do know they like it really hot, though. When other lizard would hide from the heat you will see whiptails out and about doing their thing.

I think they are COOL, never owned one because I heard they will eat collareds and smaller lizards and have a ravanish appetite. But I like the way they look, I always liked tegus, and yeah they do resemble them.

Post a pic of your new whiptail, :0)
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PHEve / Eve

Eve-

Funny you should mention cannibalism in this context. When I was a teenager I added a six-lined racerunner I had managed to catch in FL to my community desert terrarium. This 30 gallon tank contained a pair of collareds and a leopard lizard. I came back to check an hour afterward, only to find the frantically lashing tail of the racerunner sticking out of the male collared's mouth! This even though the racerunner was slightly longer then he was!
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Brad Chambers
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The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

Wow! I was not saying collareds would not be a canibal, lol, I see my BIG ones eye up the baby ones at times

I was told by a buddy about the whiptail ( an adult) who nabbed a collared, and still seemed hungry.

Guess ya have to watch them all. Damn if ya see one of your kids missing.......... lol
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PHEve / Eve

I have kept a couple over the years. Lots of personality, and easy to care for.
I was given baby western whiptail one year, and he would come and eat crickets out of my hand.
They really are like little tegus, forked tongue and all.

Nick

I once caught one and put it in with one of my sonoran collareds. He ended up chewing it in half, lesson learned.
I do have several Tiger Whiptails that live in my yard. Had to chase one out of garage the other day. It went behind a box. When I lifted the box away from the wall, a med. gecko was stuck to the wall. Hopefully I can catch him to get it's photo.

found the whiptail covered in mites this mourning I had him in a quarantine tank outside and was going to put him my community tank today but then I found the mites the mites are all currently gone but how long should i keep in quarantine?