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Is it good to use the wet towel or moss high humidity hides boxes for smaller rhinos? I have seen a few cages with them but not sure if the lizard would even use it.

i have never had shedding problems with rhinos.. i think that they prob would eat the moss anyways.. so that could be bad maybe(who knows?).. a normal hidebox works fine.. just spray the rhino now and then.. and keep the air humid at a minimum of 60%(pref 80-90%).. keeping the water dish near a heatpad or spotlight usually makes the air enough humid..

make sure water cant splash on the spotlight or it can crack or explode if the temp contrast is too high.. and water on a heatpad is a electric fire waiting to happen..

That is a beautiful lewesi. what is the source of breeder?

Thanks =)
She is only a yearling and is said to be from a pure bloodline.

The breeder is juergen schmidt from Austria.. (i live in sweden)

http://www.cyclura.eu/en//
he is the biggest fiji iguana and cyclura breeder in europe..

im still waiting on a male to hatch.. so i can get her a boyfriend =)

Do you know what I find works really well? Including orange and yellow colored veggies(like winter squash, carrots, and yam)in the salad really gives them nice healthy skin and beautiful colors. The orange and yellow color veggies have a lot of beta-carotene and vitamin A necessary for healthy skin and shed. I use the winter squash more because it has the least calcium oxalate and high amount of fiber which is good for everyday, normal, bowel movement. Carrots and yams turned directly into sugar and have a lot of calcium oxalate, but I do include them as part of a varied diet every two weeks or so for a few days. Parsnips has a lot of vitamin A also and is commonly available Europe, more so than in the U.S. Parsnips is probably the most nutritious veggie in the world, possibly the most benign. Not only does it contain vitamin A, but also is also packed with protein! My iguana loves them when I grate it for him on a cheese grater. He likes it better that way! [chuckle] It's a textural thing.... lol

Do yo use parsnips as the most vegitable in you're daily mixture then (along with dark greens)? I am in US and we have parsnips here but they are expensive so I use Squash, Carrots, Green Peppers for vegitable, with the Dark Greens every day. The problem with the parsnips is they come in a big package, thats why they cost so much, I wish they made smaller packages or lasted longer in the crisper. I end up wasting a lot of dark greens because they come in a huge huge bundle but only run around 1.00 for that huge bundle.

Actually, no.... The hard veggies include parsnips and winter squash, and I even throw in carrots and sweet potatoes occasionally to varied the diet. Green beans he likes them fresh not frozen, so that's part of the veggies. They make up like 50% of the salad and 50% dark leafy greens. Right now he prefers the hard veggies over leafy greens...opposite to when he was young. [shrug] they're great, but some iguanas don't go for it I heard. That's kindda funny because both my green and spiny goes for that first. Well, my spiny goes for the parsnips first thing and my green goes for the winter squash, then the parsnip.... If I run out of money, I just feed less parsnips and more of other stuff. I feed them turnip bulbs also... Oh, man! Eric loves turnips! Beans in the endible pods have protein too. Asparagus is pretty close in nutritional value to parsnips. It doesn't have to be the same.... You can change it from week to week. Just use the good greens as the base if you need to. Beans in the edible pods and winter squash you can use along with the greens with every feeding. Winter squash is easy to grow.... Right now it's the season for it.

I forgot to add I got snap peas as well. For some reason they were expensive, I will prolly just switch to the regular beans you buy by the pound for cheap. Both crispers full of iguana and bearded dragon food and 0 things for me in there, wonderfull sight