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Okay, I'm now up to 5 igs and 2 beardies... the beardies are housed separately, but get to free roam occasionally. 2 of the igs are babies, housed separately because of their size, they're TINY. The remaining consist of 1 adult male ig, 1 really-small-for-his-age male ig(juvenile size) and a juvenile unsexed spiny-tailed ig. These 3 free roam together in a spare bedroom, one basking spot, and several warm spots (basking has mercury vapor bulb, others are ceramic heaters, and belly heat) They each share the basking spot evenly, piling on top of each other, and occasionally slink off to a dark warm spot individually. My question comes to feeding the different species. The spiny tailed ig needs insects, and seems to prefer only that over any greens, starving himself until I give in and give him insects. With his size, he loses weight rapidly, so I give in easily. I understand their diet to be very similar to the beardies, so put them together to see how things would go, being similar in size. They got along very well, but Diesel, the spiny tail, HATED being in a cage, and would not eat. After a week and a half, I put him back to free roaming. Unfortunately, I do not have a place to feed Diesel separately, and any place Diesel can get, Nemo can get, and Nemo LOVES insects... so I've discovered. SO... with only one room to use for free roaming space, and 3 igs who HATE cages.... Exactly what should I do to keep Diesel's food safe from Nemo without separating them? Also, how do I get Diesel to eat greens, so that he may get water? He's dehydrated, I've been soaking him, but no change. He WON'T drink on his own, I've been syringe feeding him 1cc of pedialyte every 3 days just to keep his hydration up, but his tail is still very sunken in. He's been to the vet, checks out fine, no parasites, and the pedialyte is per vet's order. But this is the first spiny tail I've ever dealt with, and was wondering if any of you might have suggestions...? He was a rescue, from my back yard. (Neighbor kid's, his mom made him let it go)
Thanks for any and all help!
Alli Marie
( I did post this on the cyclura forum, but wanted to ask here, too, as I know some of you - Jiffy - also keep cyclura)

First, how long have you had the Spinytail and what species is it? Second, how large (or small) is he? Third, what kind of insects are you feeding him? I have more but let's start with that. If you want to contact me off the forum, please feel free to email me at jiffypop61@hotmail.com. Welcome to the world of Spinys!