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It looks like I'm on the way to adopting a rescue iguana. Well, it's my first iggy, as well. He's not an adult yet, but I'm building his cage for adult size, planning to keep the same cage indefinetly. I'm planning a 4' wide - 4' tall - 3'/4' wide cage. Are those going to work? (He's a male, btw, I believe) I'm going to use a PVC frame, with coated wire mesh held on by cable ties.

For food, I'm going to use one of Melissa Kaplan's numerous iguana diet recipes. Any ones that are particularly good versus others?

Also, my final and primary point, does anyone know of a checklist I can go down? I don't want to forget something at the last moment, even though its 2-3 months away.

Cage seems a little small... Try 6 feet high by 9 feet long and 4 feet wide (OR BIGGER!!!) the 4foot is too small for an adult...
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Heather, Vern, Andy, Router, April And OODLES of fish

Hmm.. wondering if you live some place warm. We get cold winters here and it's much easier to heat an enclosed cage and keep humidity up too.
as far as a mininium checklist Melissa Kaplan's book Green Igs for Dummies has a good one on page 28-29.
The ultimate Iguana Manual by Hatfield has alot of tips and information about building a habitat that I wish I had when we build Kam's enclosure. It would have saved us some modifications.
btw reptisun 5.0s tend to be cheaper online.

Cage is definately too small, although if you're going with PVC and mesh it won't be hard to expand later on and still use those materials again. PVC and mesh will not be warm enough unless you live somewhere thats quite warm year round. I live in Canada, and have a solid sided enclosure and still have to blanket it in the winter months to keep him warm enough. Otherwise, anapsid.org, greenigsociety.org are excellent places to start reading up on things for sure.