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Hey, my first post on these forums so to tell you a little about myself I currently own 2 leopard geckos one sub-adult and one adult 33 gallon set up,2 bearded dragons 65 gallon set up and an emperor scorpion in a 15 gallon set up. Now im pretty good with lizards however I thought it would be cool to set up a 100 gallon tank with a few different types now I know its risky so I was thinking of putting mostly north american desert lizards in I am looking to get as much variety as I can. So any help would help out alot thanks in advance.

PS I will try to post some pics in the near future

heres some of the species of lizards that live in the south west of the US.
texas banded gecko
texas and southwestern earless lizard
speckaled and northern earless lizard
desert side blotched lizard
tree lizards
northern sagebrush lizard
twin spotted spiny lizard
crevice spiny lizard
long nose leopard lizards
desert grassland whiptail
great plains skink

I did not include the horned lizards as they are for specialists.also remember when doing a community tank to always keep the same size lizards together.hope it works out.for more help on community tanks try to contact antomn on the gecko forum.hope this helps
nick

Hi,

I do have a lot eof expreince with community tanks and I can tell you that this can work very well.
Anyhow, I would like to give you a warning: Do not think that 100g is big for a desert community tank.
Deserts are everything but densely populated and too much animals stress each other.
So for lizards of an averadge size of lets say 10", I would not put more than 2 pairs, that is 4 lizards in total into such a tank.
Also carefully select species (eg Leopard lizards and collared lizards can prey on surprisingly large other lizards).
Best is to combine a climber and a ground dweller or nocturnal and diurnal species.
If you have this in mind and do notovercrowd your tank, it can work very well.
I mainly have mixed species tanks since decades and I have good expereinces with respect to longevitry , agressivity and breeding succes for many species.

Hope that helps

Ingo

thanks for the help so you would say it would be best to have a day climber, night climber and a night/day lizard for on the ground? or did I read it wrong

Me again.... is there a few types you could suggest for a "starter community" thanks again

I said: Not more than two species.
If I should make you a suggestion: try one of the smaller whiptail species. Since these are parthenogenic, breeding success is easy and add a Coleonyx or a a small Sceloporus species.

Ci@o

Ingo