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Hey,

I have 3 collared lizards..

a couple c.collaris and 1 female bisinctoris

The female collaris is for 2 weeks al lot broader then the other two. She also haves Very bright orange spots..
She digs also more then normal and eats not to much.

she is now 10 months old.

Greetz

Maurice

Hey,

Maurice

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Yep, she's gravid, as her girth and the orange banding indicate. You should provide her with a nesting site PRONTO, as some will retain their eggs if a suitable site for laying eggs is not found, and this can increase the risk of egg-binding. You can make a quick nesting site by walling off an area with bricks or something similar and filling it with damp sand, then cover it with a flat object such as a ceramic tile. Make sure nothing can be dislodged and the bricks are firmly on the bottom of the enclosure, so the lizards can't tunnel under them and get mashed if they shift. Leave an access crack in the tile cover just large enough to allow your female to be able to get to the dampened sand easily, and she should find it attractive and do her digging there. When she emerges looking much thinner, you will know she has finished laying.
And:
I'll go out on a limb and "guess" that the female pictured may be a C. collaris rather than a C. bicinctores, as the anterior collar looks a bit narrow and her snout seems sort of blunt for a C. bicinctores.
Here is a picture of a female C. bicinctores.

I'm almost always wrong though.

LOL

DC
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I've got the blues...LOL...them screamin' yellow-head blues...

Real cute female, wonder if the owner would send me one, heheeehhehehehe LOL
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Eve

LOL. I like the male you got, too.

May have to catch some of those myself, someday. Depends on how well they lay on the off-season. ROFL.

DC
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I've got the blues...LOL...them screamin' yellow-head blues...

I love them, I always thought they looked cool, Others I know said, ah, they are just brown, and common.

But they are much prettier when you actually see them. I'm also very surprised they are not more popular.

I know most DO think ahhhh brown lizards.... But the males are very nicely colored indeed ! Almost look like C. Vestiguim, same shape head and face and tail, just different pattern and colors. I should have got them a long time ago !

I'm very pleased ! And the girls are also pretty, very girly, hehehe ! And lightly colored !

I will enjoy seeing small ones for sure!
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Eve

hey brown lizards are beautiful too, just not as flashy as the other colors. it is pretty funny because sometimes when i take the lizards with me to the pet store, i get a crowd of people who just tell me how beautiful the lizards look. i think it is their hint of other colors that make them so pretty. too bad it doed not show in pictures though.

and a random question...why does walter keep trying to mate with milly when she is not showing any signs of being gravid? i have not seen him touch ivan this time but that is twice now that i have seen him try with milly and get rejected. are his little hormones just in a tither?
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

and mate with a female who's rejecting them, only to find about a week later, shes ready. So he may know something that you don't
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Eve

and all this time i just thought he was my big dumb boy! i can't ever see milly submitting to him. she doesn't just run away, she does the whole flip thing. oh well i guess we will have to wait and see. he is alot bigger than her! ivan ate a whole bunch of crickets yesterday, i guess an egg shifted off of her stomach. it made me happy!
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

The female on the picture is a collaris collaris..

I also have a bisinctoris and looks very much the samen as eve's one..

Greetz

Maurice

What means gravid? I'm from holland and I don;t know all words

Do you mean Pregnant?

Greetz

Maurice

going to lay eggs ,

By the way your girl looks very pretty, sounds as if she will lay soon !

Welcome to the forum, glad to have you !

Let us know, how she does ! Keep the pics coming, we like collared pictures!
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Eve

owke eve!

I wil post some more pictures soon

I like this forum very much and I will stay here for a while I think..

Collareds RULE

Greetz

Maurice

Crotaphytus collaris collaris 1.1
Crotaphtyus collaris Bisinctoris 0.1

AHHHHH come on, TO KNOW US IS TO LOVE US !!!

And COLLAREDS do RULE!!!
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Eve

i just caught on as to why you said "tither" maybe if i learned how to type it would have made more sense! just knock of the T and put a D in its place
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

Can't count all my errors, Hhehehehe !

Hows your newly orange colored girl?
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Eve

well, little ivanski ate a couple days ago, a whole bunch but today she would chase crickets but i never actually saw her eat one. she mostly has been sitting in the sun, being all orange and whatnot. i think walter scared her today though because he jumped down from the side of the tank on top of her and she almost bit him. i have never seen that happen before. milly has been hiding all day, i think from walter. i even took the rock out so she would wake up and get some sun and all she did was dig a hole underneath ivan's egg box and hide again. i took her out and put the rock back in so she would be more comfortable. there aren't any wound marks on her so i guess she is just mad and him and giving him the cold collared shoulder. how are the eggs doing?
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***