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Here's a picture of one of our males.

John, the entire group is from West Texas. They were collected by Mike Webb (the guy who is selling the most WC collareds right now).

The males vary from rather ordinary in coloration to green to brilliant turqoise with bright yellow heads.

The females are from very plain to extremely orange.

Mark

Same male, slightly different angle.

More to come...

Mark

very nice color but they look kinda thin, we see the hip bones
hope you will fatten this up

I wish you the best of luck with the lizards...that guy is definately worth working with. He still looks in good shape to me...could use a few meals, but still looks good. I've had some that just go down the tubes within a couple days. I collected three for myself one year, and they did horrible for me. The male died within two weeks, and then one female died a month or two later. The only survivor of the group was a female. Ironically, she has completely busted her lower jaw in half. It healed, and she went on to survive. Crazy!!!

Now, I have reduced my collection down to one male, and four females. I plan to reduce it by one more female if I can fine her...I am keeping mine outside in a pen right now. I have a 36" deep pit dug in there that is filled with busted concrete, then topped off with landscape rocks...it gives them plenty of hides, as well as a good escape from extreme heat and damp conditions. Sometimes, they like to hide out for a few weeks. I hope they don't decide to hibernate early

Here is a pic of a pair of mine. They don't get as much to eat out there, because I let them rely mostly on the flowers to draw in the insects. I can see them catch flies all day long. There is some type of plant in there that attracts a lot of flies. The lizards hang out there, and pick them off. I am also experimenting with some different products for trapping insects, such as fly traps, yellow jacket traps, and japanese beetle traps. All are insecticide free, and rely on pheremones, or stink (LOL) to lure in the bugs. Just not quite hot enough to get the the product aromatized.

John Eddington

should be okay to work with, He will be something , nice emerald color in pic anyway!

Very NICE! Keep us updated on THE GANG !
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