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hey all, can anyone give me information on collareds. How big they get, are they hard ot take care of, and so on. Also i'm building an outside micro habitat w/ a bond and forest area, do u htink i can put a couple of collareds in there? Will they be safe from the turtles?

David

well melissa kaplan has a great care sheet and there is also a pretty good care sheet on fancy collared lizards and a whole bunch of collared lizard links on the mountain boomer page. i don't know the actual addresses but if you type those names in a search they should pop up, at least they do for me.
i think that they are pretty hardy lizards when they are taken care of properly. my lizards are all about 10 inches long and they are mostly tail. collareds are a desert specie so i would not recommend putting them in a woodsy/ pond type area. my babies live on sand with minimal water. other people on the forum have outside enclosures so i will let them talk about that. anywho, that's my advice
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

I have caught a few collareds amongst the rocks of lakes...I would however be EXTREMELY worried about the turtles. I'm sure your lizards would be missing some tails if kept together.

I say scrap the turtle idea, and just go with collareds

They make exceptional micro habitat animals!

John Eddington

Thanks for the info. So the turltes would get to them eh? Well I have another area could mnake a small micro habitat....wut wold u recomend w/ the collareds? You think it owuld be to dangerous ot put the collareds in the same are of 400 square feet w/ water turtles? The pond isonly like 9 by 9 feet.

David

Hey,

I don't know if this helps, but I've kept Tortoises with my lizards, and many a lizard has lost part of its tail due to a clumsy, lumbering shell-back who wasn't watching where it was going. Water turtles might actually attack, but I've never seen stuff like that. Ok, I'll talk to you later.

-Phil

out of an old desert iguanas tail. IT almost severed the tail completely. I guess that slow walk feels unthreatening.

Maybe I missed it before, but I think you would be safer with something along those lines. Keep the habitat ideal for the collareds, away from the turtles, and they probably won't even know each other exhist

I have similar sized chuckwalla with my collareds, and also a large Yarrow Spiny lizard. I've also added a few red headed agama which seem to share the space adequately.

John