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I recently was forced to house my egyptian uro with my chuck and desert ig, because his powersun blew out. He is about the size of my chuckwalla so I thought nothing of it. Much to my horrific suprise, when I returned from work to check up on them, I found me adult desert ig dead, missing all of it's tail, and it's head completely crushed. My uro looked very full. What the f!@#, I thought these guys where vegetarians. I know they love insects but this lizard was nowhere small enought to eat. They all had fresh greens given to them, too. It is not my uro's fault, it was my ignorance, but I am very sad and suprised at what happened. Is this weird or what, I have never heard of this before?

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vonnie
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Sorry for your loss.

But mixing species is a bad idea...as you now know. They are vegetarians but aggression will come out when the uro or iguana feel insecure or threatened. Uros have been known in the wild to pick at carrion so possibly the eating was a by-product after a fight or burst of aggression? Not sure but either way it's happened and their's no going back.

The uro would probably have been fine for a day or two without his/her powersun bulb as long as the house temp isn't too cold but it's too late now and all we can do is learn from our mistakes.

Again, sorry for your loss and I hope you have better luck in the future.
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Chris Vanderwees

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I'm very sorry, and I'm sure you dont need anyone to preach about housing them together.

I will say having an egyptian, they can be very aggressive at times with their own kind, let alone another lizard or 2 in your case.

That egyptian should NOT have been with a chuck or desert iggy, I own all 3 species, an iggy is pretty timid most of the time and stood no chance against the uro's powerful jaws!

Its a shame, again sorry for your horrible loss.

Always remember as far as your only basking light burning out
In a pinch, you can always use a regular house light bulb 100 watt until you get to the store!

Take it easy!
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Eve

Due to a lack of space i caged my bearded dragon with one of my uros, Brioche, for several months in a row. Everything seemed to be ok until one day, when i arrived home, i found my beautiful yellow beardie with a dry gangrene at the end of his tail due to my uro's bite!

A few moths ago i allowed my beautiful adult male iguana to enter the house while TREX--another big adult male--was resting on top of one closet. TREX jumped on Thor's back as soon as he crossed the door.Thor turned his neck to defend himself, tore TREX dewlap and ate it!I thought iguanas were vegetarian but he ate his opponent dewlap with great pleasure!

I just put in a 50 watt bulb for a day until I could get the 150 watt bulb.