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i wish i could have one baby of the-or 2-i would love to see what there kids looked like-but thinking about it now-i don't wanna put alot of iguanas out of homes-if there is a way for threm to have only 2 or 3 babies let me know-cause i really want themt o at least have 2 kids-

Nick

Iguanas lay LARGE clutches. they do not give live birth. So those two eggs you save may not be any good come hatch time. Iguanas lay up to 60 eggs. Do you REALLY want 60 lizards? If you dont know how they reprose and want to have "2 babies" then you need to go back to your books and read again. If those are recent pics then you cant know if you have a male and a female yet. There is NO way for them just to lay "one or two" eggs.
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Heather, Vern, Andy, Router, April And OODLES of fish

If you really, really want to have baby iguanas to keep one or two of the offspring, it takes some will. What you'll have to do first, is wait. Wait 5 or 6 years, and keep your igs extremelyl healthy, until they are an age thats appropriate to breed. Then you'll have to wait while your (you hope) female grows eggs, and hope she doesn't die from being egg bound. Once the eggs are laid, you'll have to crush or freeze the bulk of them, and keep only two or three. Those you'll have to incubate those eggs very carefully, and hatch them carefully, because you have no room for mistakes. If thats what you really want to do, all the more power to you, but do not introduce iguanas to the world that you will not be keeping directly.

There is a part in the "Breeding" chapter in Hatfield's "The Ultimate Green Iguana Owner's Manual" that addresses wanting just a few babies. It might help you.