Hello, yes I'm another new person here. I've never really had a chance to keep an iguana until recently when I moved out of my parents house (I'm 21). I love reptiles and iguanas are pretty interesting, so I started saving up money and building a cage for him/her to sleep in, bought the necessary lighting for it, bought vegitables, everything needed to keep it. I then checked over my room (which is where it lives now) and made sure that it could roam freely in there and wander around and get to windows to bask in the sun and to check out the activity outside.
After all this double checking I scouted out pet stores locally and one place I didn't even want to look at the poor reptiles in the cage, it was dark and a 20 gallon tank for 2 iguanas that were a good 2 1/2 feet long.
Continued my search and decided to buy the iguana I wanted from PetCo took it home and placed it into it's cage that I made to get it used to movements and used to everything going on. It was doing good for a while (bought it in early April) then I started trying to tame it slowly by talking to it petting it, and he was fine with that but I still waited about a month before trying to hold him, which still hasent turned out good, he's constantly rolling around in my hands and whipping his tail at me and he also gets scared just when I put my hands in his tank. I don't know what to do about this, I've gone back to not holding him but he gets free roam of my bedroom, which is a pretty big area, a tree to climb by a window, he returns to his cage at night to sleep and stays in there when I'm not home. I really honestly have no idea how old it is at all, but when I bought it they said it was about 4 weeks old and I've had it since April.
Do you think it will calm down with age? Or what should I do?
Sorry for the use of the word it so much I'm still not completely sure if my iguana is a male or female but it's name is Morry.
Thanks for the help
Remember that your iglet feels like you are going to eat it, especially when they are small they are very much a source of food for other animals. If you can stop your ig from rolling in your hands and hold it till it calms down, that will help. Tempest loves a good head scratch once he's settled. To stop him from rolling, I hold him from underneath with two fingers between his front legs and another finger behind each front leg, with my thumb over his back (except he's too big now), though he still gets going pretty good on me.
mine loves bananas and will do just about anything for them.. i hand feed them to him when ever he gets them..
