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This is my adult male C. collaris with a two year old (small) female chuckwalla cb by David Van Langen on the Chuck forum. It's pretty neat keeping the two types of lizards out in the lizard pen. By doing this, I found my male chuck has an affinity for crickets, and this female chuck goes crazy for superworms. I guess they'll grow out of this soon.

John E.

How do they get along? The Collareds and the Chucks, I didn't know that Collareds would tolerate other species being around.
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- Scott

the collareds will often back on the backs of the chucks...so no, there is not problems between the two of them.

John E.

Hey guys,

I wanted to throw my 2 cents in here. I used to keep my Mojave Collareds with a trio of Desert Iggs, and a pair of Chucks. They got along famously (no fighting; the species kind of stayed to themselves unless eating or basking), and as was said I noticed my Collareds' strange affinity for dandelion flowers, grapes, and other leafstuff, while my Chucks and Iggs ate mealworms and other caterpillar/grub style prey. It was weird, but the animals are all found in the same areas, (the Chucks and Collareds were from the same mountain), so if you give them enough room, its okay to keep them together, at least in my experience. There it is...... I'll talk to you all soon.

-Phil

Not necessarily for aggression, but I think a heavy chuck would smother a collared LOL. I notice they back together, but seldom sleep beneath the same rocks. My chucks are more active than the collareds usually...always walking around the pen...usually, they are the first awake too.

John E.

the reptile room together at times.

They bask togther and as far as Kong the collared who free roams with a female, sometimes the desert iggy will crawl under their huge rock and sleep with them all night .
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Eve / PHEve

Hey Johne,

Yeah, my Chucks were always pretty indiscriminate about where they'd plop down, and if a Collared happened to be in THEIR spot, the collared would turn into a strange, scaly pillow. Pretty funny to watch. As you also observed, the Chucks became basking spots after the Collareds freed themselves. I've seen pics of this in the wild too. Pretty funny. I'll talk to you all later.

-Phil

Thats nice. Do they pick up the Collareds and shake them before going to sleep? It might be neat to have a desert room with plexiglass walls and roof with all sorts of desert lizards. I bet you could keep banded geckos in there too huh? They're nocturnal, I think.
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0.1.1 Green Anoles 4 eggs
1.1 Easten Collared Lizards

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"If we destroy everything that makes this world beautiful, we might as well have nuked ourselves fifty years ago"
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Let there be Lizardz
- Scott

I kept a C. brevis (Texas banded Gecko) in my collared pen last year, and I could go out and see it at night. I had it for about 2 years inside, and it got very slim. I put it in my pen one evening, and didn't see if for about 2 months. I finally seen it one evening, and it was very healthy. Unfortunately, I was not able to find it before the season turned. It did not survive the Illinois winter.

John E.

geckos, and small, too. I have read that they do not need a whole lot of space because they aren't really active, and because they sre nocturnal, the only light you need is a red light for night viewing. Might be a good lizard to breed.
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0.1 Veiled Chameleon
0.1.1 Green Anoles 4 eggs
1.1 Easten Collared Lizards

"War and violence will continue, no matter how hard we try to stop it, until everybody realizes out that we are all stuck on this little planet."

"If we destroy everything that makes this world beautiful, we might as well have nuked ourselves fifty years ago"
- Scott

Let there be Lizardz
- Scott

They are so tiny, and delicate, they can succomb to dryness rather quickly. They are really neat though.