Hi, elgariophiles.
Just thot I'd mention a couple of feeding anecdotes. I brought home a really big "potato bug" (Jerusalem cricket) for a female multicarinata I had recently brought home, and dumped the bug into the terrarium. Well, as soon as I saw the relative size of lizard and insect, I thought the bug was WAY too big for the lizard, but before I could reach in and grab the bug, the lizard lunged and grabbed it by the neck and chewed, stretching the neck out, then worked its jaws over the head and mashed that up for a while, then swallowed head-first. Well, the bug's abdomen was "too big," but the most of the guts squirted out and followed the body down the lizard's throat. I got the definite impression the lizard knew what it was doing! Urrp. Another time, I lost an adult desert banded gecko in the house where I was renting a room, and the homeowner found it and put it into the wrong terrarium (on purpose, I think), and I came home and found my big male AL all bulged out like a sausage. Can ALs look happy, or is that just in the eye of the beholder?
Don Tate, SLO