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I HAVE A PAIR OF ZEBRA-TAIL LIZARDS AND THEY ARE NOT EATING WHAT CAN I FEED THEM? WHAT TO THEY EAT?

How Big are they?
What have you tried feeding them?

I had a large male collard lizard (wild caught) that would eat spiders & crickets for about a month then wouldn't eat for about a week then spiders & crickets for about a month and again wouldn't eat for about a week one day during the no eating period I dropped in couple side bloched lizards instant feeding responce and continued eating spiders & crickets. After that one side bloched every week or two never stopped eating after that.
Had him about 11 years.

THEY ARE ABOUT 41/2-5 INCH I TRY CRICKETS,WAXWORMS,ANTS AND SMALL MEALWORMS THEY ARE SO SKINNY HELP!
THANKS

Zebra tail lizards like it HOT. They need to be kept at a temperature gradient which includes a hot spot of like 100 degrees. If they are kept too cold, it could affect their eating. I have my zebra tails in a 40 gallon breeder tank which is 36 long x 19 wide x 13.5 high. I have 2/3 of the tank with ESU Lizard Litter Jungle Mix substrate (they like to burrow) and 1/3 masonry sand, separated by a "mountain range" of rocks. I have several large basking rocks, a 150W basking light at one end, a ReptiSun 5.0 UVB light, and 2 75W tubular incandescent bulbs in a Combo-lite fixture. I feed them crickets and waxworms, which they eagerly accept. The little female zebra tail now knows to get excited when she sees me with a plastic bag, she dances up and down and runs back and forth along the front of the tank until I put the crickets into the deep glass feeding bowl. She leaps into the bowl and eats until she's a little golf ball. The male prefers the escapees from the bowl.

hey esther i try my best and they dont eat so im thinking of gave them away so if you can e-mail me at pimp_snapper@yahoo.com so we talk

thanks

You can't ship reptiles in the middle of the summer, and I have no room for more zebra tails. Sounds like a job for a reptile vet. Maybe they have a respiratory infection or parasites.