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Late vintage.....

Took a pic while I was cleaning the tanks. Thats the most recent offspring of my Timon lepidus

Regards

Ingo

Your right about that, use it or lose it!

Are these from one clutch?
How’s there temper in general?

Other then beauty I don’t know anything about lacertas.
Rgds

Thats from two clutches. An unwanted surplus. I had planned for 10 hatchlings and then I found 12 more in theri parents tank at the same day, the babies hatched in the incubator.
Timon lepidus is one of the least agressive lacertids. You can raise babies together fro several months and even the faster growing ones do not harm the smaller ones.
Even the adults areamazingly friendly. I even keep 2,2 together in a larger (1.9 x 1.9 meters) tank.
For other lacertids this can be very different. Gallotia hatchlings start killing each other right out of the egg and as aggressive are the adults...

Best regards

Ingo

They sure look tempting, but I am committed to acanthosaura and gonocephalus, plus they get pretty big! At least for the type of set-up I am working with presently.

If you have time, Id love to see a large male in your hands, it gives me a better idea of real size.

Rgds

Yes, they need space. But most specimens do not reach record sizes my two males have not fully reached 2 ft.
I do not have the kind of pic available, you asked for. But maybe I will make up for that.
Slightly off topic, but since you are talking about lizards size:
Here you see a pic showing the size of my largest G. bellii male in comparison to a basilisk male
http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto.asp?userid=Ingo&album_id=48637&image_id=310

And here you see a pic showing the size of my female oustaleti. ..the male is like 30% larger

These animals are one reason, why I do not have too many tanks. The tanks I do have, have to be relatively big...

Best rgeards

Ingo