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Hello. Thanks to all the great folks who have shared their info on thise board,definitely some amazing animals here.
After a year of patient waiting, I'm finally the proud new owner of four beautiful 06 cinctum babies!...pinch me I'm dreamin!
Don't worry I've done all the homework I can find and bring 28 years of knowledge learned keeping other herps into this project.
What I'd love from all the veteran keepers of these awesome lizards is If there were 1 or two things you know now about keeping them you wished you learned before you got them what would they be. Thanks again

The two most important things that I have learned were that gilas need more humidity than you would expect from a desert dwelling animal and they also like to stay cooler than you would suspect. Best of luck with your new animals. Post some pictures of them when you get them all set up.

Oh, and babies are anything but "puppy dog tame"!

Brian Leibow

Well its been three weeks or so since the babies arrived and they are doing great. I find there behavior facinating, seem a lot more intelligent than the average herp. All four of mine have different (personalities) so to speak or I guess gilanalities. I think its funny how much creatures of habit they are. Every morning at dawn they emerge from there warm dens (paper towel roll), get a good drink of water then spend an hour or two in there humid hides...they repeat this process every evening usually too. There appetites are amazing, eating rat pinks like mad and digest them fast.
I also noticed they seem to like it much cooler than I expected 90% of the time I temp gun them they're between 78-82 even though there cage setups allow them to be anywhere from 70-about 95. Totally addicted, deposits in for next years babies and the cupboards are bare but I haven't been this into a species since I was a 5 year old with my first iguana! Wish more folks were sharing first hand info on them on this net though. Information I've found is very general at best and scarce at that.

Shoot,
Lets see some pics!!!

JasonMc