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My husband brought home an Alligator lizard yesterday. I am scrambling to set up the proper habitat for it. Right now I have it in a 10 gal aquarium, but will get a larger one on pay day. I believe this one is a female. I am not sure of age, nor sub-species. Any help would be great. She looks to have lost her tail at one point, but it has grown back. She is missing a hind foot. Will it grow back? I will try to attach a picture.

Here is another picture.

The foot won't grow back. It does look like a female and she looks pretty heavy. She's likely gravid so make sure you supplement with lots of calcium and gutload the insects. I really like the rep-cal with vitamin D3 for my als. You should also set up a hide box with some damp substrate so that she can lay her eggs when the time comes.

-Alice

Thanks Alice. I will be sure to do that soon as she has been digging a bit at night.

Looks like California subspecies of Southern alligator lizard to me.

The easiest way to identify subspecies is to look at a range map -

http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/e.m.multicarinata.html
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3.6 L. getula californiae - 16 eggs (Cal. King)
1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)