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But with nothing bad to report, gladly. I was just curious if for an iguana to be changing colors is fairly common or not. I noticed that ziggy looked darker and his colors were a little more renounced and vivid than usual. I picked him up and he hugged me and ran around on my shirt and shoulder and head and neck and he seemed as good as ever.

I was also wondering what it meant when they start eating a LOT and if I should feed him as much as he wants to eat or to limit his diet. He's not that big yet, but geeze does he like to eat. His apatite seemed to sextuple after a week or two.

>>But with nothing bad to report, gladly. I was just curious if for an iguana to be changing colors is fairly common or not. I noticed that ziggy looked darker and his colors were a little more renounced and vivid than usual. I picked him up and he hugged me and ran around on my shirt and shoulder and head and neck and he seemed as good as ever.
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>>I was also wondering what it meant when they start eating a LOT and if I should feed him as much as he wants to eat or to limit his diet. He's not that big yet, but geeze does he like to eat. His apatite seemed to sextuple after a week or two.

Basically what you are seeing is the iguana finally settling in and getting back on track for a healthy life.
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Oh. Well, that's not what I expected, but is certainly great. He seems to be enjoying his baths now, too. Or, at least tolerating them. XD

They do eat a lot! I feed mine as much as he wants, but not after 4pm. I don't want him to sleep and get cold on a full tummy. Like most lizards, mine gets darker when he's cold, and when something is happening that he doesn't especially like. If I hold him and walk near other certain reptiles, he darkens. He's also darker in the morning than the afternoon.

4 P.M., huh? So do you take out all of his food at that time, or just not give him more?

Oh, I was also wondering if I should be doing something for Ziggy. He wants to run around in my room, as I know quite clearly considering that he's always squirming to jump on my bed and then running to the end of it as fast as he can to jump to the floor. So, should I just let him run? I hate not letting him, but I really don't want to lose him. That would be ridiculous on my part, and he would be easy to lose in the jumble of mess called my bedroom. I have an open-door closet with my clothes hanging up in it and a bunch of stuff sitting on the floor, and a bed in front of my bed and a TV. It'd be really easy to lose him. But I figure, what do other people do? Would he come back? I'd be watching him of course, but once he jumps from my bed to under my brother's bed, I won't see him and I've lost him this way before. Luckily, I looked bad and he was simply sitting ontop of my bed while I turned the room upside down looking for him. I know that his personality is a curious one and he seems to love to adventure and get to know new things, because he's never afraid of things, he's usually more interested in them than he is afraid, and he always acts like he's observing things.

There's basically one thing I can have him do, and that's let him run around on my bed while I watch him the whole time and grab him everytime he tries to run off and then put him closer to me. Sometimes he'll run up to the mirror on my headboard, jump up onto a ledge under it, and sit there for a long time, staring at himself and sometimes clawing at it as if in wonder. So, should I do something to let him run around more?