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Is there anyone that knows the area well enough to recommend some Chuck watching? I will be with my family and would love to look for some chucks during a day or two. We will be visiting the Hoover Dam/Grand Canyon.

If I find some will they be OK in the car? They like it hot, right? J/K I won't be bringing anything back...maybe a sunburn or two.

I am loving the chuck pictures. Nick/Ausin...that male pictured in the classified is really nice. I'm liking me those granites. If I ever slow down, I'd love to setup another enclosure.

Kind Regards,

John Eddington

in the area and they should be there. Also heard they are on the rocks right around the dam there but I have been there a couple times and have never seen them.

Tom

Thanks Tom...I'll take a look and hopefully grab some nice photobraphs to share.

What projects are you working on this year? Lizard projects...I don't care if you're cleaning windows (ha, ha)

J

Hi John,
Thanks, we are very fond of the granites also. We would not be getting rid of that young male, but we have too many from that blood line as it is.

Austin and I have seen chucks on the rocks right along the road leading up to the hoover dam from the Arizona side. We didn't stop for them, but you should be able to find some prety easily. Good luck. Hope to see pics.

Nick & Austin

I'll have my eyes locked on the rocks! I can't wait to have a look.

Regards,

John

Ya know I got a bit burnt out over the past few years. I got into some large ctenos of several species but man what a pain in the butt! I have never seen a lizard that hates its own species so much in my life except maybe humans. All they want to do is kill each other. Even the females. I ended up with a cluster---- of cages all containing one animal. It was a fiasco. So I ended up parting what I could out to friends and selling the rest. In fact I just sold my last 2 lone males to a guy in NY.
Over the past couple years I have dabbled in tortoises a little and now have 8 egyptians(kleinmmanni) and 7 eastern hermans(hermanni boetgeri) and I tell you what they are so much less maint that lizards. I really enjoy them and the kids do too.
Of course I still have the chucks: varius and ater. About 40 or so of them. They are my favorites as you know and I will have chucks until I die I think. LOL.
I was also into the blue rock lizards for a while. I got a couple good clutches over the past couple years but then I had problems with the females. The ones I was raising up from John C. became gravid way too young and ended up egg bound and croaking. Then may adult male bred the heck out of the female and just drug her down to nothing. She never recoveed from her last clutch and just sort of whithered away. So I ended up with a few males that I just sold off plus all the babies. They were really nice blue animals. Them and the babies are living in nice AZ sun now. I have seen them several times and you cannot believe the difference some natural sun can make. They live outdoors all year going down into hibernation nicely for 5 months out of the year and the intense blue they get is incredible.
So now I just have the chucks and the torts. How about you?

Tom

I have no lizards now at all. I lost my two chucks a while back, then my nicest collared didn't do well into hibernation. Got a nasty respiratory infection. I spent money at the vet which I don't have much faith in anymore. At least not this place. I think they took a guess on the meds. My experiences with meds and small lizards (oral antibiotics) is they stress them out, emaciate the crap out of them. Unless you're Eve and can have then under constant care etc. :O)

I think about getting more chucks. I do travel a bit now which makes committing to animals a big pain. BUT...my kids are getting more responsible now and can take care of the herps. I have a three red milksnakes and an albino garter is all.

Talk to you soon,

John