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Curious how long it takes collared lizards to grow to adult size? I purchased 2 beautiful healthy babies from Paul macintosh and I'm obviously raising them in a separate enclosure from my adults but I'm wondering if it's going to be a very long time before I can mix them in. I research like a mad man but can't find any growth charts or anything like that. I still have awhile because they are only about 1/3 the mass of the others.

Hi, what sex are the babies and what sex are the adults you want to eventually put them with? That's important.

I put youngsters 4 months, or older in with adult females only. If your adults are male and female then the male can start mating them ( the youngsters) at a very early age, it is not healthy for a female to mate so young. You can run into egg binding and other stuff if they breed to young. I usually let my young females mate at about a year old. Males and females can begin mating as early as 8 months old. I have had some males get sexy even earlier.

So depending on what sex you kids are and adults will determine when or if they can be put together. If one of your adults is male and any of your babys are male then you do not want to mix the males ever.

Your kids should grow quite fast if well heated and fed. All grow at different rates, males may be larger and longer females broader or chunkier, shorter. They will shed very frequently as they are growing. Let them eat as much as they want, I feed my youngsters everyday.

As far as maturity many people do not know that even though at a year old your collared is a good size, or normal 12 inches or so with tail, they do not fully mature until 3 to 5 years, I'm not saying they continue to grow enormous, lol, but they can continue to color up, and change up till that time.

I had a big guy that was given to me by a good friend, he was an aquaflame wild caught, he was huge at 17 inches, the sweetest dude, I loved him and miss him always he was famous around here, lol, his name was KONG

This is an old photo of a few of my collareds C. collaris and some C. vestigium and KONG on the end. What a difference he was AWESOME

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Eve
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Suncharmers Colorful Collareds & Lotsa Leopards

Holy cow what a beast!!! Yea paul sent me what he says are 2 females. Not sure if you remember me emailing you about how someone sent me a trio I had problems sexing. We decided it was 2 definite males and 1 you were pretty confident was female. I gave 1 male to a friend so now I'm left with 1 young adult male and 1 young adult female. No matter what I'm going to give it time since these youngsters are small enough to be eaten. They are growing fast sucking down dubias and crickets like candy thanks again eve

Hey yeah, I definitely remember I did not recognize your user name here, sorry!

I have know n Paul for many years, he's a good guy! I got my first chuckwalla a zillion years ago from Paul :0) lol.

Your kids will be all grown up before you know it. They will be having their own lil kids. I wish you all the best with them.

Heres another older pic of KONG in comparison to my adult chuckwalla. He was such a big ole collared, hehehehe.

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Eve
suncharmers@yahoo.com
eva@suncharmers.com
Suncharmers Colorful Collareds & Lotsa Leopards

"the sweetest dude, I loved him and miss him always he was famous around here, lol, his name was Johne."

Ha ha. Great picture Eve. That vestigium is really cool with those yellow legs.

LMAO I just saw this post buddy, hahahaa your funny. No way you were 17 inches long either, I heard you were a bit on the small side, lol, for an adult, ROFLMAO

AHHH you deserved this.

Oh thanks for the compliment on the vestie.
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Eve
suncharmers@yahoo.com
eva@suncharmers.com
Suncharmers Colorful Collareds & Lotsa Leopards