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Is their a easy differece between the two, or is one more common in the pet trade than the other? i got mine about a year and half ago and keep them in a 20 tall with ecto-earth bedding a shallow waterbowl, silkplants a ceramic toad and branch for climbing, a coconut hide and two ceramic jackolanterns for hiding in. i mist the tank down once a day and keep the substrate mostly moist but dryer on the very surface so their not always walking on wet ground but they can get to wet ground in their hides and under things.
they eat small crickets, and they lay eggs fairly often but sofar none have hatched though 2-3 looked like they might be fertile they either shriveled up or never hatched
i used to have three but the smallest one was found dead one morning with no obviuos external injurys but their was a discolored area on its chest ans upper stomache that looked like something internal was bleeding

I relaly love these little guys and im trying to get more and really hope i'll get fertile eggs that will hatch one of these days im not sure but i think my pair might be two females though i could have sworn the first fewtimes i checked them they were different genders

oh yeah i dont know if it makes a difference but the inside of mines mouthes are blue
i have recent pictures of one here under the iguanas pictures
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I used to have a holaspis guentheri (or laevis; can't tell the difference from the photos I've seen online) but s/he died recently. I got her/him (couldn't tell difference) from a local pet store that hasn't had any since that time (2002). I strongly suspect that I had too many medium-sized crickets in the cage with Lizzy and they killed her, but can't really say.

Were you able to tame your holaspis lizard? Mine was extremely skittish and hated being captured to take her out of her cage so I could clean it (once every couple of months -- I didn't do this often because it upset her). She lost her tail once when my son was trying to catch her to take her out for cage cleaning. (It really freaked him out to see the wiggling tail!)

She lived for 3 years with us and was a lovely lizard, though we didn't see her very much (she preferred to hide under the "cave" rock and plant dishes). When we first got her, we lost her after 2 days because she managed to get out of her cage. We thought she was a goner because we didn't find her after a few days. But 10 days later, my daughter saw something move out of the corner of her eye, and we found Liz sitting on a pillow -- she was weak and we easily caught her and put her in a more secure cage. She drank water and ate crickets immediately. She seemed to have survived that incredible experience well, but I wonder if that might have had something to do with her early death.... having weakened her constitution, being without food and water for so long.

Goodbye Lizzy, it was nice knowing you while we could.

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one of mine will eat out of my hand if i move slowley. lol i not sure which one it is there hard to tell apart. i see mine farly often basking ontop of hides and decorations, exploring, or hunting.
their alot of fun to watch when hunting, i've seen one walk over to the othe and drop a cricket infront of it, and the ohter one took it, i dont know if they ment to share but thats what it looked like. i've also seen them steal from each other, waiting for one to catch a crciket and then ruinning over and grabbing it.
i dont know what ther lifespan is so im hoping to atleast find a male so i can get a few babies i think they have the potential to become alot tamer if raised from babies but they'll probably never be an easily handleable lizard, let me know if you see a place selling them, i'll buy them out in a minute