Lizard Test

[Kelly Mc]

OK lets try it again ... Gallotia galloti palmae cb 7/2/10 ... named Cachao

[El Garia]

Kelly - I sent you a pm

[KevinS]

He's a beauty!

[Sam Bacchini]

How is this a test, did I miss something?

Beautiful lizard!

[Kelly Mc]

Haha i hope so - I was trying out my new gadget and testing posting a pic, and it put a link up that i couldnt change. It put the whole roll on including videos of me singing to my cat and an accidental 'On' one where i was making my girlfriend listen to me practice how i am going to say no to a holiday thing i dont want to go to.

El Garia I got your pm about it - thanks

Yes that is the largest of my males. He likes naners.

[Bullfrog]

That lizard is a handsome dude!

[Tuataurifer]

Are you reproducing these guys?

[Kelly Mc]

My group is progeny of a pair that I was keeping for a herpetologist who needed the room to focus on his stehlini, with the agreement I could keep any babies in exchange. I have no plans to breed them for the pet market, no.

[justinm]

He's a pretty cool looking lizard for sure. What's the story on these. Are there regulations against them being brought in? Why wouldn't you want to breed them. I'm guessing that lizard keepers would go nuts for these guys.

[Kelly Mc]

There are a couple people in the US that breed them and other gallotia. I'm not interested in breeding these sibs. Not interested in producing any reptiles presently. They are actually kind of high maintenance extremely quarrelsome , right out of the egg.

[regalringneck]

... after that pix came into focus ... one word came to mind ... geebus ...

[Kelly Mc]

The thing with these guys is they are extremely dashy, require large enclosures with very stable artifact, and they have unpredictable behaviors even in pairs. Females also, cannot be housed together reliably. They mean business - will kill a subordinate.

If you see footage of them in open biome you will note fast,constant power plays between individuals.

Because of their omnivorous habits - they have broad assessment and memory frames with non moving food items and in working with them i have encorperated some of my observations/methods in habituating other (more oblgate insectivore) species - to habituate to thawed insects.

My reason for doing this is, for my own investigative curiousity in exploring how food is assessed and accepted, and also because, for the GP mainstream lizard pet owner, the continued acquisition and upkeep of live insects has identified itself to be the number one reason for relinquishment of their pet.

I have 2 groups of leopard geckos that have been habituated to accept thawed crickets and dubia, without forceps, an Auffenbergs Monitor and all of my bearded dragons i have had for the past few years. They are easy. The leos are a little trickier, sometimes they 'reset' if offered live crickets in equal or significant proportion, but 4 seperate individuals sold as adults continue to eat thawed from a dish, and all but one are owned by kids or young teens.