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Lrptls
03-21-04, 01:34 PM
do you think he looks healthy?
AHLizards
03-21-04, 01:53 PM
yes, maybe a bit dehydrated but other than that, he looks pretty alert.
Lrptls
03-21-04, 01:55 PM
he has a nice sized water bowl for him to submerge but should i help get him wet while hes sheding? (i do sometimes, i hold him and mist him with a spray bottle which he really enjoys)
sketchy4
03-21-04, 02:15 PM
looks pretty good to me.
liquid_dragon
03-21-04, 02:16 PM
nice you will enjoy him he looks great
AHLizards
03-21-04, 02:48 PM
Give him a soak. try and find a way to raise the humidity a bit in his enclosure. savannahs aren't pure desert dwellers. Do you have a screen lid?? Get a piece of wood cut to the size of your tank so it fits inside and put a small area of screen for ventilation, or just drill some holes. It'l help alot.
Lrptls
03-21-04, 02:59 PM
well i'm really trying to find a nice cage for him or find something i can make into a monitor cage. so for now i taped newspaper to the screen lid, the humidity went up alot when i did that.
AHLizards
03-21-04, 04:02 PM
thats good.. Really, you can make a cage cheap! pickup some wood and make a box..... then put a lid on it. If you don't care to much what it looks like you can do it quite economically.
Lrptls
03-21-04, 04:27 PM
whats the best kind of wood to use?
AHLizards
03-21-04, 09:08 PM
plywood is great! just give it a treatment to proof it a bit. For all my lizards, I use plastic paint, just add a couple coats and its pretty waterproofed.
Gregg M
03-22-04, 12:07 PM
That is exactly the way a sav should look....... It does not look dehydrated at all........ Alot of people over feed them and they become overweight......... They are not supposed to be fat lumps of lizard....... That fold of skin on the side is perfect and that is how it should look...... It is very bad for a sav of any animal to be overweight........ It can be just as deadly as any other problem caused by bad husbandry.... Also if you keep a sav too humid it WILL develop sores on the bottom of its feet...... Absesses can be a big pain in the arse for you and your sav....... In some parts of their range they live in very arrid areas....... Dry is good...... The only humidity it needs is from it water dish and thats it.......
AHLizards
03-22-04, 12:55 PM
I said dehydration just because of the dry spots on the animal... Raising humidity helps that. The animal looks healthy, but needs a bit more humidity.
SHvar
03-22-04, 02:36 PM
Looks ok, if you keep them properly they wont get obese actually, they will grow long and thin but eat like mad. I mean by 130+ f basking spots at least STV length, deep digable substrate that the animal can burrow in (theres where the moisture needed occurs). On the subject of moisture or humidity its been said that 40-65% humidity is about right, but the animals come from a semi-arid to arid grassland or farmers fields and woodland areas and as most reptile populations near a permanent water source, they can do with lower humidity (dry) but prefer average or slightly above humidity. The only problem Ive noticed over the years with abcesses on their feet is from allowing them to be on a hard surface too much and no access to soft digable substrate. Ive had a few that were chubby when they were small for a few months but when they crapped they were thin again, if the animal is obese in appearance with an empty stomach then you know to adjust its diet. I never needed to worry about that until they were almost full grown, then I adjusted to prevent obesity.