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08-04-15, 05:38 PM
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Recognize This Lizard?
Hey there!
I found this lizard living in a bush by my house. He seems domesticated. He doesn't run away and will climb up to on top of your head when we picked him up. I googled general lists of domesticated and native missouri lizards and he doesn't quite look like any of them that I saw.
He is medium to dark gray/brown with orange/red markings on his back. He has little horn-like things that protrude from the back of his head. He's maybe 6 inches long. He also REALLY likes climbing. He's constantly trying to get to the highest place available to him.
If anybody is able to identify it, do they know the best way to care for one? Or if he's wild if I should just let him loose again?
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08-05-15, 01:53 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Could you try posting some different pics through photobucket or somewhere similar? Pics of the head would be good.
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08-05-15, 02:24 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Nice find! No idea what exactly he is but resembles an armadillo lizard. I'm by no means sure that's what it is tbough.
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08-05-15, 02:27 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
abronia lythrochila? (Arboreal alligator lizard) ?
does it have red on it's lips?
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08-05-15, 02:36 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
I was thinking abronia too...
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08-05-15, 02:45 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
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Originally Posted by SnoopySnake
I was thinking abronia too...
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If it is i'm sooo jealous.. they're not popular in the pet trade where I am.. A friend just picked up a red lipped one today its gorgeous.
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08-05-15, 03:29 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
I'll have to get more pictures when I get home! Some of the pictures of the Abronia look pretty similar, though
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08-05-15, 08:36 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Here's more pictures of him!
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08-05-15, 08:43 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Definitely an abronia
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08-05-15, 08:44 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
I'd get rid of the rocks and get him on a substrate like dirt or mulch, these will hold humidity much better. Other than that he looks good, id shoot for a basking spot at 100-120 f warn end 90's cool end 80's and humidity should be 50-70% throughout the enclosure. The rocks are also rather unsanitary. And like the others, he is a abronia, and congrats on a awesome new pet
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08-05-15, 08:55 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Very cool, definitely abronia.
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08-05-15, 09:21 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Awesome! Thanks for all the information! It'll really help out! And thanks everyone for helping to identify him! His name is now Gaius Julius Ceasar Augustus Germanicus!
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08-05-15, 10:46 PM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
He's your pet, but the reason i suggest getting him off the rocks is feces and urate will get trapped beneath the rocks and cause bacteria to grow. I suggest reading up on bioactive substrates, i keep my geckos on this substrate and display crazy behaviour.
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08-06-15, 05:58 AM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
Well, it's actually all soil already. There's just rocks in the corner on top of the soil. But we'll take those out if they're a problem.
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08-06-15, 08:18 AM
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Re: Recognize This Lizard?
So long as you're willing to clean them, I don't see them as a problem. =)
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