prettiest orange iggy i've ever seen

[snakegal12345]

His name is Chip (I named him). He's about 4 1/2 feet and he's got a female called Lizzie who is about 3-3 1/2 feet she would be bigger if Radiated tortosies didn't used to share her enclosure that nipped part of her tail off weird how herbivorous animals want a nip once in a while lol. I feel srry for her. They live aat Crystal Gardens here's chip :medbigsmi

[~Suntiger~]

He looks lovely!

[nguyen_inc]

every nice looking iggy

[JeffT]

Actually tortoises arent totally herbivores, they LOVE meat. Mine would dig right into killed pinkies and crickets and worms, actually It kinda got me thinking that aybe they are somewhat scavangers of not too long dead corpses int he wild. Anyways sorry to go on about something totally off topic

[Kyle Barker]

im glad you got pics of them, very pretty. They kept nibling on his tail because the bandages would have blood in them (red). man can he scratch!!!

[TheLizardQueen]

That's a gorgeous animal. I didn't realize that orange was a fairly common trait in Iguanas, but apparently it is. Does anyone know why they are orange? I know that some females can also turn orange so it can't be solely a hormonal thing. I adopted out a gorgeous orange female a few weeks ago who only turned that color after she laid her first set of eggs 4 years ago. My Iguana, L'il Jimmy, was rescued by me about 8 or 9 years ago and he was always orange, but at the time I thought that perhaps testosterone was the cause for it or else it could have been the fact that he was so ill and swollen with metabolic bone disease. Now I'm not so sure. I heard somewhere that it could be because of their origin, ie. Mexican.

Any ideas on this? It's something I've always wondered about.

Denise Ryder
www.4otis.com
e-mail: thelizardqueen@4otis.com

[snakegal12345]

and he is even more orange in person the female has lost at least a couple inches off her tail. The thing is i only see the tortoises vegies neever bugs

[snakegal12345]

oh and anyone who comes to Victoria has to come its exactly like rainforest and the animals are in great looking cages and theres an ibis that i taught to come on command and picks your feet lol

[sleddergirl]

My Sid turns orange when he's in the season for lovin'......8)