Iguana help please!

snakemann87 · 04-09-03, 07:41 PM

Hey, as it turns out my long tailed was sick(as i shouldve known it was froma pet store). So i got my $$ back adn got a Spiny Tailed Iguana at a Reptile store. Can you guys give me some info, ill get a pic cuz i want to know what kind he is. thanks.

P.S.- if you can as soon as possible, everywhere i call has different answers and im confused!!!!!!!

Zoe · 04-09-03, 07:45 PM

While I am completely against you owning an iguana of any sort (any reptile, for that matter), as you obviously care more about money than the care of the animal (do you think they are going to pay for a vet at the store??), I have found some caresheets for you in hopes that you'll maybe use some information from it.
You should research an animal BEFORE you buy it.

http://www.reptilemall.com/caresheets/cteno.html

http://www.anapsid.org/cteno.html

http://www.herplife.co.uk/iguana/otherb.htm

04-09-03, 09:24 PM

I thought you knew better then to be an impulse buyer snakemann.

snakemann87 · 04-10-03, 09:16 AM

Zoe im not sure that was neccesary, but would you pay 10 for a lizard that is sick, and pay 60 to get him better?? I took him back the next day. I did read about them, i know their husbandry but I am confused on feeding. They were feeding him crickets etc. But others say veggies and fruits, so i am offerning him both.

Trace · 04-10-03, 09:30 AM

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but would you pay 10 for a lizard that is sick, and pay 60 to get him better??

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are reptiles (or pet for that matter) disposable animals? This kind of thinking drives me crazy! I have SO MANY chameleons that are dropped off here in various states of health, because people don't want to pay the vet bill. I got 4 within the last week. All have been taken to the vet now, some need meds, most are needing very specialized care daily to get them healthy again. Please PLEASE do not buy animals on impulse!

Trace

snakemann87 · 04-10-03, 12:29 PM

I agree that it is an animal, but I could see if I had gotten it a week or two ago, but i had it for 2 days. Can we please stop this subject and stay on the Spiny Tailed Iguana subject please? Anyone that owns them please tell me, and post some pics if possible.

Trace · 04-10-03, 01:05 PM

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I agree that it is an animal, but I could see if I had gotten it a week or two ago, but i had it for 2 days.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You shouldn't have gotten it in the first place! I'm sorry man, nothing gets me more upset than seeing people buy reptiles that can't care for them properly and this includes vet bills.

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ill get a pic cuz i want to know what kind he is.

And here you are asking for help when you don't even know what kind of iguana you have! How are we supposed to offer advice and tips???!?!?!

All righty, back to the Spiny Tail issue then as per your request... have you read the links that Zoe posted? There is a lot of good info there and I would just be repeating it here. I do work with a male Spiny Tailed Iguana, he's about 3 feet long and nasty! He is in a 3'x3'x6' enclosure with UV and basking areas. He is fed primarily good leafy greens, some fruits and some dog food.

Trace

ballpython5000 · 04-10-03, 01:29 PM

well snakemann you finally show your true colors.....after giving many lectures to many people about things you know nothing about, you went and made one of the biggest and ignorant mistakes possible. research, research, research. do all that stuff prior to getting any animal. and as to you regards about the retail value of the herp as oppsed to vet bills. i got my ball python for 95.00 and have spent 80.00 on vet bills alone. if you truly cared for that reptile you would have it treated, even if it were a 5.00 anole.
the best advice i can give you on the caresheet would be a google search, another thing you should have done prior.

snakemann87 · 04-10-03, 01:53 PM

Trace, I can care for him. I am just confused on feeding, so i started trying both, which he now takes both crickets, mealworms, and veggies. When I say what kind, i mean from what area, I am almost positive he is a Ctenosaura Similis. Trace do you have pics of him? And ballpython5000 im not even gonna reply to what you have said because you have no room for talking.

snakemann87 · 04-10-03, 01:53 PM

Trace, I can care for him. I am just confused on feeding, so i started trying both, which he now takes both crickets, mealworms, and veggies. When I say what kind, i mean from what area, I am almost positive he is a Ctenosaura Similis. Trace do you have pics of him? And ballpython5000 im not even gonna reply to what you have said because you have no room for talking.

ballpython5000 · 04-10-03, 01:58 PM

hmmm, a double poster. are ya that desperate for your almighty post count?

ballpython5000 · 04-10-03, 02:02 PM

snakemann, explain what you mean by i have no room for talking? well lets put it this way: i dont power post for respect, i dont buy burms when i have barely even tried a rtb, i dont lecture people about things i know nothing about, i dont pretend i know more then i actually do, i dont pretend im an expert, and im not an impulse buyer.
let me see....who fits that description that we know???

norman · 04-10-03, 02:40 PM

Well....this is starting to get interesting....
Snakemann, It is sad that you gave up on your LTGL so soon, Im sure that he could have recovered if you had given a s**t about it, but to you he was just 10 bucks,

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but would you pay 10 for a lizard that is sick, and pay 60 to get him better?? I took him back the next day.

It may only be a 10 dollar lizard, but the money you saved could have easily gone towards the vet bill. If you had read up on these lizards, you would know that they are imported by the millions, and it is veerrry common for a wild caught lizard to be plagued with parasites.
Personally, I love my little grass lizard. He is a real character. I have seen him sleep tripoding off of a curtain.
As for going in to buy one thing and deciding to take it back and get another, like it is a walkman that doesnt work or something, I think that is ridiculous. I like how you brought the lizard home and still dont even know what it eats!
Anyways...Ive gone off and rambled on... Feel free to pm me if you feel what i said was wrong.

04-10-03, 02:57 PM

this is all getting very interesting.

But seriously Snakemann, I thought you did know better then to be an impulse buyer. Well, I guess that's why they have reptile rescues right?

Zoe · 04-10-03, 02:57 PM

Wow snakemann, that's an awful thing to say. When you buy a LIVING, BREATING, FEELING animal, you enter into an unwritten contract : YOU are this animal's owner, YOU are it's only chance for survival (even more so when you're going to send it back to a petstore!), this animal is 100% dependant on YOU (scary thought...). Therefore you have an OBLIGATION to pay for any fees that might arise! Would you stop buying food for a lizard if you discovered it actually needed to be eating something more expensive? (it wouldnt surprise me...)
If this lizard was so obviously sick, why did you go and buy it in the first place? Now you've killed it for sure, sending it back to the store, where it'll be starve, stress, or be eaten.
I think don't think my comment was necessary, but I do think it was warranted.

And I agree with bp5000... you seem to reply to any post to see your own name, and I hate to tell ya, but it doesn't make you seem smart, especially not after throwing a poor little helpless lizard away after 2 days because you stupidely bought something that was sick.

Sometime's I think you say these things to make us sad.

Zoe