As promised, pics of my rescues.

[Nafun]

Now that they're finally settled in, and more importantly I've managed to take some in focus pictures, I've got some pictures of my rescues.

First up is Yoshi, he's a Chinese Water Dragon. He has a stubbed tail from a previous owner, I don't know the story. He is a very personable lizard, begs to get out, will sit on your shoulder all day. He loves to swim, (took him down to the pond swimming with me this week), and loves being outside. He was fed a very monotonous diet of earthworms in his previous home. I'm trying to get him onto a more appropriate varied diet of insects/meat/fruit but he's resistant. He'll take crickets easily and meal worms reluctantly, but has shown no interest whatsoever in anything else. I was reluctant to take this guy, but I'm so glad I did. He has made me into a lizard lover. From his size I believe he's a male.





This is Iggy. He was "rescued" from a pet store by his previous owner, but they didn't really treat him much better. He's under size for his age, presumably from malnutrition. He was getting greens and fruit, but no veggies, which should make up almost half of an iguana's diet. He had also never been handled and was completely wild. They hadn't even given him a name. Two short weeks of TLC and he'll let both me and my wife handle him without fear. Some people just don't make the effort. His brown markings are actually a striking orange color under natural light. I think he's male as well, since he has a dewlap.




This is Bocce. She's a little bitch. When she's handled, she hisses, so her previous owners didn't handle her. They also didn't give her a name. They stopped offering her food three weeks before I took her, so I offered her a rat on the next "feeding day". Amazingly, she ate readily just two days after arriving. Now she's in shed, and while she still hisses when touched, she hasn't struck at me, I have hopes. She's not quite full grown, and her gender is undetermined.




This is the big guy, Dodge. He's a full grown (or close to it) ball, and he has been a handful. He outright refuses to take prekilled or frozen thawed prey. He, likewise, wasn't fed for three weeks before given to me, and he also accepted food readily two days later. Unfortunately, every single picture I have of him, is him eating. He's about three to three and a half feet long, about as thick as a coke bottle, and from his weight, I assume he has an adamantium skeleton. He had a name when I got him, but I changed it, as it was the same name as my beloved childhood turtle.




And this is a giant burrito.

[percey39]

Great pics, im very jealous of the iguana. Great looking snakes aswell.

[DeesBalls]

I can't see the pictures, just blue boxes.... but I are the burritos and now im hungery for Mexican food lol. Wish I could view the pictures

[king216]

That iguana is amazing

[Nafun]

Hmm, my photos are hosted on imageshack, do you have imageshack blacklisted in your browser?

[infernalis]

They display fine here??


I have some salsa a chopped jalapeño peppers for that burrito.

[marvelfreak]

Yoshi is so sweet looking. How big do they get? Now that is a giant burrito.

[shaunyboy]

what temperature and humidity requirements do those burritos need ?

do you get any morph's or hybrids ?

what size of tank do you need for one that size ?

do you feed them tin cans ? (must have some set of teeth on them,do you use a hook? )

yoshi is way cool mate.looks like a wee mini dinasour,love the colours under his chin.

iggy looks like one very fast looking lizard and cool with it.

cheers shaun

[Nafun]

That's a 14lb burrito I made last summer. It took 3 of us 3 day to eat it, however, I did eat a 6lb section of it on a bet in under 5 minutes.

I'm trying to train Yoshi to be "free range" in the reptile room, since he seems to enjoy that a lot. Iggy is unbelievably fast.