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EXAMPLES of SMALL LIZARDS

That Can Make Nice Pets.

The fat-tailed gecko stays small, is friendly, is inexpensive, available at many pet stores, and is easily fed vitamin and calcium-dusted crickets.

As with all reptiles, they need gentle warmth, which is provided here by heating tapes under the sand (or one could use hot rocks or heating pads). They climb some, but not a lot---and need a low saucer of clean water to lap water out of.

Another commonly-purchased gecko is the leopard gecko---with a beautiful gold/yellow pattern.

They stay about the same size as fat-tailed geckos, no bigger than about six inches long. Eats crickets. They also make very nice pets.

There are many beautiful, interesting small lizards that can be purchase quite inexpensively in pet stores---and used to populate excellently-configured small herpetariums.

Here's an artistic (dark) shot of a flat rock lizard, designed by nature to slip into small cracks between rocks. Eats crickets. Fun to have, but you hardly see him as he's much more shy than the geckos above and likes to stay hidden in his cave.

This is "Green Thang." Green Thang is a green lizard, very agile. He escaped from this herpetarium several times before I learned to put heavy weights on the top---which even though they were latched and locked, he could still push up just enough to slip through. Unlike the much tamer geckos above, he's ornery, and will try to bite you with his powerful little jaws if you try to pick him up. Eats crickets.

This is "Twistie"---a curly-tailed, chameleon lizard. They can be expensive, but are very interesting. His eyes move independently, on each side of his head, so he can look in all directions at once.

Curled up, green, on a branch---he looks like a leaf. A leaf just waiting for some yummy bug to come crawling along for him to snatch up (like crickets.)

This is the same lizard, Twistie. But now, instead of being a plant-like green, he's turned brown. When I first saw him in a pet store, he looked like this---with crusty white stuff on his head and along his back. I didn't think he looked very attractive!

But it turns out he's just being smart---down on the sand, he wants to look like a rock with lichen growing on it! It's all camouflage, even the stuff on his head! He can also turn all-white, or bright yellow!

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