question about a bird

[flowperson]

Originally Posted by mee

how come

Mee...Google "Night of the Iguana" , and you'll soon discover the reason for my sly reference to two great film actors who have passed from this stage.

flow....

[greymare]

oh mee she is awesome. She would have to be the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. magic. My son was impressed as well.

[greymare]

aaahhhh godzilla.

[mee]

Originally Posted by Saltmeister

Are you sure she's not a small, tiny lizard viewed close-up? (this will probably show that I know very little about animals.)

no she is 11 years old now, and including her long tail she is about 3 to 4 feet long , she was only small when we first had her, but they soon grow, she has an enclosure in our sons old bedroom , it is a wardrobe size alcove, she is sat on the top shelf on the pic, and has all of the special uv lights that keep her healthy.

[mee]

Originally Posted by greymare

oh mee she is awesome. She would have to be the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. magic. My son was impressed as well.

thank you ,

when we take her to the boarding place called REPTILE FANTASIA, (they look after her when we go away on our hols)They said she is the best they have seen , and whatever it is that we are doing just keep doing it



i think it must be the bunches of large leaf watercress that she loves ,and the bananas that she cant get enough of . but she is easy to feed they are veggies, so she eats lots of things that i use anyway. apples are another favourite , but i do keep a pack of dried ZOO MED ADULT IGUANA FOOD on hand in case i run out , and i think that food has alfalfa in it.


Any way she seems to be thriving .

[mee]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Mee...Google "Night of the Iguana" , and you'll soon discover the reason for my sly reference to two great film actors who have passed from this stage.

flow....

still non the wiser but never mind ,

i have mentioned that i am thick



my iggy is no trouble at all she sleeps at night and basks in the sun
( artificial lights) all day

[mee]

Originally Posted by wil

She's beautiful.

I've only had friends with green iguanas, the kind where the jaw bone protrudes.

I love how they move ever so intently...

is there not a condition that iguanas can suffer from because they are not given the right uv lights, and it involved the Jaw going floppy ?

[mee]

Originally Posted by wil

She's beautiful.

I've only had friends with green iguanas, the kind where the jaw bone protrudes.

I love how they move ever so intently...

they do go about things quite slow but if she is under threat she can move really quickly if she wants too.




A few years ago when we had a really hot summer we actually LOST iggy for a whole week. we thought we would never see her again.

it was when our son had all the windows open and i was out at work, and our son used to let iggy wander around the house , anyway as it was so hot all the doors were open as well, and when i came home i said where is iggy?


we searched in all of the gardens nearby and put a poster pic of iggy in the local post office just round the corner from us ,hoping that someone would see her.

any way after a whole week had gone by ,we had a phone call to say that iggy was walking in the middle of the road right outside the post office , so we rushed out round the corner and there she was ,

we thought we had lost her for good , but she was as good as new .


we think that because it was such a hot summer she survived , and the garden that is at the back of ours next to the post office was full of veggies , so i think that for a whole week she was eating that mans veggies and then dicided to more on. and 2 children saw the poster in the post office and then saw her in the road, they went straight back to the post office and they phoned us up .



so our iggy has been places no other iggy has been

[mee]

Originally Posted by greymare

aaahhhh godzilla.

yes she is , i have known some people call their iggys GODZILLA

[mee]

i have another surprise about iggy

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by Saltmeister

Are you sure she's not a small, tiny lizard viewed close-up? (this will probably show that I know very little about animals.)

Look at the size of the fluorescent tube at the top of the picture to gauge perspective.

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by mee

i have another surprise about iggy

Do tell!

[mee]

Originally Posted by seattlegal

Do tell!

A few years ago when our son was looking after his friends iguana ( when they went on their hols ) he did what i told him not too,




he put them in the same enclosure togeather ,



his friends iggy was a lot younger than our iggy and was quite small,


but it was a MALE



any way my son came to me all guilty looking , and said i think they have mated


we were hoping that the male iggy was to young , but some time later our iggy grew fatter and fatter in the belly then she started to dig and scratch everything in sight , she was trying to find a place to lay her eggs in .


any way , it was about the time that we were booked up to go to our hols , so we took her to REPTILE FANTASIA to be boarded for the hols , we explained to them that she was full of eggs and there was a chance that she may lay while we were on our hols


because they were really into reptiles they said do you want us to incubate the eggs if she has them while you are away .



i really didnt know what to do so they said that they had some incubation tanks and if we allowed them to incubate them they could sell them and we could have half the price .


i felt a bit guilty to just let the eggs be destroyed ,so we said ok then.

Anyway when we came back from our hols she had laid 47 eggs i could not believe how many eggs she had . and the size of them.


they looked like a hard boiled egg but about half the size .


they said that she must be a really healthy iggy to get through it all in captivity.

anyway we took her home and they incubated the eggs for about 3 months i think it was ,


when we got her home ,a week later low and behold she had another 3 eggs but they looked deformed and broken so they were no good any way.

so we waited to see what would happen with the other eggs but they were all infertile and did not produce any new little iggys


we thought at first that the people at reptile fantasia were just saying that and really they had sold them and made a profit .



not that we cared i didnt fancy having lots of iggys anyway,


but i did read in a book about reptiles that if the male is juvenile the eggs will be infertile so i think that was the case .


so there we have it ,my iggy has done more than most iggys in captivaiy i think .

[greymare]

yay for iggy . she isa red hot reptile mama. LOL.

[mee]

Originally Posted by greymare

yay for iggy . she isa red hot reptile mama. LOL.

she certainly is