Lizards

When it comes to buying a pet, you may look for something that is easy to look after, has a personality and is enjoyable to keep and playful. I would say that most lizards have these attributes and they make excellent pets. Not all of them cost a lot to look after, but some can be quite pricey when they eat insects and other live food or pink mice. I will start with perhaps my most favourite - the bearded dragon. This is a very common lizard found in pet shops around the UK. They are grey with beige and light brown colourings. They look like real dinosaurs with their spiky, rough skin but they are softer to touch than they seem. Most of the spikes are actually ...  Read the complete review

Reptiles are the fastest gowing sector of the pet industry world wide as more and more people come to realise that these animals make fantastic captives, and ignore the anti-exotic pet proaganda and lies spread by various animal rights organisations and animal charities who would like to see the entire herpetocultural hobby ended because of a few irresponsible keepers. Lizards are a very large and popular group of reptiles, and whilst they are more work than snakes traditionally, they will prove educational, interesting and perhaps incredibly ornamental in your home. I think the key to success with reptiles is DO YOUR RESEARCH. Do not turn up at a garden ...  Read the complete review

Althought a lot of you will have read about my various lizards in the past , i just had to wright this one as i couldnt find anywhere else on dooyoo to tell you about buddy. As this is supposed to be about lizards in general i suppose i should generalise a bit so here we go, We have at the moment as family pet, ziggy the iguana, who i wouldnt recomend as a pet, at 6 foot long it would be near impossible to keep him in a viv big enough for him to have the freedom to move around so he roams around our living room, eating anything he sees you eat, pooing anywhere that takes his fancy at times and generally harrasing the visitors, he is tolerant ...  Read the complete review

Im a big fan of lizards ive had them all, dragons, iguanas, anoles, monitors and now for the second time i have berber skinks. Skinks are commonly found in south africa and parks of asia i believe and these specific ones can grow up to 45cm including there long tails. They are a shiny grey(almost silver) colour with vibrant orange markings on them. They feel like snakes - so smooth and not at all scaley and slimey. The chinchilla of the reptile world. They have some good techniques to them as well - they can bury themselves in the sand totally vanish out of sight - they have very small legs and feet which they can lie flat against there ...  Read the complete review

Leopard Gecko's were not something I had considered keeping until a year or so ago when my mum bought one home in a tank which now sits proudly in her sittingroom. However, I quickly warmed to them and their obvious charms. The Leopard Gecko is part of the lizard family Gekkonidae and their latin name is EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS (yoo-blay-fair-iss mac-yoo-lair-ee-us)which roughly translated means spotted eyelid gecko. They are pretty little lizards although they are very unlike most geckos. For a start they have not got the conventional flat toe pads that enables most geckos to climb well but rather have tiny toes ending in claws. They are general about 8 ...  Read the complete review