Sunday November 4th was a great day for natural sunning for our high temp lizards. In the container that we use to house our lizards during habitat cleaning and weekly weighting proved to be a good option to house them to get natural sun. Outside temps were in the mid 80s but inside the plastic tub was around 100F. The aquaflame collareds loved it. As you can see from the picture they are starting to lose their darker spots and gain more of the blue color. The male is on the rock and the female is sitting on the tub attempting to eat grass. They female as be gaining a lot of weight recently and is catching up with the male. Male currently is 12.4g while the female is 11.2g.
After the collareds were done. I moved them back into their tank and put all 4 of our steppe runners in to get some natural sun. Watching them you could see they did not like the exposure of being open. Next time we will provide more hiding places during these outings. Another surprising thing was they did not like the high temps. Care sheets say they like temps in the low 100s but while outside they kept their mouths open to let heat out. Ruled out stress because they were moving around the tub and eating crickets normally. Picture to the right shows the male in the bottom center. Currently he weighs 10.7g. Next steppe runner is 6g.
Sunday November 4th was a great day for natural sunning for our high temp lizards. In the container that we use to house our lizards during habitat cleaning and weekly weighting proved to be a good option to house them to get natural sun. Outside temps were in the mid 80s but inside the plastic tub was around 100F. The aquaflame collareds loved it. As you can see from the picture they are starting to lose their darker spots and gain more of the blue color. The male is on the rock and the female is sitting on the tub attempting to eat grass. They female as be gaining a lot of weight recently and is catching up with the male. Male currently is 12.4g while the female is 11.2g.
