Emerald, My Baby Iguana

[j5ive]

Sorry, the These pics were taken with my phone, therefore they are poor quality...but I'm sure you can make them out













He or she is currently 18 inches STL, I'm working on a larger cage, but this is his temporary enclosure a 100 gal reptarium.
The Ambient temp. stays around 81-82 basking is 93-96.
Humidity levels are between 67-75%.
The reason they may be like this is because I live in Mississippi, and it is still "Summer'ish" outside.
The cage is lined with Reptile Carpet. The UVB light is a 48'' fixture with a 10.0 reptisun tube inside. The two basking lights up top are 65W incandasent bulbs inside dome fixtures.

Any other questions or suggestions, feel free to reply.

[prism_wolf]

LOL...I think you've covered everything but the food...;-)...and from the looks of what's in he bowl...not a bad choice of foods from what I can tell.

And the heat rock? Is it plugged in?

[j5ive]

In the bowl is, collards, yellow squash, asparagus, and a spring mix of endive, baby lettuces, and raddachaio.
The cord is cut on the heat rock.

[j5ive]

Also, the food looks mushy because it had been in there for about 5 hours.

[prism_wolf]

The rest sounds good, too! The bag mix with the baby lettuces I would use very sparingly, because there are a lot of lettuces in it. If you add another greens like mustard, turnip or dandelion it will help balance it more...or even add all three. Have you tried a red bell pepper yet? Igs seem to find these VERY attractive and it adds hydration...:-)

[j5ive]

I switch the greens up every two days, collards sunday and monday, turnips tuesday and wed, mustards thursday and friday, and watercress on saturday...I usually add squash along with the greens and radachaio(spelling) or lettuce. He hates red, green, yellow bell peppers, bananas, strawberries etc...the only fruit he likes is mango and cantalope. I will cut down on the lettuces though, it just seems that he likes them so much that I can't help adding them to his diet.

[prism_wolf]

Lettuce is like candy for igs...and it's often very hard to wean them off once they've really taken a liking to it. Instead of switching out...the greens need to be fed together as a whole. Your only offering scattered nutrition the way you're doing it now. Watercress is an excellent source of calcium so if you can add this everyday...you would sure be doing the baby a favor... ;D.

The radicchio is a good food, too. It's an easily swapped food, though. Try adding parsnips and green beans, too.

[Jen]

Try some fresh pineapple for fruit, I tried canned with mine and they hated it!

[prism_wolf]

Pineapple is pretty high in acid content. These shouldn't be fed very often...preferably not at all...:-) Fresh foods is always best. Do not feed canned or frozen unless you have nothing else to feed before your next trip to the store. Some frozen foods do come out o.k. such as wax beans and some of the others, but the defrosting of some leave the leaves less than desirable.

[Jen]

I think IK told me once that Pineapple was good for them??? Maybe I am wrong

[prism_wolf]

He has mentioned this on the forum almost exactly two years ago (did a search going back 999 days... ;D ). Nothing recently unless it's been in a PM. IK maybe able to shed some light on whether or not he uses it now. I have to still stand by the fact that it is very high in acids and not something you want to feed much of... .

[Jen]

www.reptileforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40962 it was on another forum. He said as a treat.

[j5ive]

The stores down here, Walmart, Winn Dixie, Kroger...don't sell parsnip..As far as the green beans they come in the mix I buy from walmart. It's the walmart brand "spring mix".

[Merlin]

I am quite familiar with that particular forum and would be very leery of anything that was posted there.

[Jen]

I am very aware of the bad advice there. But there are a couple people on there that I trust for advice. I always come here for my Ig advice.