A new Pet - maybe

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CastleCrest

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Found this Beast in the Garden yesterday & brought him home to show the wifey~!
She just Loved him :wink: maybe he won't be our new pet - Spot?

Ambystoma maculatum

Family: Ambystomatidae


Found statewide in Tennessee, this large (15 – 25 cm) attractive salamander has a dark purplish-black, steel gray or black body. There are two irregular rows of bright yellow to yellowish-orange spots starting on the head and extending down the back to the tip of the tail. These salamanders migrate in large masses in the spring to breeding ponds during the first warm spring rains and on foggy nights when moisture is high. They breed in fish-free vernal ponds, swamps, roadside ditches and flooded tire ruts; they may also breed in permanent ponds where no fish have been introduced. Throughout the rest of the year they live in bottomland forests, floodplains, upland forests and mature deciduous woods containing vernal ponds.
 

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I was going to take pictures but the book says that they should not be handled? Our skin has bad stuff for their skin.
Not sure if I'll keep him - might drop him back in the forest near our pond.
He/she is pretty cool about 6 inches long - but I think maybe he/she will have a better life outdoors.

I was thinking about making an outdoor pen for my Iguana's
They might like being outside in the sun & eating the grass?
I got some Chicken wire around here somehwere?
 
Awwww, real cutie. Probably best if released into the wild. As for your iguanas, just check out their tolerance for high and low temperatures. You don't want to go outside to find frozen iguanas during a cold snap. And for those 100 degree days, they'll need a place to hide under, away from the sun. Otherwise, it's not a bad idea, except you'll also be stuck with the added chore of extra careful and very regular parasite scrutiny. Possible parasitic infestions go way up with reptiles kept outdoors.
 
Hmmmm frozen Iguana on a stick! Yummy!!!




It seems like we have been throught this before!
 
Yep, we've been right here before. I thinik it started with a garlic/lemon marinade and mango salsa
 
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :cryinlaugh: :cryinlaugh: :cryinlaugh: :rotflmao: :pumpkin: :cryinlaugh: :cryinlaugh:
 
Any outdoor pen would only be for daytime visits.
Just out during the nice weather.
I'd be more worried about a fox or something eating them :roll:

Or Jesse55 :shock:
 
If Gary is there, I will be with him holding the marinade!!!

What you said about a fox or something, I don't know, would a fox be able to stand up against a big Iguana? My money would be on the Iguana.
 
In the case of an iguana with a three or four foot body, and a two or three foot tail, it might indeed be a tossup.
 
My buddy takes his iguana Yoda outside on occasion but with him and not in a cage. I'd be leery of using chicken wire. I had a leopard gecko that rubbed against some window screen and got a nasty scrape that got infected. So chicken wire would be a lot worse I would imagine.
 
iminaquagmire said:
My buddy takes his iguana Yoda outside on occasion but with him and not in a cage. I'd be leery of using chicken wire. I had a leopard gecko that rubbed against some window screen and got a nasty scrape that got infected. So chicken wire would be a lot worse I would imagine.
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Yeah I've seen injurys from wire - but - I don't think I need to worrk with these guys, just somewhere to get some sun & eat some grass.

As for a fox - I put my money on the fox they are quick!
I've had a few good slaps from an Iguana and they can hurt,
but hunger drives the wild animals.

That said -
I know a guy who had a monkey & an Iguana and the Iguana killed the Monkey!
Smacked him in the head with it's tail!
Now that is something you don't see everyday :shock:
 
Wow. CC is up EARLY today. Yes, I know a guy who had a pet iguana that he loved. Six feet long, and about half of it was tail. The iguana was nice most of the time, but occasionally would get ornery, and take to smacking the guy with his tail, leaving welts on his arms and hands. He finally had to give it up, because it was just getting too rough too much of the time. They can give a nasty lashing with that tail.

Just imagine what a one ton croc can do with IT'S tail.

:cryinlaugh: :rotflmao: :pumpkin: :pumpkin:

Or maybe it's Won Ton Croc. :sm_angel: :sm_angel: :bolt:
 
Won Ton Croc - sounds good with mango salsa!

Yeah people buy pets never thinking they grow up :?
I had 3 huge Iguanas that ended up at a reptile education center.
When I bought the Castle it had no heat & I worried about the freezing. The guy at the Education center had been asking me for the for years - they were friendly (mostly) and were beautiful.
I had a really nice set up with a waterfall & a pond for them to swim in.
My one is getting pretty big I'd guess 5 feet with tale. I think the smaller one is a female (not sure?) one of them layed some eggs that I found a week to late :?
I know Iguanas don't normally lay eggs unless they are happy
& living the good life!
I'm going to build a sand box & get set up for hatching eggs & see if I can't get the eggs to hatch next time.
 
...all the guys from the last herf that won't go home.

I'd be up for some of that Won Ton Croc, pass the plum sauce please.

When our little doggy was small, we let her out one day, and I noticed a crow sitting on the wire eyeing her up. Needless to say, we kept an eye on her for a while after that.
 
Sometimes it works out,we have had a Yellow Nape Amazon Parrot as a family member for 25 years, and he is a real character.
CC wrote:"I know a guy who had a monkey & an Iguana and the Iguana killed the Monkey." I'll bet I know what the monkey did to cause the attack. My brother-in-law bought a cute little monkey as a pet many years ago and the monkey had a play book of bad habits, not the least of which was to crap in his hand and throw it at one and all. 8)
 
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