question about a bird

flowperson said:
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....;)
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:confused: 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
 
wil said:
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...
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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 ?
 
wil said:
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...
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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:)
 
seattlegal said:
Do tell! :)
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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 :eek:



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


:eek: 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 .
 
mee said:
did she scare you , LOL most people are scared of her , one time a friend of mine who did not know that we had iggy , sat on the settee and iggy was lay on the back of the settee , i said turn round and she nearly had a heart attack .
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Scare me? I am not even sure that is possible.... The "wow" comment was the only suitable post I could submit to define how impressed I was by the image and the creature. Wouldn't of thought you'd own reptiles... Anyway... That is a mighty fine creature... So, wow, once more.

Your friends face would of been priceless I am sure, shame you didn't catch it on camera heh......... Iggy? Named after 'someone' famous? Or just, a name you liked.

mee said:
she is quite large now , her tail is like a whip and even though she is not that fierce , she can use that tail if she wants too ,so you have to treat her with respect
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All things bright and beautiful, all things great and small ;) Should be respected.
 
17th Angel said:
Wouldn't of thought you'd own reptiles...
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:confused:why, things are not always as they seem LOL 2 more pics to see

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greymare said:
oh I want one.
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they do get big , so a good size enclosure is a must , i think it is a shame when you see some of them in a big fish tank , they like to be up high and have things to climb up, my iggy has a large thick branch that goes from top to bottom of her enclosure, and she likes to sit on the top shelf looking down to everything below her. that is what she would do if she was in her natural habitat of the rain forest, they bask in the sun in the trees and come down to do their poo poo in the pools and waterfalls , so when my iggy wants to go she comes down and scratches at the door for me to open it , and then she gets out and walks across the landing to the bathroom next door to her , i know it sounds a bit far fetched but i turn the shower on and she climbs in the corner shower and goes into the shower of water and does her poo poo,.


when we first had her we had read in a book about iguanas that they like to go to the toilet in water , so we thought we would try her in the shower and she did go , and she has just got in the habit of that,


i do clean the shower after her i might add, :)



when she is in the shower she loves it .


so her habits are very much like they would be in the wild, and she also has a large bedroom window that she is close to and has a view of the trees outside .

so i dont have to clean her enclosure very often , unless i am out when she starts tapping the door to come out , then she does it in her water bowl:)



its not that you can train them , you cant really train them, they are just wild , but she has got in the habit because it is natural to do a similar thing in the wild
 
17th Angel said:
All things bright and beautiful, all things great and small ;) Should be respected.
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can you see how her dewlap under her chin has gone bigger in the close up pic , she does that to say hey i am bigger than you ,watch out , :)
 
greymare said:
does she like to be held. ? one of our bearded dragons loves to be nursed but the other one is a bit skittish.
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when my son lived at home he did handle her more ,but i must admit i dont handle her as much as i could because those sharp claws really dig in and they dont really like it to much .
in the summer when its hot i take her in the garden and she basks on the round clothes line for a bit of real sun.


she does like to have the top of her head stoked and under her chin as well .
 
did you know that in some parts of the world they eat iguanas:(
reptiles are prized but not as pets.

Iguana is a key ingredient in soups and stews. i have heard it tastes just like chicken, The meat is very soft and tender.


oh no fancy eating poor iggy:(
 
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