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[shelby]

hi i'v been given the above an have no idea on his care and can't seem to find any good care sheets. the woman who gave me him had him for a year on bark chip no heating in a tiny faunarium i have moved him on to paper put him a larger tank with a basking light and uv is this correct.

[eric35]

Hello ,

Have a look on this :

http://www.tallbo.com/

[shelby]

thanks i have seen this sight it gives some info but i would still like to hear from someone who has these

[kinyonga]

I have kept cordylus lizards for over 14 years now...jonesii, trops, mossambicus. This month I lost two that I have had for 14 years...so they live a long life. They were WC'a and adult when I got them.

Here's how I kept them...I used a glass tank (15" x12" x36") with a wood lid. The lid had two areas cut out of it...one along the back and one at one end of the cage. I put a UVB tube light over the back hole and a 60 watt incandescent light bulb in a hood over the other hole.

For substrate I use a type of sand that has tiny pebbles in it. I made a hide for the warm end and the cool end by stacking flat stones in such a way that they couldn't fall down on the lizards. Spaces were left throughout the piles.

I used a lid off a peanut butter jar for a water dish. I added some greenery and a couple of interesting-looking rocks. Over the water dish I placed a container with a small hole in the bottom so that the water could drip slowly out into the dish below. (This dish was on the screen too...of course!) I dumped out the old water every day or two and set up the dripper again.

I fed them crickets, waxworms, small super worms, etc. that had been fed a nutritious diet and dusted with supplements. I used a phosphorous-free calcium powder at most feedings, a vitamin powder with a beta carotene source of vitamin A twice a month and a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder twice a month.

The group that I just lost the two from never reproduced but the female died early and the three remaining males continued on for many years.
In the second group the females had two babies once every year. The babies are not difficult to raise.

Hope this helps!

[shelby]

thanks that helps alot

[eric35]

I don't know if it could help but i show you my viv for a Cordylus Trop. group :



I have 2 adults and 4 juv in this viv ..

[shelby]

wow nice viv that gives me a very good idea off how his set up should be
are these lizards hard to get as their seems very little info on them.

[whiteraven666]

I have one called Heidi

Ive had her for about 2 years now I think. WC female was sold on her own, I would like to get her a friend. She is very shy and dont like being handled. She mainly eats mealworm and ive never seen her eat crickets. Ive got that exoterra excavator stuff for her and put driftwood and sandblasted decor and cork bark into her tank.

I have a UVB tube for her and a basking bulb.

Very nice lizards
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[shelby]

hi as i said above i got him from a women who didn't even no what he was from guess were your favorite rep shop she was told he was a starter lizard and he needed no heat or uv he is healthy supriseingly
and very friendly and was with her for a year she said she was given to her as he was in a bad way he had very dry skin but as i say he looks fine from the pics i seen on the net.i was wondering if these are hard to get as i have read they like to live in groups.