Reptile Forum, Reptile Classifieds - CaptiveBred

dalchana · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject: The Chinese Crocodile Lizard

Hi there, I was wondering if anybody had any experience with shinisaurus Crocodilurus aka The Chinese Crocodile lizards, as I am very interested in purchasing a captive bred baby that I have seen for sale, I trust the person I am buying it off of as he has had a single specimen in the shop for a very long time and his knowledge is off the roof, but I would like to know if anybody else has kept these wonderful creatures, Thanxs

Scott W · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:36 am Post subject:

hi,
lovely lizards, never actually kept any myself but believe they require quite cool conditions. They have been bred a few times in captivity, I did have a really good article on them, I'll see if I can find it (or even remember who wrote it).

good luck if you go ahead with it, post up some photos and observations about it.

JStroud · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

Reasonably hard to get healthy WC specimens in captivity I think, having only seen a couple at the most and they were not amazing. Never seen any captive bred/hatched ones, very nice lizards though and as Scott says they like to be kept cool. Good luck if you to get some, would love to see some pictures Cool

Jas · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

This guy breeds them.
http://www.agamainternational.com/crocodilurus.shtml

dalchana · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:

Hi to all, thanks for the response
Im going to pick the little croc lizard up 2moro, as soon as i get some photos i will post them, I just think these lizards are amazing, I tell u what though i picked up a trio of baby helmeted geckos the other day and an albino honduran milk snake, these geckos are wicked, they are always out and about and feed like me monitors jumping all over the place with excitement, the honduran is quite skittish though but hopefully grow out of it.

jim_radley · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

How's the Crocodile lizard? Was it from Coast 2 Coast?

dalchana · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

Elo mate, I will be getting it from Cold Blooded in Rainham hopefully, coz he brought CB Babies from germany I think and they were all feeding well and over two days he lost two of them so hes gonna hold on to the little one for a little longer to make sure he thrives, I will def post pics of him if I do get him he is a proper cool little lizard

jim_radley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject:

How much if you don't mind saying, will you be paying for him?

dalchana · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

It was up for about £450, but the geezer in cold blooded(Paul) is a good friend of mine now so he usually sorts out a good price for me

jim_radley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

Coast 2 Coast Exotics Available stock page
Crocodile lizards CB (Shinosaurus crocodilus). Totally and utterly stunning – we keep these ourselves! £295

http://www.britnett.net/c2c/page3.html