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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 21, 2009, 04:28:43 PM
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Look, up on the wall, it's Spider-
manLizard?
A lizard that looks startlingly like Spider-Man - Mwanza flat-headed rock agama - has become the latest fashionable pet.
The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up.
Agamas like the Spider-Lizard, as it has become known make good pets, as they become tame and docile if handled regularly. However, they require specialist equipment in the UK to maintain their temperature.
It can grow up to a foot long, and the squeamish may find it a problem to feed – a balanced diet for an agama includes locusts, crickets, mealworms and waxworms.
Native to Kenya, the rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is unable to throw webs, but can change colour – the brightly coloured males will change brown at night or if frightened. They can also run on their hind legs, and – like Spidey – can scale vertical walls.
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6213807/Spider-Man-lookalike-lizard-is-latest-exotic-pet-craze.html)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01485/800px-Flat-headed__1485656c.jpg)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01485/spiderlizard_1485653c.jpg)
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Hmm, I've never actually seen one at any pet store near me.
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My daughter would so want that!
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Yeah, my son will want one now...
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Yeah, my son will want one now...
When we lived in Hawaii the first thing I did not expect to find was free range Geckos running across the ceiling and popping up behind canned goods in the cuboid.
Navy Housing was full of the darn things when we first moved in. My 2 year old soon found that if he was fast enough he could grab the tail and that tail would break off and lizard would scamper off and grow a new one.
These little fellows thrived on bugs, most any kind so we had no roaches or nasty.
Problem was when a few of them had eaten all the bugs, they starved to death, I found their little dead body's under beds and in the dirty laundry.
Within 2 weeks the bugs came back big time and I would send the kids out with home made traps to collect the lizards and bring inside the house.
When we came back to the main land to Calif. the smell of chemicals to debug housing was sickening. I tried to find a pet store that sold those lizards with no luck.
Later when I bought my home in VA. the first night was a nightmare, there were millions of roaches having a party when the sun went down. We must have spent a couple thousand bucks to have the bug man treat our house every month, I went looking again but could not find even one lizzard for sale.
Once I came home to the North East I decided to spend a few years living in what was called a slum at that time. Heck, half the apartments on my street were vacant or burned out but the rent was only $400.00 a month for a 2 bedroom apt. I could afford to put away $600.00 a month toward a down payment on a home.------But the bugs, gross--
Along comes a coworker that sold Amway and for $50.00 I could buy 2 of those plug in bug be gone thingies. I took a chance, those suckers worked. Today I buy them at Walmart for $10 bucks each and every month or so move them from room to room.
I would love to have the work done by the Geckos they were funny little things, they would choose a corner of the home as a toilet and poop in that one spot. Too cold up here to let the little guys run loose, they were fun to watch them run across the ceiling and drive the cats insane.
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When we lived in Hawaii the first thing I did not expect to find was free range Geckos running across the ceiling and popping up behind canned goods in the cuboid.
...another good thing about GEICO.