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Baja Blue Rock Lizards:

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I know Graham will like these;

Enjoy

Adult Pair
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Adult Male:

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Adult and Subadult Males:

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Very cool lizards!

PS: This should be in Gen. Chit Chat. ;) You should be able to go to 'Thread Tools' and move it there. If not, a mod will take care of it for you, no biggie. I see you're new, understandable mistake. Head to New Member Introductions, introduce yourself, and stick around awhile! Welcome to the forums. :D
 
Wow! thoes are knock-out lizards!! Whats their care like? Yours are just beautiful, you keep very healthy animals. :)
 
I'm not very good at explaining myself well, nor do I come out sounding like a intellectual snoob. English and grammar are my worst subjects, (you'll notice it the more i post), so bare with my slang.. I write the way I talk; (HORRIBLE) anyhow...

I took what I wrote on our subforum on another reptile forum, and copy and pasted it here. It pretty much explains they're care.

"What can I say about these guys... inquisitive, bold, colorful, entertaining...?

We have started revamping our collection, and planned out who's going and who's staying. Of course I would never give up, one of my all time favorite lizards. When these guys arrived they were very skittish, flighty to any movement and very secretive. Now, they're more intrigued in what we're doing, why we're in they cage picking up poop, of placing food, and pretty much out all day. They've tamed down enough to be slightly hand able and I think with enough work, can be as tame as a bearded dragon. We've made plans to construct some outdoors pens before summer, and I'm hesitant to place them outside. Reason being they can jump at least 2ft up and from what I've read 3ft is pretty capable of them. They have no trouble climbing vertical, perpendicular, horizontal, and even upside down. They have even less trouble jumping out of they're Rubbermaid tub. Last thing I want to do is place these expensive lizards outdoors, and come home to find them missing from they're pen, and running lose outside in a fence less yard.

These guys are native to Baja California (southern baja), and can be found around Cabo San Lucas and the surrounding areas.

Housing consists of a 4x2x2 Stock trough, with sand and flagstones as decor. (i now use stackers (similar to a retes stack) in the enclosure as well)

They are provided with a 160w Mercury Vapor Bulb, and a 75w halogen spot light. Basking spot is roughly 115-120F with the cool side being 75-80F.

They eat pretty much anything you give them... they seem to be more carnivorous than anything; they'll eat our dragon salad, but prefer roaches, crickets, superworms, and pinkies over greens. Males are larger than females; females are just as colorful as males. Only real way of sexing these lizards to be sure of they're sex is by looking at they're femoral pores. They're colors intensify during breeding season, males can be a turquoise blue with baby blue hue thru out they're body and streaks of yellow around the they're eyes, neck and chest. Females, have a blue gray cast over they're body, and when gravid get red/orange coloration around they're eyes, throat, and back.

In my research, coloration varies from location to location. Some locals are grey/white/black with blue heads (you can see differences by searching on Flickr) , others are full body turqouise with high yellow and black reticulations.

Breeding is done by having sexed pair of healthy adults (of course). Normally we cool them around November. (stop feeding a week or two prior to cooling) All that is done is basking lights are turned off, and replaced with just a Reptisun 10.0 UVB bulb instead. They are provided with a day/night light cycle of 8hrs of day/14 hrs of night They are subjected to any cold fronts we get (we leave the windows open). They are cold for at least 2months, afterwards, you start adding the basking lights again, and flip the day/night cycle to 12/12. And feed the crap out of them... you'll notice the male start bobbing, and chasing the female... if she's receptive she will let him do his thing. You'll know if she's gravid due to the HUGE color change the female goes thru (they are drabbiest lizards when not breeding)

Id say they're like a cross between a collard lizard and chuckwalla. Probably even the setups are similar in most ways.
 
Wonderful pictures.....they are beautiful and I love how there are so many! You really captured these guys well. Thanks for the information too- I will be doing some online researching now! :D
 
How cool is that? XD
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad the little male is all healed up. Its always nice to see people who take such good care of their animals. Neat pics!!!
 
Fascinating lizards - thank you for sharing them with us and would love it if you could keep us updated on your progress with them!
 
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