Lizard update

Due to popular demand, with half my reading audience requesting it, I decided to post a lizard update. OK, it was one request, which technically is a third of my readership, soooooo.

I must say that I was a little skeptical about a lizard. What can you do with a lizard? Is it like fish, you just watch them? Turns out, you can do very little with a lizard and yes, they are like fish, although watching them eat is far more interesting. He doesn't move much, so sitting in front of his tank for an extended period of time just isn't a good use of your time. It is pretty cool to see him in different parts of the tank and changing colors to blend in. We have a smaller tank that we now keep his dinner in, crickets. We buy crickets at the local pet store. I was keeping them in the bag I bought them in, but was realizing that several were dying before I could feed them to him. I had the idea to put them in this other tank and feed them so we could get our monies worth. Turns out, we pay almost $5 for 36 crickets and he is eating about 5 crickets a day. I certainly didn't want to get 36 crickets and only be able to feed him 30 or so. I read on the internet that you can feed the crickets pretty much anything, it's called gut loading, then that food is transferred to the lizards. Since we always have carrots, apples and strawberries in the house, that is what I have been feeding them. It seems to be working. Since I started this new system, we haven't lost any of the crickets to an early death. We are hoping to catch our own crickets in the yard soon, so we can cut down on our purchasing of crickets, but I need to read on the internet to be sure that "wild" crickets are safe for a lizard. I would think so, but you never know. He seems to be doing well. He has been taken out of his tank twice and has escaped from the kids hands both times. Thankfully, Makiah is very good at catching him, so we don't have any dead lizards in the vents, yet. Today we are going to work on cleaning out the cage, hopefully we don't loose him.