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New Lizard
One big thing to understand how strange this is, is that I live in Canada, in BC. Canada only has 5 species of lizards, and I am 27, and spend lots of time critter hunting and have NEVER EVER seen a lizard here, most of them can be found back east, where the weather tends to be much warmer (in spring/summer) and there are more desert-like places that lizards love...So, needless to say I was very shocked to be holding a Lizard in my hand.
So, I decided to bring it home. Where I found it was just down the road from where I live, so returning it home at a later date wouldn't be hard to do. But I wanted to find out what species it was...since well, I'd never seen a lizard here.
I think this guy is a Northern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria caerulea), it also appears to have ticks...I am looking up tick removal from reptiles atm. Lyme disease does not appeal to me, so I'll be taking care when treating the poor thing.
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neat pics!
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I'd check out this care sheet, this site usually has good information:
http://repticzone.com/caresheets/2506.html
Be sure to wash your hands often and make sure nothing comes in contact with the bearded dragon, wild caught reptiles can often carry problematic things with them.
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Re: New Lizard
I thought only Blue-tongued skinks tongues where blue. But it does look like a skink! looks like a bigger version of the ones we have here XDRawr wrote:Looks like a Skink to me have him go like this and see if is tongue is blue.
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Sorry for the largish pic, tinypic is the only site I know that can resize without distorting but it doesn't have middle ground between this size and the next size down which is rather tiny
Edit: Researching further, we only have one species of Skink, the Western Skink which has a blue tail
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So, now it is Tick free as far as I can see, didn't see anything else crawling on it like mites or other parasites, so hopefully that was all. I'll be monitoring it closely for signs of other things. Going to check out second hand stores tomorrow, for a tank. I'll feel a bit better once it's in a bigger tank and I can better feed/water it. Not to mention it will have room to roam around.
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Your Five-lined Skink is very pretty!
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If at all possible it would be good to get it into a reptile vet so they can check for inner parasites and give a good once over.
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Yeah, we do have a number or reptiles here, and amphibians. Seen lots of snakes, mostly just the 3 types of garter snake, lots of frogs, turtles, newts, salamanders, tree frogs. But Lizards, that's something I hadn't seen in the wild here, I knew we had some species living here in Canada, but never expected to actually see one where I live, especially when the weathers turning cold.
I do love skinks, and the one with the blue tail is sooooo pretty!!!! I wish we had those in BC
Ah, yes, I've been thinking about taking it in to the vet, just not sure how much an exam will cost. Unfortunately after my last trip to the vet...umm, plus my BF just got back from Vacation so we wont be getting a paycheck from him for 8 more days, and rents coming up. We are a tightening our belts up a bit on spending. But, I'll keep a close eye on it and maybe in about 3 weeks we could afford to take it in. I am not to worried about it since, well in the wild it would still have these issues, but now at least it does not have annoying ticks now, and it has food/water and no predators.
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