| Stuff About Elmo |
| I don't know where he came from. He might have escaped from a cage. He might be the son of an escaped iguana. He may have flown in from a rainforest. He looks healthy except for a few scraped places on his back and a crooked toe. He is getting bigger. I think he is about twice the size he was when I got him! I am still working on training him not to be scared. He must think I will get really hungry one day and just eat him. |
| He is sure there is a way out of his glass and screen cage. He climbs under the towel on the bottom. It is funny to watch. He goes in upside down and pulls himself along. He travels under his food dish (a lightweight, plastic cat dish) and under his hiding place (a cardboard box with no bottom and a door cut out of the side) and pops up on the other side! He's kwazy! |
| I had to move to a different bedroom because my other one was too small. Actually, it will be too small after my dad builds a bigger home for Elmo. He is already beginning to be too big for his current home and I've only had him four months. |
| When you are furnishing a new iguana home be sure to check out the light fixtures at a HARDWARE STORE before you buy them at a pet shop. The UVB and heat lamps I bought at the pet store, but the fixtures to hold the bulbs I bought at a large hardware store. They may not look as beautiful as the ones at the pet store, but who cares? I saved $70.00! |
| I have thermometers in all corners of Elmo's home so I can make sure none of the areas are too hot or too cold. I have one thermometer between the heat lamp and the closest Elmo can get to the lamp to make sure it doesn't cook him. Warm is nice and healthy, cooked is dead. Ya know what I mean? |
| He is growing a lot. He sheds his skin when he gets too big for it, just like a snake does. He shed his skin twice in one week. I guess he is getting the foods he needs. We give him orange squash, lots of different kinds of greens that have vitamins A and C in them (no iceberg lettuce), rabbit pellets, carrots, and other vegetables that are in season, and I sprinkle powdered vitamins over it. I give him fresh food every morning. He is eating more and more. He is still trying to scare me away when I reach in to get him out. Guess he still has it in his mind that I want to eat him! Yuck! There's not enough meat on him to make a good meal! |
| I printed a lot of the best information I found on the internet and put it all in a notebook. My mom indexed it for me so I can look things up when I need to. There is a lot of stuff out there. Check out the sites I have listed. |
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