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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 137615" data-attributes="member: 27677">I've always liked lizards, Blue Tongues, Sleepy Lizards(Shingleback) and Bearded Dragons are some of the local lizards here, lots of smaller skinks and geckos too of course but my favourite choice for a  pet would have to be the Sleepy Lizards, so mellow but also very responsive. I have usually kept them outside and despite sleeping beneath cover most of the day they get to know who's coming and be waiting at the aviary door for me. One of the funniest associations between species was when I had a bearded dragon and a burrowing frog together in a terrarium. I had a feeding tube in the lid so I could drop insects in without opening the lid and the frog (who was always buried otherwise) would know when I had insects and would pop it's head up under the tube ready, as soon as the lizard saw that he would leap down from his log and firmly tread on it's head with one or both of it's front feet so the frog couldn't eat! Once the lizard was full it would let the frog eat but still stood by in case something particularly tasty looking came down the tube in which case it would tread on the frogs' nose again. Funny stuff, they lived together for years.P.S. Good to catch up with you all, I had stuff to deal with and am getting ready to move house, also my tarantulas have been dormant and not eating for a couple of months so I've really had nothing to report anyway except that because the spiders and scorps have been boring I've started ant keeping.</blockquote>

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