tell me about having a pet lizard or chemeleon or some kind of small reptile pls

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ds2 (5) is big-ly into dinosaurs and is very taken with the idea that lizards are like modern dinosaurs.

so how easy is it to keep a pet 'something small and reptilian'?

many tia

hi i have a bearded dragon {pics on my profile!} he is easy to keep but they eat live food crickets and locusts and you need a vivarum with a heat lamp and a uv light wich can be expensive but they are very easy to handle and are quite tame if you have got a good reptile shop near you go and have a look and they can tell you everything x

good point re going to pet/reptile shop, thanks awtf. [duh]

We've got a leopard gecko. AwayWithTheFaries has the right advice and our care of him is much the same. We don't need a UV light tho. They do shed their skin every six weeks or so and you need to be careful as they can lose toes if they don't do it right. I don't mind picking dry skin off anything tho! I do still feel bad about covering poor little crickets in protein powder though but bear in mind that some bigger lizards eat baby mice (pinkies). You can buy frozen ones from the pet shop. Ewwwww. I couldn't do that.

Geckos can also shed their tails if they feel trapped so 5 may be a little young but I'm sure with careful explanation and supervision of handling it should be ok. The tails do grow back but they look stumpy and not much like the original one. Ours still has his thankfully. I think DS was about 14 when he got him.

We love him, he's great.