Yea, but for some reason, his photos show up as thumbs on the thread, and full size in my gallery. Why is that? Oh and the food I gave him(?) yesterday?
I don't think he ate a whole lot of it, maybe a few nibbles, but thats pretty much it. Maybe he doesn't like my cooking, I'm not that good at making food without some kind of recipe of sorts anyway.

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Usually for my iguana I give him a variety of food. But when I first got him he would only eat unhealthy food like spring greens and stuff so we had him not eat for about a month and then he got used to it. He wasted alot of food when we put it in every day. But I really can't help you on the diet. You have to experment what he likes and what is good for him. Hope he is doing well.

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Just for clarifaication You should NOT be cooking the greens!

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

Don't think of it as "not adopting" an iguana... think of it as "pre-adopting" an iguana. If you didn't buy it, it is likely that the iguana would have been dead (or dying) within the year and definitely given away when it entered its first breeding season.

As for diet, they don't taste that bad! LOL. Keep offering greens, cut up about the size of his head (or just a bit smaller). Eventually he will eat.

Go buy James W. Hatifield's Green Iguana: The Ultimate Owner's Manual and READ IT!! It's a huge book, but full of fun stories and facts, so it's an easy-read.

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"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." John Steinbeck

Actually, I'm not cooking the vegetables, and he(?) started eating them within a couple of days of owning him. In the petstore they had pieces of what my mom said was cabbage that was strewn about the floor of the cage and the pieces were as big or bigger than the the iguanas' heads. "Iguanas" meaning there were two left and I chose the healthiest one. The other one didn't look like it would live longer than a week at the most. Oh and SurvivorSteph? I've had that book for a year now!

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Good man!! Best resource you could have... besides HERP CENTER, of course!

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"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." John Steinbeck

Yea, and you can tell it's a well read book: pages are starting to curl, cover is torn in places had to have been reglued because the food section was falling out, etc. etc. etc. I have read the book from cover to cover two times that I know of in the year I've had it

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Sounds like these people have you in line.

Anyway for paperback book repair I suggest machine screws -- worked very well on my copy of Jane Eyre back in high school

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They pretty much have me in line. Oh, and what exactly are machine screws? Are they like regular screws or what? I've never heard of screws being used in paperback books. Hardback books, sometimes, but never paperback books. I'm supposed to be smart for my age, but that's a new one for me.

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Machine screws are a non-tapered screw usually with a fine thread (32 to 40 thread per inch is not uncommon) usually used in a tapped hole or with a washer and nut. Not as large as a bolt though.

Jane Eyre is one of those terrible novels where the author was, more or less, paid by the word so dragged it out at least 200 pages too far. My sophomore year of HS we had to read and write a major work-cited paper on this book (my year they also opened it up to Macbeth) and I was the 4th owner of the book so it was badly abused when I got it. I had no respect for the book and it ended up ripping in half. My teacher did not like the looks of two parts of a book so after a few minutes with a drill press I ran two holes and filled it with two screws and locking nuts. She wasn't too happy but it happened. Subsiquently I ended up throwing the book about 40 yards with a trebuchet I built with my roommates.

Of my other highschool books
Poetry anthology -- shot with about 30 rounds of .45 ACP
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- cut in half with my compound bow
Calculus -- next to my physics book and heavily used over the last 7 years
Physics (Giancoli 5th ed.) next to my calc books and other college texts -- got me through many other classes at Rose-Hulman
I still have the Oddessy, Catch 22, Cookoos Nest, and most of my Shakespeare books around here in some box too

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~ Mark