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View Poll Results: What one would you pick?
Lepidophyma flavimaculatum - Crocodile lizard 3 60.00%
Cordylus c. tropidosternum - Tanzain Darwf Sungazer 2 40.00%
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 I helped move the meter!   07-26-2007, 11:33 AM
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Difficult to chose.

We'll with the Sav moving into his larger cage this week I have room and was offered the chance at two diffren lizards. Here they are what would you take?
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Re: Difficult to chose.

I'm not sure what the size of your cage is, or what you're looking for in a pet, so that makes this really difficult.

The Lepidophyma flavimaculatum is certainly the prettier of the two from a purely aesthetic standpoint. But I wasn't able to find a lot about the care of one, except that it's primarily an insectivore and tropical. I assume it's active at night, because they call it the yellow-spotted night lizard.

The Cordylus c. tropidosternum, on the other hand, I was able to find care sheets for right away. They seem to be more desert creatures. High heat, low humidity. A range between 80 degrees F and 120 during the day, which means you'll need a rather large cage. Active during the day. Insectivores that supposedly eat plants as well. (We all know how that goes.)

Based on the fact that it seems to be a lot harder to find information on the care of the Night Lizard, I'd go with the Sungazer.

Unless by Crocodile Lizard, you really meant Shinisaurus crocodilurus - that's totally different.
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Re: Difficult to chose.

I dont know what the second one is, post a pic
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Re: Difficult to chose.

The cage is 80 x 60 x 60 cm so it's good for a pair of ether. The common names could be wrong as I had done my best to find them vary little information is avalible on Lepidophyma flavimaculatum so I tranlated the German common name verbatum. The need by the information I found temps 26-28C and humidity of 50-70%. And are not UV dependant.
Heres a pic of the Night lizard.


And the Sungazer
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Re: Difficult to chose.

Croc lizard for the win.

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Re: Difficult to chose.

I'm for the Croc as well.
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