I caught this little guy today. I am turning it loose around the garden where it will have plenty of bugs to eat this Summer


Note that it is getting the blue belly typical of males

What a cool looking little lizard!

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Thanks I turned it loose this morning around a rock fence. I hope to see it around more this Summer.

neat looking little guy. i love the blue.

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1 Snow Corn (male) Blizzard
1 Anertherystic Corn (male) Bullet
1 Senegal Parrot (male) Shadow
2 dogs (male) Spot and Bear

Those are one of my favorite finds here in Jersey. The belly gets to be a beautiful color blue as it matures.

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I've found those in Florida too. http://www.reptiforum.com/gallery/da...C05432-med.JPG

http://www.reptiforum.com/gallery/da...512Lizard1.JPG In this pic He was soaking. He was loaded with these little red mites and these other bigger black buggies. I had to soak him for 20 minutes every day for what seemed like forever. He was a good eater though. After he was free of parasites I let him go.
I thought I had a rare find, because I found it while visiting my mom in North FL. and I've never seen them in South Florida where I live. LOL. The people on this site set me straight on the identification though. I wonder how many different states these eastern fence lizards have claimed.

I don't mean to offend anyone here, as this is really different culture values and I understand that our laws and morals are different to your laws and morals. But do you really think it's right to set a WC animal back into the wild, after treating it as a pet? - you could be introducing something back into the wild, and after feeding and looking after the animal as a CB specimen you are then putting it back to fend for itself, where before it would have been perfectly natural for it but not so much when it has had captive care for a while?

I know that rescues and organisations capture injured animals and then re-release them back to the wild where they can, but they care for the animals in a different way, always treating it as wild and keeping it in an environment as close to its natural one as possible. To bring a lizard into your house, clean it, feed it, handle it, and then put it back outside to act once again as a wild lizard doesn't seem right to me? - not to mention the risk to your existing animals, like mites and parasites.

However, over here in the UK, it is illegal for us to even touch a reptile in the wild, and we are not allowed to even pick it up for photographs for example, let alone bring one home with us. So perhaps the law adds to my opinion.

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Nope Rachel you are VERY correct! And I whole heartedly agree with you!
In most of the country it is illegal to release captive animals into the wild, even a native species. And for the very reason you state. There is no telling what sort of things that they pick up while in human posssesion and then those organisms are introduced into the ecosystem.
And if I remember correctly Florida is one of the strictest about that.

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Thanks Merlin.

I guess that's another reason to think twice about re-releasing herps into the wild,. what would happen if the law found out?

The other thing is though, and again I don't mean to offend anyone or direct this at anyone in particular, but I don't see any reason for the average person to take the average herp from the wild,. there are plenty of CB specimens to be bought and who need homes, rather than take something from its natural environment.

To me, it's fine to look at a wild herp, take pictures, even pick it up for photos, if the law allows, but do not take it from where it belongs. Just my opinion.

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Not only can you unwittingly harm the environment, if you are caught they can take your pets as well. Sometimes we try to do the right thing, and it turns out to be the wrong thing.

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