my iguana is really wild an i berly bot it i dont now how 2 tame it
2006-08-14 11:28:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Reptiles
Lots of touching and attention. Try hand feeding for awhile, but be gentile, yet firm. Also, make sure your heating, lighting food and overall placement of your tank is favorable to the iguana. They are very prone ti stress and need a perfect environment to grow and prosper. Also - make sure where you have it located is not a high noise area. That can make them stress.
2006-08-14 11:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by ladylaw_912 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Male Iguanas are usually fine, more or less, for the first couple of years, and then they go into their "sexual maturation" phase and are rotten bastards for the next five years or so. If you can get through that phase then he will mellow out and cause you relatively little grief.
Female Igs are easier to get along with, but not much.
The trick is to be an Iguana expert first, before you buy one. Many people buy that cuuuuuuute little green lizard at the pet store with the clerk's assurances that it will be eat only lettuce and be perfectly happy in a small cage, and always be tame as a lapdog, which is a huge lie they tell you in order to sell you the lizard. The fact is they need a diet of various vegetables & flowers, a large cage with special lights and basking places and climbing branches, and can BITE YOUR NOSE OFF if so inclined, not to mention using their tail as a whip to smack the crap out of you whenever you tick them off - which will be daily.
How to tame it? Lots & lots of TLC (Tender Loving Care), very careful handling, proper husbandry (housing, care & feeding) and the patience of a saint.
Personally, I would never keep an Iguana as a pet, and I've kept snakes that can kill you with one bite (I know, I know, silly me...)
Sorry, wish I had better news for you.
2006-08-14 11:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by My Evil Twin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How old is your iguana? The younger it is the easier would be to tame it. All you have to do is just to spend time with him/her. Every day. No exception. Just hold it when you watch TV at night.
When we got our iguana we rescued her from someone who neglected her. She was just a hatching and she was very nervous and scared of everything. A year later - and my husband drives with Iggy on his shoulder! They even go groceries shopping together! It takes patience and love...
2006-08-14 13:52:55 · answer #3 · answered by oksana_rossi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
:) aren't they little shi*s? Well, you can get him to be calmer around you, but tame?- not the right word. Iggys are so cute, I love the way they hate everyone! Mine gives me this little evil stare, like "I hope you know I hate you", but hey, that is just how they are. The best way to 'work' with him is to get a towel or some gloves and simply get him out of the cage, but be gentle, quiet, no sudden movements. Let him calm down, he will soon see you as a living branch and relax. He will whip anyone who comes close to you, though. Do this a few times a week and as he gets older he will become more mellow. Mine is fine with me, I have a way with reptiles, I can kiss him on his nose, but he bites the heck out of my husband, I guess it is all the experience I have, It is hard to expalin, you need to put yourself in his shoes and respect his power, if you try to understand him and work with him, he will do the same for you. Really, though, getting them out of the cage is the hardest part, when he tries to bite, gently restrain his head with your fingers until he calms down.
2006-08-14 12:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by wendi_just_me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just carry it around with u on ur shoulder and itll get used to u and also wen ur gonna feed it like pellets or sumthing maybe put him on ur arm and feed him a pellet but be carefull so he wont bite u..o yeah and pet it
2006-08-14 11:31:41 · answer #5 · answered by Leo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the more you handle it the tamer it gets
2006-08-14 14:46:53 · answer #6 · answered by bill j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep holding it if it bites you put it back in aquarium and keep doing it until he associates his/her bad behaviour.
2006-08-14 11:32:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋