i catched a tiny lizard only a baby about 2cm how do i look after it?

Question

Australia, Queensland dark brown really long tail white belly 1 week old just saved it from dieing

Answer 1

You might have a bearded dragon. You should keep it in a 15 gallon terrerium to start. I included a link to bearded dragon care. Good luck!

Answer 2

Hi there,

I wasn't able to determine a species from your description, but you may well have an adult lizard on your hands. There are quite a few Aussie species that fully grown are only 2cm long. Is there a reason that you believe it to be 1 week old?

Reptiles can be great in captivity but they have very specific requirments.

First and foremost, being a cold blooded animal, it will need an external heat source so it can regulate it's body temperature. Most reptile supply stores will sell either heated rocks, lights or lamps for exactly this purpose. The important thing is to provide a proper gradient between temperatures in a reptiles enclosure. A lizard needs to be able to move close to or further away from a heat source to regulate it's temperature effectively. The best way to do this is to place the heat source at one end of the enclosure, which will become the 'hot end' and leave the other end of the enclosure as the 'cool end'. The lizard will bask as it needs to.

Depending on the species it may have specific humidity requirements, or may even spend time in water. You really need to try and work out what exactly you have on your hands.

The same can be said for the diet. Most lizards seem to do well on live foods such as mealworms, crickets and the like. But even so, insects usually need to be dusted in some sort of calcium supplement and a lot of lizards also require fruits and vegetables.

Feeding a lizard once every two days in warmer weather should suffice, in winter once a week or once a fortnight should be adequate.

In any case, lizards in Australia are protected by law and you need to organize with your local National Parks and Wildlife Service for a permit to hold them.

To be fair to the lizard, you really need to first work out which species it is, contact National Parks and Wildlife, and a vet if it is injured. Imagine if you have a rare or endangered species on your hands? Taking it from the wild, no matter how honorable your intentions, may do more harm than good.

Good on you for looking after our native wildlife, and best of luck.
Heidi.

Answer 3

Unless you are 100% sure of what kind of lizard it is and how to take care of it, the best thing to do for it is to let it go where you found it. If it's not safe there, find somewhere similar to the place you found it. This lizard knows how to take care of itself and doesn't need anyone to take care of it. With how small it is, you might not be able to find enough of the right sized food for it anyway.

Answer 4

The first thing you want to know is what is it:

Possibilities:

Monitor
Brown Basilisk
Brown Water Dragon(aka Australian Aater Dragon)
flap footed lizard
fence skink

each has very different requirements.
try to find a picture of it on the internet. babies can have very different colors than adults

Answer 5

we catch little slinks in our backyard & we give them bread crums you can feed them bread crumbs for a while utill you find the proper food for him & you can feed them ants to but make sure they are you nomal ants not redbull ants because they can kill your baby...

Answer 6

ask a vet