Charlotte and I were tickled with this fun portrait of our lizard from Andria! Kronos is about 4 or 5 years old. He/She (technically he's male) has lived in this enclosure we built for him for a little over a year now, and seems to be liking it. A few weeks ago I added this planter pot of native rye grass to the ecosystem. We have been experimenting with different grasses that can tolerate the peculiar conditions of the lizard enclosure (blood grass is also one we've had success with). On Christmas day Kronos decided finally to get up close and personal with the new furniture... "Eye-to-Rye" you might say! Haha ha.
Seriously though, it did make me very happy to see her poking her snout into it and "sniffing" with her tongue repeatedly, even if it was completely flattened afterwards! I gave it a little fluffing up and it wasn't too much worse for the wear. We saw this behavior repeated at least once since then. An active, curious lizard is a healthy lizard.
After breakfast and exploration, it is time to bask! Kronos meanders over to her favorite basking spot atop this wood tunnel. (She's just beginning a shed here. You can see some peeling under her ear hole and also a dull patch on her left flank that began flaking off in a large patch a day or two later.)
I'll say it again, Kronos is a very lucky lizard to be so well taken care of. He's looking very healthy in his magnificent enclosure! Nice video job!
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