Iguanas x Pollution

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Posted by Flavia Guimaraes on September 02, 2002 at 19:44:39:

In Reply to: Re: Electrical bills??????Sun is for free!! posted by Flavia Guimaraes on September 02, 2002 at 19:16:26:

I lived in Bangkok 7 years ago and the city was very noisy and polluted too.Worse than Jakarta?Perhaps...I dont know the effects of pollution in iguanas but some PEOPLE (mostly the guards)over there used to wear masks on the streets!!So if you live in a tropical but very noisy and polluted city its more healthy for your igs to keep them indors!!

Flavia
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:Cindy

:But I said that!!I said also that if I lived in a cold country I would not have iguanas because its too complicated!!So many different lights!!I would not be able to remember what I have to do every day!!
:Tropical paradise has a few disavantages also!For instance, now is the raining season in Malaysia.Its "cold" (around 85), cloudy and because of that my igs are not eating very much!!They depend on the weather and on the temperature to eat!!
:Before living in Malaysia I used to live (with my igs)in Indonesia.Jakarta, the capital, is awfully polluted!!More polluted than Sao Paulo, in Brazil, were I was born!!I could not keep my igs on the balcony!!
:Flavia
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::I think you need to include when you post how easy they are to raise where you live. If I were to leave my igs out year round, i would need new ones each year due to frozen igs. Would help the newer people who would read about how easy they are to care for to know where you come from. ;) Not all of us can live in a tropical paradise.:)

::Cindy
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:::I live in a tropical country.I dont need to put any artificial lights or heat in my igs cages.They live outdoors the whole year!!I feed them only salads and salads are very cheap to buy!!I think iguanas are the easiest animal in the world to raise.You only have to buy a cage but a huge birds cage is not very expensive.I have spent much more money with my dogs!!

:::To tame then is not very easy but is not very difficult either.They panic a little bit on the beginning but after they get used to be handled.When I was a child my father gave me a baby leopard cat.Did you try to tame a leopard cat?Or a baby monkey(not chimpanze!)or even a wild cat?If you think its difficult to take an iguana from under the living room furniture think about what is to take a leopard cat from the same place!!

:::But as I said before, I think iguanas are easy and very cheap to raise because I live in a tropical weather country.If I lived in a cold country I would not have iguanas!!Too much trouble!!

:::Flavia
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::: :i think you're making it sound far too easy!!!!

::::i'd recommend annaul checkups. and they are NOT cheap or easy to raise / house!

::::food costs a bit, electrical bills are a lot, and nerves are even more!

::::the iguana is not for a novice herper. They can grow to be a very large and formidable animal. They can take a finger off if they really wanted to.

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