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01-Jul-06, 12:53 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: newcastle NSW Gender:  | | |
hey people.
Im thinking of getting a shingleback, and i was wondering if anyone here can give me some advice on what they eat, sizes for enclosures, and anythink else that could help me
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01-Jul-06, 01:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | RE: shingleback help
Enclosure: Anything bigger than 4ftx2ftx2ft for more than 2
Heating: Hot end of roughly 30c with a basking spot a bit hotter...cool end 24c ish
Substrate: Fake grass matting or newspaper
Food: Any fruit and veg (except citric) and snails - Caught from a non baited area and if unsure of this eaither keep the snails in a container for 24hrs or dont feed them.....A snail can travel up to 3 house blocks in a rainy night.
Hides: A few hollow logs or something for them to go into
Lighting: Reptile specific tube....eg repti-star or repti-glo something that give sout UVA and UVB
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01-Jul-06, 01:06 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: newcastle NSW Gender: | | | | RE: shingleback help
thanks. iv heard you can feed them dog food. is that ok?
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01-Jul-06, 02:30 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | RE: shingleback help
Yeh the puppy stuff....make sure there is no fish in it though
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01-Jul-06, 02:42 PM
|  | biasedly unbiased Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender:  | | | | RE: shingleback help
Why no fish?
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01-Jul-06, 02:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | RE: shingleback help
Not good for them......
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01-Jul-06, 02:50 PM
| | biasedly unbiased Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender: | | | | RE: shingleback help
Why is it no good for them?
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01-Jul-06, 04:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | RE: shingleback help
Im not sure of the exact reasons just have been told by a reputable dealer that fish isnt good for them
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01-Jul-06, 04:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-04 Location: Nowhere with NoOne:) | | | |
They like to dig and 'snuggle' in something at night, so a substrate better than newspaper would be good for them. I used rice hulls.
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03-Jul-06, 09:45 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: newcastle NSW Gender: | | | |
Iv heard that you can use leaf litter.
but do you collect the leaves from the yard, or can you buy them from somewhere?
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04-Jul-06, 03:09 PM
|  | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender: | | | |
I use newspaper as flooring with a large shallow plastic tub with wood shavings in it. it is easy to keep clean. I would not recomend leaf litter as it will have all sorts of creepy crawleys in it as well as moisture that will turn into humidity under heat and humidity will kill the shingles. You can have alot of trouble keeping shingles.
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04-Jul-06, 04:50 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: brisbane | | | |
if you live on the coast where there is higher humidity you should use rice poles or shredded newspaper for substrate to keep the humidity down as they are prone to skin problems.have your hot end of your enclosure at 38 to 40 degrees.we did'nt leave water in thier enclosure to keep humidity down aswell.we would leave the water in for a couple of hours once a week as they get alot of moisture out of the food they eat.
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04-Jul-06, 05:05 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: sydney | | | |
I believe non-fish varietys are not used because of the bones...
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04-Jul-06, 06:58 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-05 Location: NSW | | | |
use torn up news paper , as they like to dig into it to sleep, if on coast what the humidity, as humidity will coures flu like symptons eg. your lizard starts to snease or sound weezey. this can kill the shingle back lizard.
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04-Jul-06, 07:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-04 Location: Fraser Coast Gender: | | | |
Whatever you do avoid humidity as much as possible.
Simone.
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