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that's good to know. I have set up my basking rock to test it to make sure the temperature is ok before I put it in an enclosure. It's been running for about 6hrs and the temp is sitting right at 35 degrees.
Feels nice and warm to touch, but not hot at all.
PS. Who came up with the name 'Lizzy'?
My boy has given his EWDs heaps of different names, I think they have finally ended up being 'Team Stealth Bomber'. One hunts on stealth mode, the other just bombs anything that moves
I'm to blame for naming her Lizzy. The name of Lizzy just seemed to fit and seemed natural and she seems to respond to it now (at the time I didn't know Lizzy's sex, found that out in late July when she showed up after a 3 month absense and was fat rather than skinny, and then it was confirmed on Father's Day when a baby EWS showed up and Lizzy was standing guard while it was investigating some little ants).
She's amazing and seems extremely adaptable and very cleavour. Very friendly now too and perfectly at home in close company with my wife and I.
Lizards are great value and the best pets IMO. She adopted us and has become a fixture and extremely friendly (almost daily visitor inside our house for the last 11 months). She's very clean too, rarely disgracing herself inside on the carpet or the furnature.
I'm very fond of Lizzy now and she's got to be most spoilt wild EWS around - and I think she knows it and likes it too. Got me wrapped around her little toes she has. She took the initiative and made friends with my wife recently and has won her over now too. Cleavour girl.
I'm now working on befriending the big alpha male EWS who lives under my house and has been hanging about near my front patio and flower bed and a/c and who has been mating with Lizzy and probably fathered the baby (it's real cute little baby girl - very very shy and skittish though). He's a wonderful big prime specimen of a male EWS, very solidly built - an EWS Arnie , I've named him Scrapper because he has old battle scares all over him and he's game as Ned Kelly.
Had a breakthough with him this afternoon, gave him about dozen live and dead mealworms from about 2ft away by dropping them on the grass near him one at time, and he knew I was giving them to him.... and was looking at me after each worm to ask for another..... cheaky bugger.
On the matter of the heated basking spot, I was very surprised initially when Lizzy took charge of the modem's transformer, she absolutely loves taking siestas on it.
She is not phased by the phone ringing, only 3" away from her, and she watches you when you answer the phone and talk on it.... I was told by a Herp from the USA that 36C is about perfect for Lizzy and she proves this by liking it so much.
