Sauromalus varius

[Beazer]

Just got this pair from a good friend today. They are San Esteban Island Chuckwallas (aka pied chuckwallas/painted chuckwallas). The male is going to be a lot more white, right now his skin is stained from the crappy substrate that was used previously on it. The female is the darker one and she is scarred up and a bit stained as well, she's usually black and orangish colored. She is scarred up because she was kept in with the male in close quarters :/ . After it warms up again they will be going outside in a natural set up with boulders/burrows and spineluss opuntia and some other plants that are edible and that they enjoy (hopefully as close to their natural habitat as possible. I hope to aquire more unrelated pairs and try to breed them lol. But yeah, they are endangered and gorgeous animals. Hope you all enjoy! Oh and sorry about the crappy shots, I am just tired and too lazy to take time shooting them today lol.


Male:

Female:

I will post new pics of them after they are back to their normal colors.


-Jon DeLong

 

[VARNYARD]

Awesome Jon, they look cool. How tame are they?

 

[dorton]

Thats cool, I took some pics of one at the local zoo,that looks a lot
like the first one. Nice loking lizard.

 

[mdmtmm]

Cool looking lizard. Enjoy!

 

[dicy]

those r sum nice lizards gonna try to breed those???

 

[COWHER]

really unique i like 'em a lot! :lol: 8) 8) :lol:

 

[olympus]

Never seen those before, thanks for the lesson.

 

[Mike]

Cool lizards. I've never kept them.

 

[dorton]

Here is a pic of on that reminded me of yours, its here at our local Zoo, in the Sonoran Desert exhibit.

 

[Mike]

Interesting pic, but the lizard looks obese.....maybe it's not, since I'm not familiar with their body structure.

 

[snakehandler]

it actually looks like its overrun by a car..haha.
but seriously..strange colours they have.

 

[MMRR - jif]

Congrats on the purchase. I'm envious! I have a single male red backed chuck that is one of my favorite lizards ( I seem to have a lot of favorites). Someday I'd like to keep a San Esteban chuck. Good luck with the project. They look healthy.

 

[maddogg9019]

that's an interesting pattern they have, good buy!

 

[joshandjack]

nice chucks. ive never kept any island chuckwalla species, but they are really cool, and i think they have finally started to become more affordable, i hope your planning on breeding them, they are really neat. i used to keep Sauromalous Ater but it was somewhat tricky converting thier diets from creosote to dandelion flowers and mixed veggies.