Diet
In the nature these lizards most of all love winged termites, but it is little bit difficult to get termites in captivity.They also feed on moths and spiders. Instead we can feed them with live crickets ,grasshoppers and other insects that we find. In the summer we can caught insect from our own nature and feed them with, as long as we know that they are not toxic. Before feeding the lizards with the insects we have to powder them with some vita-mineralpowder, this you can buy in a petshop. They will also have UV-b light or D3 drops together with Ca in the drinking water. You will need to have a little waterbowl in their terrarium so they can drink and take a bath when they are changnin their skin.
It is not so much to say about their food, it is a little bit up to your self to see that they get the food they eat. I feed my with mainly waxmotts and crickets, but they eat all you give them, zoophobas, mealworms, spiders, catepillars beetles.......as long as it moves..
Sex
Do you know how to sex these lizards ? You look at the shape of the body, the female have nice kurves and not as thick before the tail as the male.....the male look more robust in the body and is more broad between the rear legs.
Terrarium
In my terrarium I have fine sand and mopane roots to hide under, the temp is about 25 degrees Celsius in the tank and under the lamp it is 35 degrees Celsius, I have two 100 w halogen lamps. These lizards live in forests and they like to hide under wood and loose bark, in nature the live around treelogs and in arboreal areas. In my terrarium I have mosquito netting on the walls to climb on.
A year in my lizards life :
January and February: , We get much food, crickets, mealworms,zoophobas, we have to eat much to get ready for hibernate, in the middle of february we do not get any more food and we get a little bit less light and heat, only water, this last until the beginning of march.
March: We are put away into a dark cold place ( temp :10 - 15 degrees Celsius) and only a little light every day, we need a water bowl or something so we can drink, now we are staying here for about 6 - 8 weeks.....we have to be looked at some days a week so that we are ok, if we not you have to take us out from the cold place and let us wake up, but not to fast, take us out and let us be in the tank for two days, in the inhibitate tank I have sand and some stone to hide under.
April: Middle of april we come out again, little light and heat for some weeks, we usually mate now and the babies do not come until the autumm, I get mine around week 44. You see if the female get thicker and thicker and the time will never come until the birth....they are livebearer so the small ones will show up from nothing...
May-Sept: Full light and heat from now,If it is possible we want to be outside in the sun.......do not forget to give us a water bowl...we have a lot of crickets together with us in our outdoor tank...så if we are hungry we just eat one.
Okt - Dec: We stay inside, this is our normally spring/summer and we just enjoy the "sun" and eat as much we want.