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From: k9un@ihlpa.UUCP (ague)
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Subject: Re: Vivariums
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 17:35:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 17:35:42 1985
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When I was a youth, I had several iguanas.  The largest was
about 2 feet long tip to tip.  I had them for several years
and had built a fairly large cage (4' x 2.5' x 2.5') for them.
We kept them on mostly a vagetarian diet but occasionally
threw in some meal worms.  They were fascinating pets and even my parents
became fond of them.  I eventually gave the whole thing away to
the young son of a friend of my parents. He kept them for several
more years and finally gave them to the Lincoln Park Zoo's reptile
house.  
The cage was made of masonite with a plate glass front.  I had
a 100 W  light bulb in a reflector at the top of the cage.
Newspapers were used on the bottom and daily rations of
grated carrots, celery leaves, bananas and other fruit were
provided.
I think I was intrigued with dinosaurs as a small child, and
this was as close as I could get to having one as a pet...

I lived in a co-op in Skokie at the time (co-op is a 4-apartment
two story where we all owned our own apartments) and was
rather limited in the types of pets my parents would allow.

That sums up my experiences with lizards as pets.