Does Anyone Keep Red Head Agamas?

[pridecity]

One of my sister's had a friend who wanted to get rid of a few lizards. And, of course, because I'm the reptile sister, I got them. I now have a Red Head Agama. Can't really find a decent forum specifically for their genus, so I thought I'd bug you guys again.

Does anyone have Agamas? Does anyone have specifically Red Head Agamas? I'm getting a bit of mixed information on search. Some say sand for substrate because they are desert creatures and some say use moss. I've read they need low humidity like BDs, but if you use moss, doesn't it raise humidity?

I'm confuzzled.

 

[Irish Eyes (Mrs.Z)]

It's a pretty thing, but I've never known anyone who has one, so I'll be reading this thread to learn something new.

 

[pridecity]

Well, so far I've found that they lose their color at night. Apparently it's too hard to sleep and keep those pretty colors at the same time. Fish do that too.

I might be getting a female blood bearded dragon and a normal bearded dragon from this same guy. He posted them on craigslist and said that if no one wanted them then I could have them too. He kept this little guy in with the bearded dragons and said they did fine together.

 

[sweet~nichole~marie]

Deer Fern Farms has a little bit of information about Butterfly Agamas

http://www.deerfernfarms.com/ButterflyAgamas.htm

Don't know if that will help, but I was looking at their Uromastyx pages and saw the Agama link.

Good luck!

 

[pridecity]

Thanks for the link Sweet Nichole. At this point, it doesn't matter anymore how much information I have. I was at my boyfriend's taking pictures just 10 minutes ago and his dog came running up and scared the lizard. He was in my hand, but I didn't see the dog until he had all ready jumped. I've had him less than 24 hours and now I'll probably never see him again. We were outside and I lost visual after he turned around one of the hearses. I'm sure he's not even in the yard anymore.

I feel like such an idiot. Perfectly good lizard is now on limited time because I wasn't paying attention to where the dog was.

 

[sweet~nichole~marie]

Oh, that is too bad. I hope you can locate him

 

[pridecity]

It's unlikely. He's fast and is a climber. He'll be dead within a few months, if not a few weeks. I might try to look again tonight but he changes colors, so it will be hard. I'm night-blind.

 

[pridecity]

Okay, God or whoever must like me a little more than I seem to think. I found him. And I actually caught him! Remind me the next time I lose a lizard near cars to make sure they are tall cars! I'm a large woman and I had to crawl very very slowly under a 1959 Cadillac Hearse (think Ghostbusters) with two flat tires. This was all while holding up a tarp wrapped around the car and trying not to scare the lizard.

This is how far I was when I saw him:

This is where he was:

This is the clearance I had to get to him. My hand is only 1/4 of an inch from the top of that cd:

Evil little bugger: