monitors grow into monsters that feed on chickens, eggs and meat, not to mention everything else that is edible. there's one living in a drain across the road from my house too

This post has been edited by funkychips: May 30 2006, 01:50 PM

No we don't have basilisks in malaysia. They are native to South America .The lizard you caught is a garden fence agama (Calotes versicolor). It belongs to the same family as bearded dragons and butterfly lizards. Very nervous lizards, hard to keep in small cages and they need plenty of full sunlight to regulate their body metabolism.

This post has been edited by funkychips: May 30 2006, 05:57 PM

orange clock work, is that from a brood you hatched or you caught/bought it?

the males are very cool-looking...red head and black throat...but they bite when catch them...and they got jagged teeth like beardie...can draw blood loh...keep beardie better lar like dat hehehehe.......

they are not dangerous, just run around too fast and not syiok to keep if you want to handle them.

gila monster! once kena bitten, it's like a mad rush to the hospital. You waste time trying to get the lizard off your hand, becoz once it bite down it will chew and chew to get the venom into the wound. Then you get dizziness, swelling of the bitten area, vomiting, and blurring of vision. If u are in Malaysia, i think end of story already lor.....if no antivenom