[dtaylor21184]

is it possible to keep thorny devils in captivity and if so has anyone managed to successfully keep them?

 

[Dan]

Try reading the other thread on this subject a few posts down.

I guess a few people watched that program :lol2:

 

[matt020593]

i read somewhere that they eat ants so they are hard to keep but if theyre keepable i want one lol

 

[dtaylor21184]

 

[dtaylor21184]

sorry i just had to put up this picture their gorgeous

 

[dtaylor21184]

just found out they eat between 4000 - 10000 ants a day. thats a few then

 

[matt020593]

oh lol

 

[Nursey]

try here as reticulatus said
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/lizards/18741-thorny-devil-australia.html

 

[weeminx]

u cant get them here.:? beautiful tho.:flrt:

 

[leila]

yeah I would love one of these but don't think they would be very easy to keep.:-|

 

[tom1400]

i started the otha thread the otha day and ppl sed they wanted them aswell. But you cannot get the ants because they are a special type of ant, and there is noway to collect 7000 ants a day lol. But i think there lovely. Everyone watched austin stevens the otha day when he found 1 lol

 

[dtaylor21184]

i saw one when steve irwin found one.

is there no way of having an ant farm for them

 

[BELIAL]

you would have to keep a colony of something like wood ants (high in formic acid) and that is not feasable...there is a reason no one keeps em..they are just impossible to keep alive...any wc survive a couple months but then die off..shame really as they are very cool..specially the whole blood thing!

 

[tom1400]

if u did have 1 it would need alot of ventilation but you could because the ants will be crawling all over your house. But i was told there is a texas thorny lizard which is available to buy and looks like the thorny devil

 

[Jay123]

Yeh Very Nice, Looks Like Something From Pokemon ! lol ( Going Back Abit)

I Would Love One ,,, But I Think An Iguana Is Enough

Jay

 

[dtaylor21184]

could you not feed them outside your viv say in a seperate container

 

[dtaylor21184]

texas horned lizard

 

[dtaylor21184]

desert horned lizard

 

[dtaylor21184]

round tailed horned lizard

 

[Blazey]

desert horned lizard is nothing like a thorny devil and believe me, we had two and they are hard to keep alive. one died and the other lasted for a few months after then just died out of nowhere. they're wc and often have parasites, and even if u cant see them, they are often riddled with them inside. If you dont like seeing pets dying then i wouldnt advise you getting them.