A baby horned lizard

[JenFid]

My mom who lives in rural San Diego sent me a couple pics of a baby horny toad they found this morning. I was surprised to see how much it resembles our beardies. She's reluctant to let it go because they have a lot of road runners and owls around their place and she doesn't want it to get eaten. It is so adorable! If it's possible to domesticate them I might have her try to send it my way

A couple interesting facts about horned lizards: They can shoot blood out of their eyes when threatened, and the spikes on their heads are actual horns, as in made of bone instead of pointy scales like beardies

 

[TASTIGER]

aw he is too cute omg look at that face

 

[TASTIGER]

http://www.repticzone.com/caresheets/1339.html

i found this!! i hope this helps

 

[JenFid]

Hehe I know I was already looking at caresheets for them! They seem to be pretty similar to beardies...except their main diet is harvester ants :shock: and it doesn't look like they eat less as they get older...one of the sheets said 20-100 ants a day, lol >.<

 

[TASTIGER]

they do eat crickets

 

[GeckoGarden]

Hehe I know I was already looking at caresheets for them! They seem to be pretty similar to beardies...except their main diet is harvester ants :shock: and it doesn't look like they eat less as they get older...one of the sheets said 20-100 ants a day, lol >.<

lllretiles sells ants online with a small shipping fee.

Great place to get them..
http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/feeder-crickets-worms-rodents-roaches-and-more/harvester-ants/


theres the link

There is also a little care guide they provide at that same link, its really helpful, seeing how not all horned lizards actually eat ants,

 

[JenFid]

Oh I know she already let it go. If I lived in CA still I definitely would have kept him, but I don't want to burden my mom with taking care of him for a couple days and then have to ship him out to me, so I was only wistfully thinking I could keep him It's a shame too, considering lllreptiles is probably 10 minutes from her place, lol.

 

[GeckoGarden]

Oh I know she already let it go. If I lived in CA still I definitely would have kept him, but I don't want to burden my mom with taking care of him for a couple days and then have to ship him out to me, so I was only wistfully thinking I could keep him It's a shame too, considering lllreptiles is probably 10 minutes from her place, lol.

Awww to bad. He or she was a cutie! Maybe one day you'll get your hands one one

 

[cmclay]

That's a cool looking little guy.

A friend of mine lives in North Carolina and we caught a albino gecko there, he still has it and it's an awesome lizard.

 

[lippertthereptileguy]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS SO CUTE ITS GONA DRIVE ME NUTS

 

[valcash]

OMG too stinking CUTE!!!!!!

 

[lrowl003]

HAHAHHA SO CUTE!

 

[Atrax]

How awesome it that!!!!!! omg, I wish you could have kept him He was so cute and pretty!
I always loved thorny devils!

 

[Sashee]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO FRIGGIN CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JenFid]

Oh my, well a friend of mine who does some enviromentalist checking at construction sites has been finding a few and sending me the pics. She got a pair of some basking together and their horns are so huge I couldn't believe it. I'll have to get those up later today