The Chinese prism lizard ( scientific name : Tropidophorus sinicus ) is a reptile of the genus Tropidophorus sinicus in the family Litosaurus. It is distributed in Vietnam and Guangxi, Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places in Chinese mainland, and generally inhabits shallow water channels, gravel and weeds next to the flowing water of mountains and streams. It lives at altitudes ranging from 450 to 1350 meters. The type origin of this species is in Dinghu Mountain, Xijiang, Guangdong.
This paragraph is my Baidu entry copied and pasted over, you don't have to re-search the entry to find the content, because the above text is the entire content of the entry, the research introduction or breeding of the lizard is very few, after all, this guy has no economic value, the second is that the appearance is flat and there is no ornamental value, and the third is not widely distributed, most of them inhabit the depths of the dense forest ravine and the distribution is not very large and can not enter people's vision frequently.
So this article is not an authoritative post, just some of the breeding experience shared by ordinary dick lovers and some "conclusions" drawn from personal observations----- blind JB nonsense for so long, start to talk about the right thing.
▲ The first time I met it was in such a mountain stream, and the picture above is a few photos of its hometown environment, with clear water, rocks, fallen leaves, and moss.
▲ Fallen leaves turned over from the inside when they found ferns to build water and land tanks, and there was a small frog of its neighbor
▲ When I was caught, I immediately bought an acrylic fish tank and put it in as a temporary foothold, put some sand in it to lay a base, and placed the moss stone leaves collected at random, and placed it in a window position that is more ventilated and moss is not easy to suffocate.
▲ The bottom of the sand has accumulated water to show a high and a low terrain, so as to create a wet and dry environment on the one hand, because I do not understand, I want to see where it will inhabit, often use a straw to suck off excess water to add new water to make the water smelly, plants also wrap the roots with cloth strips, to ensure that it is moist and breathable to the greatest extent
▲ Find that it especially likes to hide under the damp leaf drop pile
▲ During the feeding of red worms, found that did not open their mouths, until they went to the community to catch a small spider and threw it in, found that there was an immediate reaction, and chased to eat, guessing that it liked the living creatures, so Bought a bag of cricket seedlings from the Internet to raise, feeding one a day. Eat normally.
▲ It is too ugly to use acrylic, so I changed it to a super white glass with a water grass lamp, and created a good-looking scene for it according to the original terrain, which is like a point.
▲ Ferns have adapted to the new environment and have pulled out new leaves. (Plants need to hold a watering can every day to moisturize, create a humid feeding environment, and also maintain moisture for the lizards)
▲ After spraying water, it will hide under a moss blanket because the bottom is relatively wet
▲ Reptiles like sun bathing, so as to supplement calcium, so bought a UV lamp occasionally see it come out and open it
▲ The new house should come with a few hard photos
▲ When I caught it back, it was the alternation of winter and spring, the temperature change was relatively large, I bought a thermometer to observe for a while, and found that 15 degrees is a critical point, above 15 degrees will be very active to come out to forage and crawl, below 15 degrees will find a place to hide and see can not see
▲It has begun to molt
▲ The native water and land tank is finally ready, ushered in the little guy's 3rd home, after more than a month of scenery, the plant state is very good, the terrain as far as possible to restore the stream ecology, there is running water, moss, rocks, fallen leaves, moisturizing and ventilation, indoor temperature also tends to be stable, it can be said that it is its mansion.
▲ The ridge lizard adapted very well when it went in, so it directly threw the small crickets in and let them prey on their own, and gradually changed to feeding the black shell shrimp
▲ This guy is a typical "into the tank no", the space terrain is complex plus its natural imitation of the skin color, so that you do not know where to go to find it, happy or when looking for food will come out to give you a picture, other times even a fart shadow is not seen, like the above Figure 1, I look at the stone integration into one. Recently, it has been found that it prefers to hide in the damp stone walls near the flowing water, and occasionally digs a small hole in the moss to drill into. (The environment in which it lives is humid.)
postscript:
After more than four months of careful breeding, the prism lizard experienced a molt, the body length grew two centimeters and a circle, after all, after eating my box of small crickets, I plan to find a chance to put it back to its original hometown in the next year, wild things should not be imprisoned in the land of projectiles, nature is its ultimate belonging, I hope it can snap or be snapped, contribute to the reproduction of the population.
The Chinese prism lizard was included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ver3.1 - Near Threatened (NT) in 2013, and now the wild environment has been developed, and the population condition is only bad, so don't take it home without adequate preparation.
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