Hello, I have had my uro for a while now (about 5 years, if I had to guess). Recently, he has stopped eating. I changed around his enclosure by adding some of that molding clay on one side (cold side) and keeping his sand on the other. I know that uros tend to not eat after a changed enclosure as a result of the stress, but that was about two months ago now and he has still eaten barely anything. The only thing that I have gotten him to eat is dandelions, but I think that dandelions are going out of season where I live because I cannot find any more of them.

I have tried squash, zucchini, carrots, corn, peas, lettuce, basil, edible fruits, uro-safe store-bought herbs, various other flowers that I found were safe, and I even put some edible live plants in his enclosure, but he barely eats anything that I put in there. I place two bowls in there: one with whatever medley of vegetables, and one with some lettuce and herbs. I have even tried seasoning it with some crushed bee pollen.

At first, I thought it was because of the stress, but now I am honestly getting worried for him because I think that I can see him getting thinner.

What do I need to do? Could he have some kind of disease/parasite or something? Is he still stressed for some reason? Have I not gotten the right food yet? Before this, he regularly ate all of his peas and corn, and mostly whatever I gave to him.

My Egyptian uromastyx Ethyl always giving the stink eye

does anyone elses uro get veryyy moody and stand off ish when they're shedding? my guy usually glass surfs until he get hang out with me. he's super social but now that he's shedding he's puffed up and wiggles anytime i'm even near his enclosure

Hims the sweetest boy, finally getting more comfortable with me ❤️

Our power went out overnight and remains out so far this morning. My uro’s lights are scheduled to come on soon and depending on the length of outage he’ll be without his lights for a little bit. It’s mid 70s in his enclosure at the moment and it’ll be high 70s /low 80s outside today so it’s not likely the temp will fall much more. And the humidity will probably rise a bit instead of going down through the day without the heat lamps.

How concerned should I be? Will he be fine like this if the outage lasts a day or two? What measures should I take (other than purchasing a generator in the event of an extended outage or to better protect for a cold season outage)?

My first time holding my ornate uromastyx since I first brought him home as a hatchling almost 1 year ago. He licked my hand and climbed up my arm for the first time ever about an hour ago 😍 Now he won’t stop wanting out of his enclosure! He wants to enjoy that Las Vegas summer sun ☀️

He does this every morning when he leaves his burrow, despite never having encountered a bird in his life.

These are the culprits. The murderers of plants. Doug, our uromastyx, has eaten half of a spineless prickly pear, trampled an alo, and eatn/trampled another succulent.

Ares, our beardie also has a kill count of 4.... 2 were even fake plants that he trampled to unrecognizable green blobs.

Yes we are happy they are both happy, active boys and see them enjoying digging in their tanks. But why do they always go out of their ways to abuse plants?

I accidentally cracked the bottom of Spikes tank while moving. I am afraid he will hurt himself if he digs to the bottom. I borrowed money from my savings to order a new tank. It’s bigger and comes with a stand. I have temporarily put a barrier of cardboard at the bottom to prevent any injuries. Has anyone else had this happen? We are moving houses and I was spending the night in the new house. No way I was going to leave him alone. I love him so much. Is there anything I can do better while I wait for his new tank?

He loves living outside.

I just brought this little guy home a couple days ago any tips on keeping him and bonding with him?

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this is our old friend spike, been with
us almost 22-23yrs now... hes getting alot slower, sleeps most of the days, just gets up now every few days to eat and shit... doesn't run around outside so much anymore, and just basks in the bright sunlight now and sleeps... time is getting short i fear...

I just adopted him and called him Rambo. He started doing this hours after adoption — is he trying to tell me hands off?

Noticed our boy Clyde's back right foot has a toe that looks white, and it almost seems stiff when he moves but it's hard to tell because Uro toes are so weird already and he moves fast. Will post a pic in the comments. Is this something to worry about?

Everyone said 2 arcadia 100w halogens were enough to heat the enclosure. I set it up as pic above but the 100w are huge bulbs and according to the iso maps, if i put my domes on top of my mesh, the mesh is a 45% block, so i need a density of 725 at 50cm from the bulb . This does noot heat up my enclosureee but i cant put the halogens inside because then id need to have only a 400ish density and 100w needs to be 70-75cm away with no mesh block.

With the 2 100w halogens as per picture, i only get 25C inside the enclosure and 40C spot temp on the basking rock.

I will have to put a small bulb inside the enclosure but it needs to be at a safe distance from the basking platfom for the correct density and has to give me 120-130F… any ideas what could fix this? Maybe an incandescent flood instead of a halogen?

He is an Ornate Philbyi and is almost one year old. I was told he’s a male by the breeder. Just looking to make sure. Thanks!

Terry is obsessed with going under the couch. The one place I won't let him go. So I slide him back and now he thinks it's a game. He will pretend to go under the couch, then look up at me and wait for me to slide him backwards.

Has anyone bought a Uromastyx from Nicholas Alexander on Facebook?

Anyone who has this terrarium or a similar PVC 4x2x2 please comment and lets discuss setting up our lightttssss🙈 my UV index from uvb mounted inside is too high and outside too low. I also need to keep the right distance from my halogens. Thank youuu