Best Display Reptile?

[jason79]

I have a friend that has a breeding pair of canary GTP they are still yellow as adults and they are both really tame and never try to bite. I think they make awesome display animals.

[Wh00h0069]

Would a GTP be able to live in that cage forever? And would I want the 40 or 80 watt heat panel?

Sorry just saw this post. Yes, they could live in a 2x2x2 forever, and they require a 40 watt heat panel.

[STEW]

I love GTPs....but I'm wondering why there haven't been more votes for the Chams? Is their care really intensive??

If you go to a chameleon forum, they make it seem like they will die if you look at them wrong. They arent that hard to care for if you ask me. Keeping crickets alive is the hardest part of chameleon keeping as long as you set up the cham's enclosure correctly

[Warocker's Wife]

ATB or GTP display well

[mqbuchanan]

No doubt GTP, although my Panther Chameleon wow's people just as much.

Side note, not sure if this is allowed, but if anyone is looking for a really nice GTP checkout Southern Chondros, she is taking reasonable offers for 1 or 2 more of her 09 clutch (I picked up KB-09-06 already!) to raise some funds. Great chance a highend designer GTP with a lineage, and Kim is super helpful. This will be my first GTP, have a slew of BP's and others now.

[jonnydanger]

Green tree python for sure. They look amazing, and are always visible. You can also make their display visual appealing by adding greenery.

I agree 100% also. Just need to save up some money so I can have one too haha

[WingedWolfPsion]

A group of small, active, diurnal lizards would make the best display. Anoles, Lygodactylus geckos, Curly-tails, or other active lizards will hunt, court, put on social displays, and generally entertain absolutely anyone who would stop to watch them. When kept in groups with one male and several females, there's virtually always something going on in there to watch.

If you keep them in an area with low but regular traffic, they learn to get used to the passage of people, and will eventually stop freaking out and hiding when someone walks up.

Ball pythons are great pets--but the small lizards are tops for an interesting display. None of the other species you mentioned can compare in terms of sheer enjoyment from watching them.

I just got a trio of Lygodactylus williamsi, and I can watch them for an hour at a time. They're intelligent, curious, and they're always up to something.

Don't let the low prices of some small herps influence you, either. Green anoles (for example) are great fun to keep, and that's what it's really all about with a display. A gorgeous fully-planted vivarium with naturalistic landscaping and brightly-colored, active, engaging little animals is going to make a much more dramatic impression than the lump of green stillness that is a chondro, or the occasional twitch from a bored frilled dragon basking under a heat lamp.

When you're setting up a display to WATCH (rather than just look at in passing), think of species that actually move around and do things that will hold your interest.

[tsdsbd]

chameleons have intense husbandry req's so if you get one make sure you know what your doin!

[SK_Exotics]

I was going to say either dwarf caiman or green anaconda, because i want to get one of them if i do a zoo quality display.

After seeing this though, i am giving thought to a gtp of my own!

[Lolo76]

I voted for GTP, like so many others - they are just stunning!! But I also have to add Panther Chameleon to the list, as I'm always impressed by their beautiful flashy colors. You can probably tell by my current avatar, LOL.