Everyone's right. Iggys are a HUGE commitment and not to be taken lightly...tho all too often they are.

I rescued a 2' female from a friend who ran an iggy rescue. He was running out of room and knew I was a fast learner who loved reptiles, so she was given to me to 'foster'. He gave me the basic crash course in iguana keeping and I built her a 4'hx2'wx3'd wood and wire cage with 2 UV lamps, a CHE, a heat pad on a rheostat with carpet wrapped around it on a branch...the works for a young lady who'd never owned one before. The cage was that small BTW because she would never grow any larger..the idiot my friend had saved her from only fed her iceberg and spinach with nothing else, so she had developed MBD. When I got her, she had a 90 degree angled kink in her spine at the base of her tail. Thanks to my friend, though, she was tamed and handleable as long as you picked her up from behind or distracted her. I forgot that once and got a nasty whipping, proof that you always have to be careful even with the "tamed" ones.

Lots of things can happen to and with these lizards. They are great, and CAN be really good pets for someone who knows the ropes, but to get to that point takes a ton of work.