Iguana Iguana: Guide for Successful Captive Care

Iguana Iguana: Guide for Successful Captive Care is devoted entirely to the Green Iguana. This user-friendly edition contains 81 colour photographs, and information covers reproduction and captive breeding, normal and abnormal behaviour, safe and effective methods of restraint, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of nutrition related diseases, the development of metabolic bone disease, infectious diseases and non-infectious conditions, parasitism, ophthalmic disorders, miscellaneous causes of anemia, skin diseases, abnormal stool and colour changes, tail and claw disorders and care, and fractures and their management. An entire section includes information on scoliosis and kyphoscoliosis, an admonition against purposeful cooling to achieve restraint, and material on normal physiologic values, sources of reptile related products, and fluid therapy, including intramedullary (intraosseous).

Fredric L. Frye. 216 pages. 1995. Hardcover. ISBN - 0894648926