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Anonymous
Greetings /an/,

I recently found a baby lizard underneath my fridge. The picture is not mine but that's approximately what its body looked like. I took it to a pet store and they weren't quite sure what it was - it's sides are similar to that of a Californian alligator lizard, but its back is a light brown to tan color. Anyway, the temperature here is very hot and they told me if I let it go it would probably die.

My main question is this. Tomorrow I will be getting a terrarium and heating lamp from a friend who has quite a few snakes, but until then I am keeping it in a large tupperware container (flat-bottom) with lots of holes cut into the lid, and I have a few live crickets in with it and a small container of water.

I'm probably just being paranoid about the thing since it was living under the fridge, but will this environment be enough until tomorrow?

-Concerned Hippie
>> Anonymous
Try to get a picture of your reptile, otherwise I got nothing on it.
>> Anonymous
really, same as ^
Need a pic. There could even be the off chance that what you caught was actually a small salamander, in which case the bright heat would kill him.
Or at least attempt to use intense google-fu and find a picture of the animal.
>> Anonymous
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First off, I'm really sorry about the shitty image quality. My digital camera broke about a month ago and I don't care enough to repair it so this is a cell phone picture.

For size comparison that is the lid of a Propel bottle.

All I can really say about it is the shape is almost identical to a skink. Its tongue is not forked. Its belly is tan with black spots. Its sides have black and brown vertical stripes on top of light brown. Its back is a lighter brown if you can see it in the picture.

I really wish my camera was working.
>> Anonymous
>>309679
see if it will crawl up your urethra
>> Anonymous
looks like a newt or salamander.
>> Anonymous
>>309709
I'm pretty sure it's neither, don't they have 'damp' skin? This lizards skin is smooth but completely dry.
>> Anonymous
It isn't a newt or salamander. It would help identification if you could provide a location.
>> Anonymous
>>309725
I live in So Cal.
>> Anonymous
http://www.californiaherps.com/identification/lizardsid/lizards.id.html
>> Anonymous
it's a skink
>> Anonymous
>>309733
You sure? Because now even I'm confused,>>309731says that juvenile alligator lizards are often confused for skinks.

Well, either way, is this environment enough for it until I get the aquarium and light tomorrow? I'm worred it might get too cold and die, so I'm considering putting one end of the tupperware next to my computer or something so that one end of it is heated.
>> Anonymous
It's not like its a displaced tropical species. Temperature-wise it should be fine. You might want to give it a small layer of soil so that it isn't against the cold plastic, though. At that size I'd be more concerned about the crickets (which can be aggressive and nibble on toes) and the water. You might just want to put a few drops on a leaf or something. When you do get the heating lamp be careful not to cook it.
>> Anonymous
>>309739
Okay, thanks. Tomorrow I'll take it to a reptile specialty place so they can figure out just what it is, if it's an alligator lizard I'll just drop it off in the mountains on the way to my friend's place.
>> Anonymous
most likely a native alligator lizard. Rather than investing time and energy setting up a habitat for it, get a positive ID, and if it IS one of the four CA native alligator lizard species, drive it out to the boonies and release it.