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>> Anonymous
I use to have an iguana. He never got that big though (considering we didn't give him enough space to grow to his full size).
>> Anonymous
>>243395
what'd you do, keep him in a jar?
reptiles don't grow according to the size of their enclosure, dumbass.
he was probably small because he didn't get the diet he needed.
>> Anonymous
>>243433
The first time someone asked me if it was true a reptile wouldn't get very big if kept in a small enclosure I said yes, because I assumed it was understood that the poor fucker would die prematurely from lack of exercise and wallowing in its own waste.

I didn't realize people actually thought they were like saltwater fish. WTF.
>> Anonymous
>>243464
only that fish don't stop growing in small tanks either.
>> Anonymous
>>243473
No, but overcrowding in saltwater fish (probably freshwater as well, I don't know) will cause slowed or stunted growth in many schooling fish as concentrations of hormone excretions build-up and inhibit growth. Not the same as keeping an individual reptile or even fish in an enclosure too small and expecting them not to grow but I assumed it may be where the myth stems from.