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You'll need a huge (a high tank, with lots of branches in it, they're tree dwellers) tank for it, as they get quite big. Don't use heating rocks, ever. instead have an easily accessible branch close to the top of the tank near the heating lamp (not to close, the iguana should not be able to touch it) Keeping them in an ordinary room wouldn't work in the long run, they need to be kept in a moist enviroment (about 80-100% air humidity).
They're strictly vegetarian and should be fed a broad variety of fruits and veggies, although no cabbage, broccoli, rhubarb or cauliflower <- they contain lots of iron, we don't want that, Iron binds calcium. we want calcium. Give it iguana pellets to complete its diet and buy calcium-powder (at your local pharmacist) and mix it with the food every other day. Apart from the regular lighing you'll need an UV-lamp (UV-light stimulates the lizards production of vitamin D, without vitamin D it can't use the calcium) feed it twice a day or so, and be quick to clean out any uneaten veggies before they go bad (as well as anything else in the tank that shouldn't be there, such as poo)
If you want it tame (a painful process, but it makes it easier and less stressfull for the iguana in the long run), take it out of the tank once a day at first, it will struggle and claw you but don't let go of it, loosen your grip only when it calms down, hold it for a while and the put it back in the tank. it will learn that it is no point struggling and that you don't intend to hurt it. when it gets more comfortable with you touching it, take it our more often. and there you have a tame iguana (and probably no skin left on your hands)
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