Can anyone beat this ?

[chrisd]

Hi,

I was looking through some old photo's recently and realised that I have had my male viridis and my female exigua six and a half years !
The male viridis was a sub-adult about 3 years old when I purchased it while the female exigua was fully grown about the same age or older. This makes the viridis about nine and a half years old and the exigua even older than that. Can anyone beat this ?

[barb1]

Hi Chris,

Well done you, says something for your husbandry. I think you will find others have had there lizards longer but let's see who replys.

I am just going to try and get some pics up of my Eyed. The females look rather large!

Barbara

[Iowarth]

Hi Chris
That's pretty good going and does indee speak well of your husbandry. Mine include Lacerta viridis bilineata (I do not accept that bilineata/viridis are separate species!) male, died in hibernation aged 17.5 years, Timon lepidus male still going strong at 27 years, female Lacerta agilis agilis, died in hibernation aged 16.5 years, male L. agilis exigua acquired as adult and held for ten years - thus at least 13. There are others but it would be cheating to mention the Glass Lizard who I have had for 25 years and was a fully grown adult when acquired - probably at least 35 years old - but they can live to 50 so that would be cheating!! :-)