he is living in a 6 ft X 8 ft enclosure, complete with the uv and all of that, he's very healthy.
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Mine is a little over 5 foot long. I'm not sure how old he is cuz I adopted him from our local "dog pound" where someone dumped him with a bunch of puppies. I've had him almost ten years. Max has a whole room to himself where his heat lamp, heat rock, pool, food etc. is located but he has free run of the house. He always goes to his room to "potty" and is very a friendly fellow. He gets along fine with my 4 dogs and two cats.
Wow, that's a big iguana. Sure it's not a komodo dragon in disguise? :-)
According to http://www.iguana.com/, they can get up to 5'5".
i say tops about 6 feet but what kind of iguana is yours..
yes, they get huge, most people dont tell you that when you are given them. they can grow to between 5 and 6 feet. he needs a bigger cage.
as a side note, if you go downto florida you can see hundreds of iguanas people have let loose becaue they didnt think the iguana would get that big. iguanas are not indiginous to that area, but when you see so many you would think they would be. but most of those have just been let loose by previous owners. people also used to give them to zoos, but they wont take them anymore because they are so common and most already have too many.
When i worked for a reptile breeder we had a pair, m/f, that were just over 6 1/2 ft, but they were both over 10 yrs old. the enclosure they were in was 8' wide, 12' long and 6' high, they were very happy in it, as long as they could get to within 12 inches of the heat source and uv.
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