Small Animal Care Tips

Horned Lizard, The Best Pet Lizard?



Horned lizards, or as I knew them growing up, horned toads, (Phrynosoma spp.) are incredibly neat little lizards. That said, they are not generally very good pets. Why? In a word, ants. In three words, lots of ants. But let’s take a deeper look at these amazing lizards anyway just to determine if the horned lizard is the best pet reptile for you.

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Water Bowl: 
Harvester Ants:
Formic Acid:
Crickets: 
@Isopods = 

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Thorny Devil footage ( provided by Dāv Kaufman’s Reptile Adventures (

“Florida harvester ant teamwork! (Pogonomyrmex badius)” by Bob Peterson under CC BY 2.0

“Lanius ludovicianus -Texas -USA” by Terry Ross under CC BY 2.0

“Shrike prey lizard” by Yummifruitbat under CC BY 2.5

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