I saw Igor for sale in an ad in the Toledo Herpetological Society's
newletter back in November 1991. The boy that was selling him
had had Igor for 1 1/2-2 years. He said Igor was nasty. I held
out my finger for Igor and he just licked it. The kid was amazed.
Poor Igor was in a 20 gallon high tank with just the UV light,
no heat lamp. He had spilled some of his water bowl, so he was
sitting on a wet astroturf liner. He had been fed a diet of iceberg
lettuce and occasionally rose petals as treat. I paid $80 for
him and all his accessories, and used most of what came with him
for my tokay geckos.
Igor's a trooper. He had his eye removed in April of 1994 due
to a bite from another iguana that kept abcessing. He's the iguana
that like's to get under the skin of every other iguana. He's
small with big attitude!
In addition to losing an eye he's been on the receiving end of
many other bites from my other iguanas, some very severe bites,
mainly because he did not see it coming. He probably could have
avoided many of his injuries had he had his vision on the one
side.
