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Title: Your First Lizard (Your First Series) by Jerry G. Walls, Jerry A. Walls ISBN: 0-86622-068-2 Publisher: TFH Publications Pub. Date: November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.29

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The most valuable thing a potential lizard-keeper can own
Comment: If you are considering keeping lizards in captivity, then buy this book. Don't let its small size fool you. This book is loaded with down to earth information on the essentials of caring for your pet lizard. It tells what equipment you will need to maintain your pet, how to feed and water it, how to choose a healthy lizard, lizard illnesses, and the pros and cons of each species of lizard. Walls has done a great job with this book by compressing lots of important information into an easy to read, serious book. Personally, I think it is the best book about the care of pet lizards that anyone could own.

Rating: 4
Summary: An okay buy, great for beginning lizard keepers...
Comment: If you are considering keeping lizards in captivity, then buy this book. Don't let its small size fool you. This book is loaded with down to earth information on the essentials of caring for your pet lizard. It tells what equipment you will need to maintain your pet, how to feed and water it, how to choose a healthy lizard, lizard illnesses, and the pros and cons of common species of lizards. Walls has done a great job with this book by compressing lots of important information into an easy to read, serious book. He trashes old faslehoods about how to keep and feed lizards.

Unfortunatly, Walls has left certain important details out of this book. He doesn't provide information on the importance of "gut-loading" insects for lizards. He also makes the mistake of saying that the minimum size glass tank you can use for small lizards is a twenty gallon long aquarium. Believe me: ten gallon tanks work fine for one or two small anoles or curytails or leopard geckos. Walls also doesn't mention that large sweater boxes also work well for keeping some lizards. These are cheaper and more durable than glass tanks. Finally, Walls seems to suggest buying most products for lizards at pet shops. This is largely a mistake. You will find that most of the products sold at pet stores for reptiles are over-priced. You can buy high wattage light fixtures and quality substrates at department stores for a fourth of the price you pay at pet shops.

Over all, this is not a bad book. It's an okay buy; but, I would suggest some more extensive reading if you plan to get a pet lizard or lizards.

Rating: 4
Summary: The most valuable thing a new lizard-keeper can own
Comment: If you read this book along with, Feeding Insect-Eating Lizards, you could not go wrong when keeping lizards. Let me forwarn prospective buyers of this book; however, it leaves out a few important details of lizard care. Walls goes a little overboard with cage design as well. Not all of the species mentioned in this book are as difficult as he makes them out to be, while others that he calls good choices for beginners are actually not the best. Compared to some better, more detailed books, this piece of literature is only so-so.