In addition to taking care of the feeding of our Iguana pet, supporting correctly the parameters of temperature and moisture, as well as the ratios of Calcium and Phosphorus they ingest; there are other small details that pass unnoticed often and that are also very important.
Iguanas that live in captivity are animals that barely move for the terrarium and spend hours and hours of stagnation and sunbathing without worries, which means that the animal does not wear his fingernails out as it would do in his natural habitat (being raised to the trees, scratching the soil, scratching the crusts, etc).
We must worry about cutting the iguana fingernails so that they do not become enormous and dangerous claws. It is not only for the well-being of our pet but for our own benefit since a few sharp fingernails are a weapon of very useful defense for the iguana and they can go very deep on the flesh as to make us very serious wounds.
To cut the fingernails it is necessary to try to do it on the dead part of the same fingernail. In this case it is simple since the difference of color between the part where it finishes the soft textile and the part to cut away is well-known. One notice that the whitest part is where it finishes the fingernail and where from we will have to cut a few millimeters further on. No matter how good you are at doing this, the time will come when you hit a bleeder - clipping the claw too short and cutting through the blood vessel which runs though the claw.
To cut the fingernails we can use common clippers or a small scissors. We advise you to use clippers since they are quite hard of breaking. By trimming your iguana claws you are achieving two things:
- That the fingernails of your Iguana pet grow so rapidly, forming a knot between the soft part and the hard part of the same fingernail.
- That, on handling our reptile, this one will not produce to us wounds with so much facility.
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