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[SKATE RAT]

Mr. Lee is a Water Dragon not an iguana

[Pilgrim]

Skate Rat, if you lived in Georgia instead of Brooklyn, I suspect he'd be called General Lee.

[SKATE RAT]

well he's a Chinese water Dragon so Bruce Lee came to mind ya know "Enter the Dragon"  & "be like water"

[Dave W]

I figured you named him after Arthur Lee.  

IMO the T-40 balances well. It's still heavy and I wouldn't want to do more than a 30-45 minute gig with one.

[eb2]

I have had a hankering for one of these for a while.  I played one first when I was in high school.  I wanted a P bass and nobody had them around used.  Back then they would go for $300-500 used in a shop.  Daddy's Junky Music in beautiful tax-free New Hampshire had the T-40s coming out their ears, and when I would go in looking for a Precision they would try to sell me the T-40. Gradually I came to both resent the heavy push and associate them with disappointment.  The ads and posters with the precious looking bass player from Journey didn't do much for me either.  I did think they offered a lot for the buck, and used these things were cheap, and still are when you consider everything out there.  When I pull the lever, it will have to be maple and natural like the lizard bass - a classic Jimmy Carter era bass.

[uwe]

Skate Rat, let me tell you from experience, like a T-40, that "water dragon" is gonna get heavy over time:








That black iguana is a grumpy fellow with very territorial behavior ("move or else, greeny, that is MY sun spot!"). For no particular reason I've chosen to call him Dave.  

[SKATE RAT]

oh yeah he'll get bigger.but water dragons don't get as big as iguanas do.

[uwe]

All pet shops lie.   About ultimate size. And about dietary needs. "Those iguanas will become vegetarian as adults" - like hell they did!   They never ever eat iguana pellets, but they love cat food (I feed that sparingly, but they go bonkers about it), chopped liver, crickets, snails, locusts, egg as well as fresh fruit (banana and mango) and fresh salad (as well as all decorative plants I try to grow in that terrarium!). Spoiled brats. And my "vegetarian" Dave has also been known to gobble the occasional unfortunate gekko coming to close. The survivor gekkos have wised up and avoid him now.

You're keeping that water dragon nicely warm and moist?

[SKATE RAT]

funny thing is he doesn't really like the water that much.the only time he goes in is when he's shedding. he doen't even drink much. such a weirdo. but its there when he wants it. i do give him free reign of the house though.

[uwe]

I've had that too. Desert lizards (like the spiketail monitor you see in the first pic looking inquisitively into the camera) that love water (and would never see a drop of it in real life) and ones from humid habitats that just hate it and take immediate flight when you spray just a little water on them. Of the two green iguanas, one of them would probably wish to be reborn as a fish while the other's appreciation of warm water sprayed lightly over him is only ... lukewarm!

The iguanas only drink from the ground when they are really, really dehydrated - generally they prefer licking the water off themselves when I spray it on them. And of course all that fruit and salad gives them a lot of water too.

[Pilgrim]

OK, so when does Uwe start on the EB-0 mod project with a water dragon scale finish?

[Dave W]

I'm flattered. 

[SKATE RAT]

Uwe, how did your iggy lose his tail?

Uwe's question:

What's a "hail"? You mean his claws? Whem he was younger he made a habit of getting stuck with them and rearing them off through the weight of his own body. His tail is also cut (shortened), but that was done by the pre-owner, I don't do that with my iguanas and they no longer whip me with their tails. They're pretty friendly by now - Dave of course excepted! - though they don't really enjoy being taken out of the terrarium, that stresses them. But they do like to be rubbed, caressed and stroked in the terrarium. I'm probably the nice man to them "who always peels our flaky skin".  

[Hornisse]

I think the T-40 holds the world record for most pickguard screws. 

[uwe]

I'm flattered. 

I figured as much!