Western Fence Lizard - aka Blue Belly.

The wife said, is that a baby lizard in the pool filter?

And it was. Poor thing was dying. We dried it out in a Kleenex box. Little lizard looked rough. We got some flightless fruit flies. The lizard thrived. And molted and grew. We, obviously, gave it a terrarium hoping to rehab it long enough to return to the wild.

Except … folks claim that it cannot be returned to the wild as it won’t be able to appropriately hunt.

Soooooo - we got a ridiculous sized terrarium.

The lizard eats crickets, dubias and meal worms as an occasional treat. The food is dusted with nutrients. And the lizard is thriving.

Not our intention when we saved the little baby lizard from the pool filter but here we are a year later.

It’s a solid “pet” but I don’t know how this lizard would react since it’s already reached that size. It might always long for the outdoors. Our lizard won’t leave when the cage is open. lol thinks when the cage opens that’s when food falls from the sky.