My boyfriend and I have always had reptiles, never lizards though. I have got a bunch of snakes(red tails, large python) and turtles as rescues being on a college campus with people who think they stay cute and little forever. while my boyfriend knows someone who got a Nile as an impulse buy kept him in a 10 gal. tank in a dorm and tried to handle it a couple of times got bite and decided he didn't want it any more. He wanted to just throw it outside to die cause it bit him.
My boyfriend took it and we know very little but thought it would be better with us than him. I ordered a book off amazon, but until it gets here I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. Its body is about 6 inches without including the tail, its in a 55 gal tank( i have a 6x3x2 also if he needs it soon) with sticks to climb on, 2 hides, a large water bowl he loves to lay in(he is covered completely with water but doesn't have to swim), 4 inches of soil that had nothing added to it(top soil). The basking area is 120degrees other side about 80. He has crickets covered in calcium and vitamins in his cage. It's very skinny lots of extra skin. The guy said he was force feeding it mealworms. I have handled it once a day the last 3 days and last night it didn't even try to bit.
Any help is greatly appreciated thank you

My boyfriend took it and we know very little but thought it would be better with us than him. I ordered a book off amazon, but until it gets here I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. Its body is about 6 inches without including the tail, its in a 55 gal tank( i have a 6x3x2 also if he needs it soon) with sticks to climb on, 2 hides, a large water bowl he loves to lay in(he is covered completely with water but doesn't have to swim), 4 inches of soil that had nothing added to it(top soil). The basking area is 120degrees other side about 80. He has crickets covered in calcium and vitamins in his cage. It's very skinny lots of extra skin. The guy said he was force feeding it mealworms. I have handled it once a day the last 3 days and last night it didn't even try to bit.
Any help is greatly appreciated thank you
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