Oooookey dokey. These guys are incredibly cool.
So I recently came across some "Mountain Short-Horned Lizards". I havent really seen them personally before, so I am so fascinated by them. They are about 3 inches long at the moment, and I think they might both be males.
Anyway, I got into an argument with one of my coworkers because he kept telling me "that is not a mountain horned lizard" (because there is a type of lizard that is called that and also called "mountain horned
dragon" -they kinda look like water dragons) so he kept telling me it was just a "horned toad" (Texas Horned Lizard). The thing is, I do know that there is a sub-species of Horned Lizard that is called the mountain short-horned. Anyway, I know that Texas horned lizards are extremely hard to care for in captivity because they are picky eaters that pretty much only eat ants (which arent so easy to come by all the time), but the research i've done tells me that Mountain-short horned are much less picky and will eat other small insects, and I've watched these two devour small crickets like none other. So would these guys be hardier in captivity than the Texas Horned Lizard? they are eating well and are pretty active, but do spend a typical amount of time burrowed with just their head sticking up.
Just to be clear, I do not have these yet, but I was considering them. This particular sub-species maxes out at about 5 inches, so I know i dont need anything too huge to keep one or two in. What kind of enclosure would i need for them if i was to decide to get them? There doesnt seem to be many caresheets for them, and there's not a lot of information about keeping them in captivity.
this is one of them:
