thank you grannyK. hmmmm its been very cold here at nite (well to us ) 51 ish... during day gets up into the 70s. humidity,i am guessing in the 60 to 70 range. i found Howard about 3 months ago walking down the driveway in pretty bad shape. mostly black skinny as a bread knife. so much bulldozing going on we decided to keep him and fatten him up. used to find these all the time but not so much anymore, but he is in the same environment he was born in, his big cage is on a screened lanai so same temp/humidity he has lived in. we did decide to get him a basking lamp and he found it the very first morning and now every morning we find him up there on his "sundeck" i have it come on at 6 to about 10 in the morning then the winter sun is full in his cage. he ate like crazy at first now slowed down. i read everything i could or i would have fainted when i woke up to that shedding, never seen it before... his cage is 5 feet tall and about 2.5 deep and wide all the plants native here. i dont know how to rotate the pic but it is standing up and not laying down. i never took him to the vet, i dont think we can legally keep them as pets here. i have only been able to get crickets and until i found them was chasing house spiders and whatever i could find. he seems hydrated, moves around alot and finally today he started eating and had another normal looking poop. that long funny white thing was huge maybe 2 inches... could it be a parasite?? anyway thank u for responding, we are older folks and really enjoying howard and his antics....aloha
I think the heat lamp was a good addition. Glad he seems normal acting. These little creatures grab hold of our hearts and don’t let go. They have personality and are surely smarter than we give them credit for. 
