You have to provide for certain necessities to bring up iguana in the new environment as a pet. Proper shelter: First of all the iguana is to be provided a proper dwelling. Red iguana can live in water. You can arrange a 30 gallon capacity aquarium for it. Different types and shapes of enclosures can be used for iguana. The desert iguana is not and endangered species. The Breeding Season During middle of the month of March, the desert iguanas begin to get out from the long period of hibernation. They have their breeding season during April and May. The female desert iguana lays eggs, which they hatch in July and August Throughout the entire breeding season, the adult desert iguanas will have pink stomach during the breeding season on the sides. They are breeding the iguanas and at the same time selling their babies. The iguanas can be purchased cheaply these days. This really makes one to think that pet iguanas are really disposable so easily. There are advantages and disadvantages of keeping iguana nests and also breeding these reptiles. If you breed iguana, it is exciting and marvelous experience to have. Moreover, the morning atmosphere provides perfect temperature for digestion of food. You can feed them all through the day also, but take care to feed in small quantities. Take specific care not to feed iguanas heavily before they sleep. The size and growth of iguanas depends on the quantity of food fed to them. If you can place their cage nearer to some source of heat, that may be a wonderful thing. Baby iguana will be interested to get comfort and rest by staying nearer to the source of heat radiations. During the cold weather, you should especially be careful to control the temperature in their cage; otherwise they may be frozen to death. Those found abundantly in wild earlier are getting vanished. The major causes are cutting of forests. Consequently, they lose the place to live. Moreover, they fall a prey to animals and human beings also eat them in many islands. However, it is possible to take some suitable steps to avoid their extinction.