My room mate and I came home from the RI Pet Expo with two skinny little anoles that were being sold in the tiny little plastic houses. We went to the store and bought about a 2 gallon tank (for now), a heat lamp, substrate, a vine and a plant. We also picked up a dozen small crickets and some waxworms. Last night the VERY skinny male of the pair ate 5-6 crickets. He tried to eat a the worms, but he let go of them, I think cause they were too big. The female has been drinking water droplets and seems to have eaten 1 or 2 crickets overnight. Anyway, the female stays green, more so under the heat lamp, but the male keeps turning back to brown. I know this means that they are stressed, cold or sick and I know he's at least not cold. He goes up to the light, turns green and when he comes back down he's brown again! Is he probably just stressed out? He is so skinny you can see all his little ribs and we thought food might help, does he need the UVB light to digest? I think I heard that once....

Today we will be buying the UVA/UVB lamp, an undertank heater, more crickets (all 12 got eaten or crushed since yesterday) and some of that gutloading stuff. Is there anything else I can do for these guys? I'm just glad we took these two and not some 5 year old kid who would leave them in the tiny plastic thing!

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