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Alright, this is rather dumb of me, but I have a spare tank and would like to fill is with something. I think only a lizard or maybe two would fit in, I'm just having some trouble locating a good list of small species to go through. It's incredibly small, 47L x 23W x 28H cm (by the way, about how many gallons is that?). So if anyone would be so kind to name a few I could read up on, that would be well appriciated. Thank you!

i would think some babies leopard geckos or a few anoles (one male per enclosure), house geckos or small skinks would do well. your enclosure sounds like a 10Gal but not sure. best of luck!

Long tailed earless dragons from Australia stay small and are easy.
James

Could just get some monster roaches. lol

Aw! They look so pleasently round. My parents would sourly decline any bugs though.
What's the first picture of?

Thank you! I will reserch them. Actually I think my tank is 5.5g (16 x 11 x 8" and adult leopard geckos and anoles need at least 10g (although when I first bought the tank, it housed a young anole).

I also rounded down to 3 lizards I am interested in. The Western Banded gecko and Western Fence lizard are about 6" and should do fine by themselves. And the Northern Alligator Lizard (which is my first choice) can get to 10" and seems too big, but a caresheet said 5g is fine if it spends time out of its tank (which I would like).

Any thoughts on this? I would love more suggestions.

A Northern alligator lizard sounds like a fine choice but the cage is probably much too small(an adult northern alligator lizard can reach nearly 35 cenimeters including the original tail, which not many specimens of these species posess.A more more suitable cage would be a twenty gallon long aquarium. Although they can spend some time out of the cage alligator lizard are not often extremely handelable lizards and they also require a thick layer of a suitable substrate to burrow in. All Although fence lizards are active and endearing captives they too should have a much larger cage for a proper thermal gradient.

Darn, I forgot about heating. And alligator lizards seemed impossible to keep in such a small enclosure. I'm now down to small geckos.