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Ok, guys, here's the amazing news. I was home from school, very discouraged and sad about the results of quiz in one of my classes, and as I went to check my anole's cage, A BABY HATCHLING WAS HANGING AROUND WITH HIS PARENTS!!!!! I don't BELIEVE IT!!! I didn't incubate their eggs, all I did them was just left the eggs in the plant's soil inside the cage. And here's a hatchling, who just hatched out of an unincubated egg, hanging around with his parents!! What's amazing is that his parents are just ignoring him, not chasing after to eat him or anything. However, due to my hatchling's safety, I removed him to a small cage with mini setup. I'm guessing it's a female, because this anole has a faint checkered white stripe along its back, but who knows? It's possible for males to have these also. I'm telling y'all, THIS IS SO EXCITING!!! I NEVER had reptile hatchlings before in my life until now! She seems so hardy and healthy! So here are the questions: I know what do these babies eat, but how do I feed them? They're so little that I need to scrutinize the cage until I'll find them. And what's the best, fruitless fruit flies, or pinhead crix?

Tim

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Owner of 1.2 Leopard Geckos, 3.0 Fire Belly Toads, 1.1 Bahaman Anoles, 1.0 Japanese Fire Belly Newt
and 0.0.1 Turtle

Please take the babies out so they aren't cannabalized by the parents. Well they do good w/ fruit flies as a 1st food but you'll need a smaller enclosure to make sure they can catch the flies. As for them hatching native species really don't need to be incubated in an incubator. They are used to the climate that we feel comfortable in. I don't really keep anolis as of now but when I did I usually left the eggs in the soil but I transfered them to a deli cup so the parents didn't eat the young. They lay 2 eggs 3 at most at a time possibly 4wks apart, if they do mate mutiple times. So there probaly isn't more then 2 runing around unless you had mutiple gravid females.

I already removed the hatchling. She already began to eat a bunch of fruit flies. Also, what makes it more amazing is that I live in Oregon, and it's a lot cooler here than in Florida. I'm amazed that the egg had an ability to hatch while it wasn't incubated, but in anole's cage where every humidity and temperature was roughly equal to their natural requirements.

Tim