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Hi,just wondering if any of you folks out there know an easier way of catching a lizard in the backyard for my baby ghost stripe .I've tried live,f/t brained pinky to no avail however when I gave her f/t wildcaught lizard she ate it overnight.THanks for any tips you can give me regarding this matter.

Carlo

Carlo. look for them at night, that is the easy way to catch them

Lizards in my area... New Mexico... love to go under wood I have laying around.... so I dig a hole.... put a deep bucket in it making sure the lip of the bucket is level with or below the dirt line.... then I put a peice of plywood over the top of it leaving enough room (just a hair) so they can scurry in. Wa La.
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MissHisssss

The easiest way when i catch lizards is at petsmart they have clear small bendy but stiff 89 cent thin tubes that all you have to do is string fishing line down the "pipe" and put a knews at the end and that does the trick. i have caught many lizards this way

I got this trick from William H. From the Greenpine Meuseum
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Chris
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.....I have caught thousands of lizards and the ABSOLUTE BEST way to do it is at nite time. Go outside with a flashlight and search on low plants and bushes. You will see them sleeping on the leaves! Just pluck them right off. No chasing, no nets, no buckets, just take the one you want and your done. Be sure to go after the sun has been down a few hours and don't bother on a rainy night, it must be dry otherwise they hide too well.

Well, it depends on the types of lizards that are available in your area...

Where I am in Florida, there's literally thousands of brown anoles running around our yard on a daily basis.

Whenever I need to catch any, I just use a net. When I try to use my hands, I often make them end up dropping their tails. I just get one of the large-ish aquarium nets (like 8"x6" ) from the pet store.

Creep up to 'em very slowly, drop the net over 'em, and then get hold of them through the netting. I just wrap my hand around them, mesh n' all - obviously I don't squeeze too tightly, heh, just enough so that they can't get out.

Then I just hold the net over a tub, tank, or whatever, and let my hand go, the anole just drops straight in, alive & kicking with a full tail.
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Axe
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make a noose, i use a palm fron, the twig in the leaflet. take a leaflet from a coconut palm strip the long green leaf from the little spine twig till it tapers to a thread then tie a simple slip noose . The lizards are not afraid of the lil loop being slipped over their head often they bite it thinking its a bug. born and raised in S. Fl. been catching lizard since i could walk this method works.Chris.......

noose an anole? lmao...

by the time you've gotten within 6 inches of 'em, they usually scarper... I think they'd notice me proddin' at 'em with a stick
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Axe
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what ever scarper and imao mean? , try the palm noose it works and if you read my post the lizards are transed and bite at the lil noose dangling in their face thinking its a meal. Chris