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I was thinking of breeding small anoles for begginer pets, #1 theyre cheap to buy, #2 i can get them used to handleing before they are bought to create children to pet them. If i were to breed them i would probably only breed a few times with only one pair!I would be careful not to inbreed and sell the anoles only as pets, not feeders, do any of you think this is a good or bad idea?I also respect any of your input for my further learning and commenceing the breeding of beginner lizards!Thanks!

dont do it. anoles are not good for beginners. especially not young children
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1.1.0 mali uromastyx
1.1.0 green anole
1.0.0 brown anole
0.0.1 fowlers toad
1.0.0 emperor scorpion
1.0.0 cuban knight anole
1.0.0 ribbon snake(currently escaped)
1.0.0 african clawed frog
1.0.1 green iguana
0.1.0 eastern kingsnake
0.0.3 crayfish
0.0.1 3 lined salamander

Sorry I have to agree with HerpGirl on this one. Anoles may be inexpensive in themselves, but they are FAR from a beginners lizard. I bought some as a gift for my husband (and well they ended up being my responisbility) and aside from the small price tag on the animal themselves you've got a LARGE price tag if you want to set them up so that they remain alive for any amount of time and a LOT of learning and care and time and patience. Plus these little guys aren't "hold me" lizards, it can cause serious stress for the poor critter and the majority don't tolerate it at all without a struggle (I don't know of ANY kids wanting to hold something that will bite and thrash and struggle to get away and then avoid being caught again at all costs). I know that mine are happy as long as they don't think I want to hold them. They're fine with me cleaning their terrarium once a week, but I've arranged that so I don't have to move them out of it to do so. There are so many other critters that make good pets, but none really that I can think of that make good pets for children who don't have parents willing to do most if not all of the work to keep them up because the kids sure won't.

Sorry for the rant I get off on those sometimes because I hate seeing animals mistreated from ignorance of not knowing the animals needs.

BTW I'm new here so hello everyone, I've been really enjoying reading the forums here!!
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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

Thanks for your input, i have already decided not to do anoles. I do not mind you "ranting" sillygirl i understand!

Thanks for not taking what I said the wrong way. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not against people breeding animals but only when they are doing it for some REALLY good reasons. The more research I do on the care of all my various charges the less intreasted I am in breeding them (with the exception of my tincs and that's only because they have an excellent bloodline and I can 100% guarentee that I will have homes for them) even then I am looking at a lot of time and effort to do so with not much of a "return" on my investment.

On a side note to breeding anoles though. Since I do have females in with my males (two terrariums w/ 1 male each), there is a very good chance they will breed. What would I do with them? Well I'd probably just give them (eggs) to my friend who owns a reptile store and let her hatch and sell the babies since I have NO more room for extra terrariums in my house. I don't expect money for them, just good homes .

Have a great day!
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Chantel a.k.a. sillygirl
"I came, I saw, I adopted"

2.4.0 green anoles
2.2.0 green tree frogs
0.0.3 D. tinctorius (Cobalt froglets)
0.0.1 Anerythristic 'B' (Charcoal)corn snake
2.4 Domestic house cats
1.0 Rottweiler
1.0 Husband (who loves all my critters too)
AND I play foster care for 3 homeless kittens & their mom for a few weeks for the shelter.
(and not even going to count what I raise as food for all these guys)

im probably goin to go with house geckoes for a local expo, hnd raised u no good pets that a child could pet and look at.

I would go for leopard geckos, or crested geckos.

Cresteds are very easy to breed, and dont need an incubator unlike other geckos. Plus, they dont need live prey for a diet.

M.N

Right, or a Bearded dragon... those kinds of things deal well with handling.

Anoles and house geckos really don't, as everyone has brought up. Good luck with what you decide
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