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I recently switched my male anole to a larger aquarium and thought this would be a good time to add a female for him to live with. So about two days afterwards I went and boughta female who was kind of a lot smaller, and I was just wondering, should I expect a lot of aggression from the male who may have already established a territory? When I watch them I don't see any, but the female doesn't move too much and I'm just wondering if shes still adjusting or if somethings going on when I'm not around. Thanks

As I said in my last post I got the female and rather than the aggression I'd expected I'm getting what seems to be the male tryin to mate with her, but shes not really havin it, I guess shes too small. Is it normal for her to hide, because I believe shes is doing this to try to get a break from the male, who's pretty frisky.

My experience (to be taken with a grain of salt)

Rarely does a female "do it" willingly but the male WILL always try to. In my experience this ALWAYS stresses out the female to the point that you will start to convince yourself she is a Bahamas Anole, and is supposed to be brown all the time.

The exception to this is you have a 20 Gallon size terrarium with plenty of space for her to run from him and hide. Anything less that 20 and she will be stressed. (Trust me) With a 20 just keep an eye on her from time to time and make sure she is not being stressed out by him. My male got the separation treatment after I found him ripping the food out of the females mouth. He was just to aggressive.

IN CLOSING:

My Suggestion: (see grain of salt) either make sure the enclosure is 20 with plenty of hiding spots so he can not find her, or separate them.

Shaon94

Thanks for the advice, she seemed to be gettin kinda stressed, she would always hide in the space between the top and the trim of the aquarium, so I put a plastic container in their so she could get some food, I think I'll let her out after her 12 cricket meal though.