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Can anyone offer some care info on Knight anoles, or some links to reliable care sheets. Some pictures would be awesome too.
Thanks for any help

Here is all the good info I could find quick. In case your new to anoles the most important thing I could think of mentioning is remember they will NOT drink standing water you have to mist them and the plants you have in with them.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Facts/FactSheets/Knightanole.cfm

http://www.whozoo.org/Intro2002/EricOwens/EKO_knightanole.htm
http://www.anapsid.org/anole.html
http://wld.fwc.state.fl.us/critters/exotics/SpeciesNumberResults.asp?SPPNO=20
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/2421/cuban.htm
http://www.petoftheday.com/archive/2003/February/20.html
http://fourwinds.net/pet/plizard1.html
http://www.anapsid.org/mainlizards.html
http://www.terra-et-mare.net/htdocs/Departments/Reptiles/knight.htm
http://www.southalley.com/album_anoles2.html
http://community.webshots.com/photo/59872929/41956988LkIiJg
http://starbulletin.com/2002/04/17/news/story5.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/animalworld/pets/kanole.html
http://centralpets.com/phpscripts/PrintFriendly.php?AnimalNumber=2655
http://exoticpets.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/2421/cuban.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/animalworld/pets/kanole.html

Thanks I checked those out before, but I can't find too much about caring for them as pets. I've had anoles (just green and browns) for a few years, do the knights require pretty much the same setup and food, etc.?

basically more food and bigger setup.

There are conflicting arguements over how big the setup needs to be. Some say 55gal min for one adult. other say since they are roughly 7x bigger than greenones so you need a 70gal min.
My guy, adult, is in a spacious 4' x 3.5' x 2' (w x h x d) that i belive translates to like 200gallons (us liquid) or like 175gallons using the UK measurement.

My guy eats superworms and crickets as a staple... since none of the petshops around me generally carry pinkies i dont give them to him. I know there has got to be atleast one that has pinkies but he seems content right now so i'm not gonna try too hard to find them.

One thing i do know... this guy loves the pothos "trees" i made (sturdy sticks screwed in to the bottom of a pot where the pothos grows around the stick). I almost NEVER see him on the ground or really anywhere too close to it. So be sure that he can get from one side of the tank to the other arboreally.
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Later,
WhisQuila

Sounds like you have a great setup for yours, do you have a picture? Are you in the UK, how did you get your Knight?

Okay, this might sound dumb - sorry, not my intention lol ...anyways, I've been reading a lot of the posts and stuff and no one has said if they are aggressive to people or not? They look so awesome, but in a way they look kinda scary lol. So what are their "personalities" like?

Mine is only about 8 inches so he is not big enough to really be that aggressive. I read in an Anole book that it wasn’t good to handle Anoles so I only take him out once a week to check him over. Honestly I think the book was referring to to common Green Anoles or all the smaller ones I believe the Knights are a much heartier animal. I have feed him by hand when I haven't seen him eat for and he has nipped me but released right away. To feed him I was intentionally trying to get him to open his mouth which meant fingers in his face ant it took a little to get him to open up.

Please also remember I have had mine for about 5 months and he was only about 4 inches when I got him. It may be different if you bought o full grown on that hadn't been handled.

I don't have any pictures of my setup. But i'm in the US so mine was bought at a reptile shop... probably a wild caught one.

Mine isn't overly agressive. He'll open his mouth and snap if he doesn't want to be handled, i only handle him for cleaning. As for if they will they jump out of the enclosure and try to attack... not likely... your a lot bigger than them and that makes you pretty scary.
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Later,
WhisQuila