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What's the thoughts on a best substrate for an anole cage? It's my first time keeping them, right now I'm using the commercially available coconut bark. They seem ok with it, but if they're not real quick to eat, the insects I'm trying to feed them escape into it. Any thoughts or suggestions? Right now I've got 2 anoles (1 male, 1 female) in a 20 gallon tank.

Thanks!

Howie

I use sterilized compost. Since I have a garden, it is easy to take compost and sterilize it a gallon at a time in the microwave for 15-20 minutes. It is absorbent and digenstable. You can also use potting soil WITHOUT Perlite or added fertilizer. The compost is free and the potting soil is generaly cheaper than the commercial substrates.

What I use is the Forest Bark Substrate. But that coconut bark will do fine. Good Luck with your Anoles.

Right now I use indoor/outdoor carpeting for my green anole(which is also housed with my 2 gray treefrogs,my crocodile gecko and my Mediterranean gecko though I have used peat moss for a few years with out a problem.
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