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I'm brand new to the world of the Anole. I live in downtown Detroit up on the 10th floor, and somehow, I have no idea how, a tiny baby Anole appeared the other night. We captured him, and the next day I got him a temp set-up until we can convert our 45gal tank into a playground.
He's only about 2 inches long with his tail, and I was told to feed him flightless fruit flies...the problem is, the fruitflies can very easily crawl right out of the screened top! Anyone have any ideas on what else I can feed the little guy? He's eaten some of the flies, so they work great, but keeping them in the enclosure is a pain...
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and any other tips you can throw my way would be cool too, I'm brand new to the world of the Lizard!!

I have a adult female anole that recently started laying eggs. So far 2 of them have hatched and I've been told that pinheads are a good source of food for them. That's what I've been feeding mine and they seem to love them. I have a 10 gallon aquarium that I keep outside with about a inch of soil at the bottom thats stocked with adult crickets and I guess they've been reproducing and thats where I get my pinheads (baby crickets) I've never seen them sold anywhere around where I live so I don't know how hard they'd be to find in your area. I live on the South Carolina coast. I put a male (that I caught outside) in with my female and I didn't know they'd get it on that fast! LOL! 2 weeks later she was showing. I let him go back to the wild! Don't need all those babies! Plus he wasn't doing good in captivity. I captured the female when she was about 2 inches and she'd done great. Good luck!
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Italian greyhound-Cookie
Great Dane-Hooch
2 Red ear slider turtles- Mr. Piggy and Shelly
3 Anoles-Little Debbie,CJ and JJ

Thats great to hear they are being eaten, someone told me they may be too big. I believe there is a reptile only pet store near me, so I'll go check it out...

Thanks so much!!

Well, I've never seen any pin head crickets that you get from a pet store but I know the ones that I've got out of the bottom of my Cricket "aquarium are so small I thought the Anoles might not even see them but they did. Good luck, Kelly
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Italian greyhound-Cookie
Great Dane-Hooch
2 Red ear slider turtles- Mr. Piggy and Shelly
3 Anoles-Little Debbie,CJ and JJ

I'm new to anoles also. My friends adults has been having babies. I have 2 of the babies. We feed them, and I still feed mine, pinhead crickets (and slightly bigger crickets) and fruit flies. Hopefully you can find a sorce of pinheads and then gut load them before feeding them to your anoles. Mine are doing great and are like 3 inches including tail now.
When I feed the fruit flies I'll mist down the sides of the tank. This has helped to keep the flies from crawling out. Works part of the time.