If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. Everything I've read about green anoles changing colors has been in regards to stress. So, imagine my surprise when one of my new ones went mental with the color changing.
I have three anoles in a 55 gal paludarium. The anole in question was green and happy while basking in the ficus trees when I added a few crickets to the setup. He jumped out of the tree and landed on the ground (which is brown plastic), turned brown and nailed a cricket. He crept up on another cricket along a porthos leaf while turning green. He nailed that one and scampered onto a piece of cork bark, turning brown again. When he was done, he went back into the tree and went back to green.
Was this just a freaky coincidence, or was he really trying to match the color of what he was standing on?
On another note, the biggest of the anoles surprised the hell out of me when he dove into the water to nail an errant cricket, swam under a cork bridge, and climbed out the other side.
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1.0.0 Common Snapping Turtle
1.0.0 Brown Anole
1.0.1 Green Anoles
0.0.4 Bloodfin Tetras
0.0.3 Green Fire Tetras
0.0.4 Pristella Tetras
0.0.6 Zebra Danios
0.1.0 Spoiled Mutt
