Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Ok...I was upstairs watching TV and a friend of mine calls me downstairs...

We just recently put a new green anole in the cage with another green anole and a bahama anole...i'm pretty sure the old one's a male (red dewlap and what-not) and I'm thinking that the new anole (my girlfriend said it was a kissing anole..?) is a female...

ok anyway so he said that the old one was bobbing his head and doing the dewlap (phrase i made up for when he does his thing with his dewlap lol)...he also said that the old one was chasing around the new one and it looked like they were humping (lack of better terms) for a minute tahn they ran off to bask...

What do you guys think?!?!?

;D

Thanks
-S1N
-----
0.1.0 - Hypo-Golden Leopard Gecko (Skizzardt)
0.0.1 - Tremper Albino Leopard Gecko (Baybee Skiz)
0.0.2 - (Morph Unknown) Leopard Geckos (unnamed)
0.0.1 - Bearded Dragon (Phoenix)
1.0.0 - Gold Gecko (Chewonowski)
0.0.1 - White Line Gecko (unnamed)
1.0.0 - Hatian Curly Tail (Chubby)
1.0.0 - Green Anoles (Yo-Boi)
0.0.1 - House Gecko (unnamed)
0.0.1 - Bahama Anole (Home-Boi)
0.0.1 - Betta Fish (Redz)
1.1.0 - Dog (Bernie and Molly)
0.2.0 - Cats (Remy and Shylo)
0.1.0 - Fiancee (Steffanie)

BUT unless your ready to deal with very tiny little babies (they eat fruit flies and pinhead crickets) you should seperate the male from the females right away. My friend has a matting pair of bahama anoles and at last count she has some 15 babies. They lay eggs some 30 days after mating. usually 1 or 2 at a time. that is a GUESS. kingsnake has a very good caresheet on anoles.
honestly if your not into dealing with baby anoles. each by the way needing it's own 10 gallon tank....seperate the male. my friend is at her wits end on what to do with the babies she has and i keep telling her to seperate them!! but she won't. it will get very costly trying to care for babies with their own tanks, lights, etc. think about it.........

You know, in all the years I've kept anoles, I've not once had an egg hatch. I suppose it because the areas that seem suitable to the females as a place to lay eggs are never warm enough to hatch them. I've always had rather large tanks such that the vertical temp. gradient seems to prohibit eggs hatching near the bottom of the tank...which is a good thing. The only issue I have is getting the females extra calcium. Lots of eggs. No babies.

my friend has had a couple of dead eggs. i don't know how they have hatched but they have. she isn't doing anything special. she just leaves them alone. most of the time she doesn't see the eggs. she just see a baby every now and then when she mist her enclosure and they pop up from the plants. she has a hugh cage her husband built. it's like 6'hX4'wX3'deep. she has live plants on the bottom with a little pond (she has some fire belly toads in the pond) and another plant higher up on a shelf. she mists the enclosure a couple time day. not sure what type of lighting she has. i took 2 of her first babies that are going on 6 months old now. i think they are females. if not they are getting seperated. i don't want a bunch of babies. cheers

Wow. I would love to see a pic. of that enclosure.

Interesting. The bottom 1/3 of my tank is evidently to cool to hatch eggs.