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I keep 1 male and 2 female brown anoles in a 55 gallon natural terrarium. The thing is I found 3 babies running around it today! The questions are: 1) Do brown anoles eat their young like green anoles do? 2) There is plenty of food living in the terrarium, so should I leave them in the terrarium? 3) If I can't leave them in there, what would be a quick food I can use until I can get some pin-head crickets or fruit flies?

Please respond soon so I can prepare for them!

Thanks,
Erich
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1.3.0. Brown Anole
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0.0.0. Painted Turtle
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Ok, I took them out and set up their own 10 gallon terrarium. Now the only thing I need to know is: Where is a good quick place to get pin-head crickets or wingless fruit flies? My friend at the pet store told me to put a slice of banana in there and it should draw enough gnats and fruit flies to feed them for a while. Taking any and all suggestions.

Thanks,
Erich

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VERY cool! I've seen fruitflies carried at most Petcos. You might get lucky with something at better aquarium shops too.

Andy

>>VERY cool! I've seen fruitflies carried at most Petcos. You might get lucky with something at better aquarium shops too.

I couldn't find any locally, so I ordered some from:

http://www.edsflymeat.com

and I had to cover their terrarium with a finer meshed screen(when I checked on them one was looking at me from on top of the terrarium ), so the banana didn't get a chance to work.
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0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
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How long before they show up? Till they do, you could always cut up very small pieces of crickets and try feeding them with tweezers if you can get close. I've done that with small ones. Maybe even try small cut pieces of waxworms but don't let them get addicted to those.

Andy

I believe they should be here tomorrow. (I hope)

>>How long before they show up? Till they do, you could always cut up very small pieces of crickets and try feeding them with tweezers if you can get close. I've done that with small ones. Maybe even try small cut pieces of waxworms but don't let them get addicted to those.
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>>Andy
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1.3.3. Brown Anole
0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

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I found two more eggs in the parent's terrarium last night and transfered them to the baby's terrarium.
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1.3.3. Brown Anole
0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

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WOW! You better order more flies! Nice goin'!

Andy

>>WOW! You better order more flies! Nice goin'!
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>>Andy

Flies arrived yesterday! The babies are now fat and happy!
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0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

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Excellent! So they started gobbling them up right away? If there are more babies on the way, you might want to start another culture before those are gone.

Andy

>>Excellent! So they started gobbling them up right away? If there are more babies on the way, you might want to start another culture before those are gone.
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>>Andy

Oh yea, all 3 of them! Tomorrow is pay day and I plan on ordering another culture. I also plan on ordering some pin-head crickets as well.
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0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

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I found another baby in the parent's tank today! Also I have some pin-heads on the way.
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0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

www.erichrhom.com

I created an anole group on MySpace, come check it out!

http://groups.myspace.com/anoles
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0.0.0. Green Anole
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0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

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I`ve kept mixed sizes of brown anoles together with little poblems but if I was you I would find a buyer of some of your surplus don`t expect to get big money for them just see if you can find a mom and pop pet store that will let you trde them twoards food try fruit flys by putting a banna peel in the cage it should attract a few or try baby food apricot just some suggestions.

>>I`ve kept mixed sizes of brown anoles together with little poblems but if I was you I would find a buyer of some of your surplus don`t expect to get big money for them just see if you can find a mom and pop pet store that will let you trde them twoards food try fruit flys by putting a banna peel in the cage it should attract a few or try baby food apricot just some suggestions.

Thanks for the reply! Well, my adult male just recently died of old age, so I'm hoping that one of the babies (5 now) turns out to be a male. I have a few already head bobbing, so I hope that's a good sign. I ordered some fruit flies and pin head crickets off the web, and the babies are chewing them up! I have a really good relationship with my LPS, so I have an outlet for them. I also keep a saltwater reef tank and took the store some corrals and an anemone and got $85 store credit!
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0.2.4. Brown Anole
0.0.0. Green Anole
0.0.1. Fowler's Toad
0.0.1. Yellow-Bellied Slider
0.0.1. E. Painted Turtle
0.0.1. Black Rat Snake

www.erichrhom.com