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Long story-someone bought 3 anoles and decided he could not care for them; gave them to his cousin. A friend contacted my friend, iguana rescue and I got the call since I am in the same city.
The anoles are sometimes green, mostly brown. They arrived in a small critter keeper.

They are now in a 50 gallon I had empty. I have small crickets and meal worms. The one that "wouldn't eat" does drink when I spray water. They have an old UVB light and heat night.

I have raised bearded dragons and iguanas, but not anoles.

Other than ordering more UVB lights, any advice?

Seems like you're good to go. Absent the omnivorous diet...treat them like little iguanas as far as heat and lighting. Mist the plant leaves at least once, sometimes twice daily for drinking water. If you wanted to try to keep track of how much they are eating, try dish feeding (pop off the jumping legs of the crickets) and you can also put a small dish of some apricot or peach baby food in the enclosure, just to see if they'll take it (some do, some don't). Just like iggies, a multi-vitamin is good to powder on the bugs at least weekly (for my Knight Anoles, I powder slightly at every feeding). Lot of info. on caring for green and brown anoles on the web, so you shouldn't have any problems finding other stuff.

Chuck

They seem to stress easily,but having them in a decent size tank helps.Anoles liketo have there own space,and usually the males take over the best basking area so having more than one basking light is also a plus,lots of hide areas and stuff to climb on.They eat most anything thats small and moves,as long as you have good uv lighting I wouldn't go crazy with the powder suppliments.If you have males and females together keep an eye out for eggs in the damper areas of the substrate.good luck.