I would like to try breeding feeder anoles to see if we might be interested in day geckos. No lizard experience and my reptile experience overall is fairly new. I am trying to use bio-active enclosures so my substrate choices may be a point of disagreement for some. That's not really one thing I am looking for help with since I will discuss it with the bio-active group. I can admit I did not do enough research into breeding greens. I was planning browns in the spring because they cannot be acquired now so I wasn't in a hurry but decided to go with the bigger greens and take advantage of a 2 for $10 deal. I can learn fast and correct things or I wouldn't have gotten them. There were only 3 to choose from and 2 really looked male. I'm thinking the other one is too but oh well I'll pop him in his own tank if so and I know where I can get a female that was seen breeding for a bit higher price or we might stop by a reptile specific store on the way to pick up a sumatran python. I haven't planted the tank yet. I plan to put ivy in the pot already buried in the corner where I placed some tall thinner driftwood up the tank. Then I have a huge pothos to get cuttings and divisions off of. My light is a used reptile light with bulb but I dunno if the bulb is uvb. I will check the markings and replace if necessary. There is also an infrared for basking on the bigger driftwood or edge of the slate. They are in a 29g.
Is the small one still too young to tell gender? It has been following the big one and when the bigger one was hanging on the screen it grabbed it belly to belly and hung there until they both fell and then they ended up at the top of the wood together again. There was no biting or throat display but some head bobbing afterward. The larger one seemed concerned by the location of the smaller one for awhile after that.
The smaller one seems a bit skinny. What would you start out feeding them? I only have earthworms on hand at the moment but tomorrow we are picking up waxworms which we regularly keep on hand and of course crickets are available. I've read crickets can eat on lizards if extras are left in the enclosure? One source said just to leave orange slices for them and they'll prefer that food and moisture source over lizards for any potential extras you can't remove again. 1 source said mealworms pass undigested and one said they are a good rotation option. The reptile store if we make it there (closed on new years) has hornworms and other options I wouldn't mind picking up. So out of all of that step 1; male, female, too young, healthy, too skinny?
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