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#1596728
Acatholic
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 Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Ok I now have the recommend lights, I put in a humidity gauge and temp gauge and have them all at the appropriate % according to the care sheet, now my anole still ONLY turns green at night when he is asleep and please remember in your reply he IS a green anole, I have tried and done everything the habitat is To the scientific T for the anoles’ living conditions, NOW someone please tell me why $&*%* anole is wont be green during the day!!! :(
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01/27/08 02:32pm
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#1596759
Emma0828
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Message To: Acatholic In reference to Message Id: 1596728
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
This is just a guess but do you watch it or handle it a lot.It may be uncomfortable with something watching it.Today I saw a green anole that was brown and when I caught it It continued to be brown.To my inferences it just may like to be brown.
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01/27/08 02:50pm
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#1596766
Repfanatic
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Message To: Emma0828 In reference to Message Id: 1596759
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
I had a green anole that stayed nice and green all the time until I put a brown anole in with him. I didn’t see either one of them acting threatened, but he stayed brown other than on a few occasions.
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01/27/08 02:56pm
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#1596776
Emma0828
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Message To: Repfanatic In reference to Message Id: 1596766
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Now that I think of it,if you keep the light on during the day it may turn brown to have more absorption to the light.You know the sun heats more objects with a darker color.
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01/27/08 03:01pm
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#1598089
Acatholic
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Message To: Emma0828 In reference to Message Id: 1596776
 Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Yes so that still sucks I like him green um, I mean the cage is at 83 right now why cant he go green cause it’s plenty room in the cage for him, he is the only anole I house and also no I don’t handle him AT all exception of once a week and that is to clean his cage and change the substrate. I have read on-line that it may mean he is sick but I mean he is still very active he moves around the cage all day jumping and stuff. Can it be the actual THINGS you have in the terrarium like I have 2 sticks that go diagonal across the opposing corners and I have one stick wrapped with fake green vines, he has a half cut log on the bottom he can sit on or go under (which he never does) and he has a bowl of water....this is frustrating I am new to lizards before I had parakeets those I could do lizards are a different story! Emma can you tame anole like a parakeet by say putting your hand in the cage 15 mins a day without actually touching it to get it used to your hand? Also on a side note are Anoles’ intelligent enough to drink from one of the water drippers or no?
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01/28/08 09:13am
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#1598160
Lizardman07
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Message To: Acatholic In reference to Message Id: 1598089
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Anoles can not be tamed. If you mist your tank three times a day, it will get all the water it needs.
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01/28/08 10:52am
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#1598217
Acatholic
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Message To: Lizardman07 In reference to Message Id: 1598160
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
I do, I keep the temp at 80 and the humidity at 80-85 tropical, also I bought the RepotoCal powder that I will give me 3 crickets powdered every other day, now I dont spray the crickets with that much water and if u mix the water and powder to much its like cement and the crickets wont move and then he wont eat them, can I put the powder on the crickets withOUT the water and it will stick?
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01/28/08 12:12pm
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#1598308
Lelareed4
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Message To: Acatholic In reference to Message Id: 1598217
 Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
I don’t use water, I just dust the powder on them and feed. They get enough to help them I guess. I feed crix to the water dragons, my anoles and to the beardies, and I have never spray the crix with water before I dust.
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01/28/08 01:35pm
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#1598373
Yexalen
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Message To: Lelareed4 In reference to Message Id: 1598308
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
I never use water to dust my crix. I just dust them by themselves and it covers them and sticks fine. Not so messy. The leopard geckos, anoles, and water dragons love it! (turtles not so much it makes the water kinda funky)
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01/28/08 02:42pm
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#1598517
Emma0828
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Message To: Yexalen In reference to Message Id: 1598373
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
You can’t tame an anole,they will always have the wild genetics in them.You could hold them for a little while each day and it should be easier to handle once it’s gotten use to you and your touch.And they are intelligent enough to drink the water droplets.In the wild, anoles tend to drink the droplets of dew in the morning.I can never get my anole to drink water from the droplets in the terrarium,I have to pick him up, let them rest on my hand, and form little droplets,He usually drinks it then.
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01/28/08 04:33pm
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#1600919
Acatholic
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Message To: Emma0828 In reference to Message Id: 1596776
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Ok lets go with both theories, its skin turns brown to absorb more light so does that mean my light does not give off enough UVA, just heat? Second theory if it turns brown or green because it feels like it, does that mean the ENTIRE time its awake it feels like being brown? Third sometimes when I feed him after he eats his third crickets his legs and tail turn green briefly then go back to brown. Come on folks I want my green anole back to green please
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01/29/08 09:54pm
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#1600940
Atrax27407
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Message To: Acatholic In reference to Message Id: 1600919
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Read the caresheet!!! Any light that gives off visible light also emits UVA. Your enclosure temperatures are too low. The basking area should be at least 85 degrees (90 is ideal). There should be a temperature gradient in the enclosure from about 75 on the cool side to 82 or 83 on the warm side. He is likely brown because he is trying to absorb heat and warm up. Keeping an Anole in low temperture eventually results in death.
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01/29/08 10:03pm
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#1601124
Acatholic
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Message To: Atrax27407 In reference to Message Id: 1600940
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
the highest point under the baskinglight is 85 buddy
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01/30/08 12:44am
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#1601265
Kumi
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Message To: Acatholic In reference to Message Id: 1601124
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
You said earlier it was 83.
You shouldn’t be so rude. Be thankful that people are even giving you advice.
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01/30/08 08:56am
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#1601589
Acatholic
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Message To: Kumi In reference to Message Id: 1601265
Green Anole Gone Brown Anole, Part 2
Um, I am not being rude whats the beef son? Look the point is I have done everything to the T and the anole is still "stressed" and brown all the time and I want to know what is maybe the smallest variation we might have looked over that could be causing this, or maybe another person that is having the same problem, as for being rude not at all I am quite friendly and appreciate everyones’ response I think you are interpreting into things that arent there Kumi.
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01/30/08 02:27pm
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