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#2247976 Krusty View Profile	OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics You know it’s a warm winter (technically fall until today) when there are baby Anoles popping out of eggs outside in late December ( the established feral Anolis sagrei). Baby Argus are little tanks and a joy to play with: Baby Flavi’s must have absorbed all that yolk and are coming out to hunt finally: Andre the Giant of baby 4 week old Ackies. This guy can eat his clutchmates. Must have a pituitary disorder or something! LOL
12/21/11  12:25pm
#2247997 Mdf View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2247976  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics it must be nice having lizards outside as well as inside! :)
12/21/11  02:23pm
#2248002 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Mdf   In reference to Message Id: 2247997  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics It’s cool indeed. I just like that it’s warm here pretty much all year minus a few cold spells as I have to be outside several days per week to stay sane. We have 2 species of Anole, Blue-Bellied Sceloporus scrub/fence lizards, Blue-Tailed Skinks Eumeces inexpectatus, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus Racerunners pictured below in my hand, and about 5 species of nocturnal geckos that live in and around my house I have ID’d. Further south there are pockets of Iguanas and Tegus and Nile Monitors feral, but most of the natural FL species here are smaller species with lizards.
12/21/11  03:03pm
#2248008 MikesMonitors View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248002  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Justin Awesome photos Brother, love that Flavi! When I lived on Merritt Island, I had one lil gecko living under a service counter between my kitchen window and my screened pool area. It had a solid dark body and a yellow head. It was very small 2" tops. I got him to take tiny crickets from my fingers. Man I miss that house. Mike
12/21/11  04:23pm
#2248012 Krusty View Profile	Message To: MikesMonitors   In reference to Message Id: 2248008  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Thanks Mike. I thought you were moving back? LOL Feral Gecko on my front porch (Hemidactylus turcicus): The Flavi’s are awesome. Been off and on sort of breeding with them for me so far with them, but the adults are killer fun and raising babies and all that is always fun with any of them.
12/21/11  05:24pm
#2248022 Nd View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248012  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics cool pictures man. Love the little argus , I wish they stayed a little smaller. Do you have any pics of that ackie next to any of it’s clutch mates? Take it easy.
12/21/11  06:13pm
#2248077 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Nd   In reference to Message Id: 2248022  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Thanks Nick. No, I haven’t done a group shot, but it’s in order next. Yup, Argus are 3.5-5 footers. Not for everyone being that size and using every inch of a cage you offer. But they’re incredibly outgoing, forgiving and fun to work with vs some other species in that range.
12/22/11  09:20am
#2248084 Shaneluvsmonitors View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248077  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Those guys are awesome mate the little argus a proper wee stunner. Good to see the older flavi again Agreed on the argus’s as far as im concerned you cant find a better monitor to keep in captivity.
12/22/11  10:15am
#2248094 Arashikage1 View Profile	Message To: Shaneluvsmonitors   In reference to Message Id: 2248084  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Hey justin, is that last argus you pictured from the same group as the one you sent me? He/she/it is doing great so far by the way. Digging a bunch of tunnels and eating like a champ. Mike W
12/22/11  12:17pm
#2248114 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Arashikage1   In reference to Message Id: 2248094  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Yup, a sibling. Glad yours is doing well, Mike!
12/22/11  02:37pm
#2248121 Arashikage1 View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248114  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Hahaha, I think I need feed mine more. That one looks huge for a sibling! Mike W
12/22/11  03:16pm
#2248157 MikesMonitors View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248012  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Justin That’s a long story Brother. I hate you! There is not ONE GREEN THING to view around here at this time. Still none of the white stuff though. Your photos are very uplifting! Mike
12/22/11  08:36pm
#2248253 Mdf View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248002  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics are the feral niles etc numbers kept down by your toad friends you have running around there, i remember you saying you lost your nile to toads some years ago? apparently we’ve had a lizard running around at work a year or so back, a few people so it, i assume it was a common UK lizard, liked to have seen it especially as it was in a heavy industrial area!
12/23/11  04:24pm
#2248259 Mdf View Profile	Message To: MikesMonitors   In reference to Message Id: 2248157  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics something like this Mike! :)
12/23/11  05:33pm
#2248261 Varanus_odom View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248002  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Cool pictures, Krusty. Thanks for sharing. The flavi pic I could stare at for an hour. On the topic of Anoles, I saw a Knight Anole at Lovers Key park south of Ft Myers beach. I believe they are invasive though (invasive or introduced?).
12/23/11  06:18pm
#2248298 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Varanus_odom   In reference to Message Id: 2248261  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Feral is the word i’d use for Knight’s Anoles as there’s no evidence of them hurting other species nor exploding in numbers out of control. I actually have a trio plucked from Miami and sold for next to nothing in-state. Mark - I have not heard a confirmed Bufo vs Niloticus death yet. The feral Niles hug close to canals and mangroves in Cape Coral primarily from the data I’ve followed. Theyre actually very secretive here wild and baited traps are used to catch one once its been sighted. I lost a 4.5 foot Ornatus kept in a wire enclosure outside here. He was frothed at the mouth and fasciculating (involuntary twitches all over) with a small toad mangled up in spit next to the poor bloke. Those toads are everywhere on my property and you can see dozens of them with summer night rains. They crawl onto the pavement with rains for some reason. Dogs show up in veterinary ERs all the time from chewing on these damn things.
12/23/11  11:43pm
#2248320 MikesMonitors View Profile	Message To: Mdf   In reference to Message Id: 2248259  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Mark Yes, something like that. Cool Video! Mike
12/24/11  07:46am
#2248326 Mdf View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248298  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Justin are the toads in the same area as the feral niles? you’d of thought they’d eat the toads & have the same problem as your poor old Ornatus did, is it the toads are not in that area or the niles have learn’t to avoid them? I remember see a documentary on rats some years back & how they stuck to the same food sources & avoided new sources of food, can’t remember all the details, basically it gave the rat a better chance of survival. Just the nile i have would rather chose her good old reliable bulldog clip if given the choice of tongs & the bulldog clip at the same time, even if i’m shaking the mouse around to get her attention. Mike those gecko’s are cute little critters! :)
12/24/11  09:25am
#2248415 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Mdf   In reference to Message Id: 2248326  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics Mark - The only confirmed Nile population is in and around Cape Coral an hour south of me. They are rarely seen at all. There’s been media sensationalism to portray them as being widespread and multiplying but that’s not totally accurate. They seem to be confined with the ones actually breeding and surviving to a small area of subdivided homes and a bird sanctuary island next to this group of homes mainly. There’s barely ever a sighting of them, let alone what they’re eating or mysteriously dead ones found from toads. You can hunt them for 2 days and be lucky to even see one. Lots of people have tried. The usual sightings are folks who live on the estuarine canal and just spot one randomly one day. They call animal control and some cracker sets out baited traps for weeks until its caught. Then TV and newspapers report, "giant 7 foot man-eaters multiplying out of control in FL". Lol In Dade county/Miami, they have surviving large feral species also like Tegus and some Monitors too. I’m not sure if they’re breeding vs just reptile importers dumping some like the snakes (Balls/Burms issue). The Cane toads are everywhere in coastal FL. Everywhere! But we’re not seeing massive die-offs like in Eastern - Northern Australia here. We don’t have that many feral numbers here like a native population of goannas would have.
12/25/11  10:43am
#2248440 Mdf View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2248415  OT - Anoles? ... and some On-Topic Baby Pics thanks for that insight Justin,it’s nice to know what your poor reptile keepers have to put up with running around on your door step!! :) i can understand why the niles are rarely seen, after all mine can disappear in that small cage lol! this is the entrance to it’s burrow & you can just see it’s ridged tail for those keepers wondering why i posted a pic of cork bark lol!!
12/25/11  01:00pm

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