Pregnant Anole!

[kribensis12]

I caought some wild anoles and gecko's in florida. I brought them back. And it turns out my femlae house gecko and female anole are pregnant. My female brown anole is huge and so is the gecko. I can see 2 eggs through the gecko's stomach. I just the female brown anole, female gecko, and 3 baby anoles in a 10g with 2 inches of bark, 1 big piece of drift wood and then a small piece. I have a flouresent bulb, but i am working on getting the money for a 8 dollar uv light. I saw that the anole had dug a hole adn was in it this morning and she came out a little bit ago and she looks even bigger than before and there is no egg in the hole. Could it be that she was practicing? Also how would i go about taking care of the eggs?

 

[grahamsokel]

I caought some wild anoles and gecko's in florida. I brought them back. And it turns out my femlae house gecko and female anole are pregnant. My female brown anole is huge and so is the gecko. I can see 2 eggs through the gecko's stomach. I just the female brown anole, female gecko, and 3 baby anoles in a 10g with 2 inches of bark, 1 big piece of drift wood and then a small piece. I have a flouresent bulb, but i am working on getting the money for a 8 dollar uv light. I saw that the anole had dug a hole adn was in it this morning and she came out a little bit ago and she looks even bigger than before and there is no egg in the hole. Could it be that she was practicing? Also how would i go about taking care of the eggs?

You will need to have quite a deep substrate in the vivarium with lots of bark and either real or plastic plants that they can dig behind to make laying sites.
You will have to remove the eggs without turning them and incubate them.
The main priority is to get them heat and UV lighting or take them back where you got them from.

 

[kribensis12]

Is there any other way to incubate them and i dont live in florida so i cant realease them

 

[Morquinn]

You probably did something illegal then... on a side note... get some organic soil and sphagnum moss (or peat moss works too) damped the soil and moss, just enough so that its not too wet, but not too dry so that it would cave in while she is laying. I would go for about 6" deep, even though you probably dont need that much depth, just to be on the safe side.. you can either try and hatch them in the enclosure (which HAS been done) if you dont have an incubator, or make your own incubator.

 

[kribensis12]

Can you tell me how to make a incubator? Also, brown anoles arent native to North America, the were brought by ship from the Carribean so i didnt do anything illeagal, i actually helped the enviroment becasue the brown anoles were reprouducing faster than the native green anoles adn were destroying the green anoles chances of stay in florida. So I cant've done anything wrong by helping get rid of a non native species. I have some vermiculate, would that be a good substrate to put the eggs in?

 

[Morquinn]

Yes Vermiculate will work, umm I would google how to make an incubator, I dont know exactly, but I have seen some pretty easy ways, usually containing just a rubbermaid container, a heat lamp and a spray bottle.

 

[kribensis12]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[grahamsokel]

in the UK you can make a incubator with a polly box a heat mat a mat stat and some garden canes to make a platform for the tubs above the heat mat

 

[kribensis12]

I live in the U.S.

 

[grahamsokel]

I live in the U.S.

Still the same in U.S.
You can get polly boxes over there because we had one in the garage when we where in Florida.you can get heat mats and mat stats so thats everything you need

 

[kribensis12]

The only prob is i am broke. I dont have a job. So i cant afford anything, but what i alrady have on hand.

 

[grahamsokel]

The only prob is i am broke. I dont have a job. So i cant afford anything, but what i alrady have on hand.

Sorry but In that case you should not have taken these lizards from the wild

 

[kribensis12]

My gecko layed eggs yesterday. She layed 2. The are round, and white. I put them in a tub, with a half a centimeter of vermiculite and sat them in my garage. It hasnt gotten any lower than 75 out in the past month, so i think they will be okay.

 

[Betta5]

My gecko layed eggs yesterday. She layed 2. The are round, and white. I put them in a tub, with a half a centimeter of vermiculite and sat them in my garage. It hasnt gotten any lower than 75 out in the past month, so i think they will be okay.

just see what happends

 

[kribensis12]

The eggs are still white, hard, and dont have any dents on them so fingers crossed.