Got 2 anoles that don't eat as much as they used to. Can anyone help me make them eat again?

Question

I usually feed them small crickets every day, some small mealworms every other day, and a waxworm every so often. The tank temp on the basking side is 90 degrees and the cooler side is 80 degrees. Recently my male has been picking on my female a lot, always has territorial fights and sometimes bites her. Fortunatley i help her wounds heal with some reptile medicine. These two anole live in a 20 gallon with a firebelly and a green tree frog. Also, i give them their vitamins and their calcium.

The lighting is a sunlight lamp in the morning and the night lamp placed at 8pm. The firebelly has a small pond at the other end of the tank with a piece of plexi-glass filled with water just for him maintained at 60 degrees or so.

The anoles are fed every day.

Answer 1

Get that fire-belly out! Fire-belly frogs are toxic to other animals! They also like their home to be mostly water and not that hot.

You want to make sure your tank is extremely moist for the tree frog and the anoles.

Make sure your tree frog has plenty of moist cool places to hide. and a bowl of water he can sit in as he pleases.

Your anoles being male and female may be mating. Mating will distract them from eating. Offer them their food daily and when they are hungry they will eat.


- Weather or not the fire belly has his own water source he is toxic to the other frog and anole. Get him out of there!

Answer 2

I have an anole as well, and it didnt use to eat as much in the beginning, but now it eats fine.. since you already gave them live food, you have to continue giving them live food, because they're used to it. If they are hungry they will eat.. try putting a cricket in like tweezers and putting it in front of the anole, or let it eat from your hand if you dont mind.. it might if you do that. They only eat like every other day.. so you might be feeding it too much. If theyre green anoles when they are green they arent as stressed.. your temperatures seem alright.. youll just have to keep trying.
Theyre fighting shouldnt really effect their eating.. how often do you feed them?

Answer 3

common! carry a mealworm in one hand and seize the lizard softly squeeze the climate of his/her mouth an it would open, finally we've been given ours to open (had eating problems with many anoles on an identical time as i grew to alter into youthful) and pa indoors the meal computer virus. in the event that they spit it out, then th anole basically would not like those meal worms for regardless of reason, attempt to throw in some spiders, they're extra desirable thrilling and grant diverse nutrition.

Answer 4

well I'm not guaranteeing that this will work but a vet told me to get a tiny drop of sour cream and to let it lick it off of your finger. He said the acids in it should get the reptiles metabolism working correctly again and it should improve their appetite. I tried it on my water dragons and it worked so it should work with anoles. Good Luck!


Ps Heat rocks are terrible they burn your reptile don't get one.It seems like you are feeding them properly, um mixing species is a bad idea just for the record, most frogs give off toxins and this could be getting your anoles sick. Bad idea you should seperate them.

Answer 5

If the female is getting hurt, or is intimidated, maybe she is eating less out of fear. Try separating her and feeding them separately to see what happens.
Another thing that I have found is, that reptiles may eat less in winter even though the temperature in the habitat is the same. They may take cues from the shorter daylight hours seen through window light.

Answer 6

In the winter time they do slow down. Heat rocks help in their digestion. I used to feed mine once a week. If the male is very aggressive you might need to separate them.

Answer 7

It's winter.
Their blood has thickened and their metabolism slowed.
This is natural.

Also ...seperate them from the frogs.

Give them room to move and get some activity...a proper light/dark, day/night schedule....that is....if they're in your room and you stay up all night...you are screwing up their natural cycle with artificial light.
Cover their tank, box, terrarium...whatever at sundown.....use a towel or box or whatever...make it dark for them....get their bio clocks back in sync with mother nature.
Millions of years of genotyping and date stamping isn't going away in one generation in your lab....you'll only screw them up if you don't provide a proper habitat.
Don't worry....unless you fed them my mother in laws cooking, they will become less lethargic once spring rolls around.
......if you did feed them my mother in law's cooking......report yourself to the proper authorities and stand trial for cruelty to animals.