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 #2047252


Theark
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 Please help identify me!

Hi everyone. We have no experience with lizards whatsoever, but found this little creature on an imported fern (doesn’t say where it’s from) we bought from a greenhouse yesterday. We live in Canada, and have no naturally occurring lizards in our area at all - one kind of skink and a few salamanders are as close as we get! Considered a "she" by my daughter until we find out otherwise, her body is very thin, and about one inch long. Her tail is about another inch. She has V-like markings down her spine, and reddish bands almost, on her back legs.

So far, we’ve set her up in a 5.5 gallon tank with a screened lid that she can’t escape from. (She made it through the plastic slats in the terrarium we tried the first time around.) She has eaten at least one small cricket that we got from the pet store, and has also been drinking water that we misted onto the plastic leaves in her habitat. I have not put a heat lamp on as she is so small I would not want to bake her. We have set up a desk lamp near one side of the tank, though, so she does have some small heat source.

Let me stress again that I know nothing about lizards. Looking on Google, however, she would appear to have a lot of the qualities of an Anole. She even seems to change her coloring from light brown to a darker brown depending on what she is standing on. Any advice in terms of identification and care would be greatly appreciated as we are already quite attached to her and would like to keep her alive and happy if we can!

Thanks so much in advance.
07/29/09  12:23pm

 #2047263


Repfanatic
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   Message To: Theark   In reference to Message Id: 2047252


 Please help identify me!

I’d say either a brown (Bahaman) anole, or a house gecko. Just off the top of my head. Good luck finding out.
07/29/09  12:53pm

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Theark
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   Message To: Repfanatic   In reference to Message Id: 2047263


 Please help identify me!

Thank you, Repfanatic. I found a picture of a female baby brown anole and it looks identical to ours, right down to the individual markings. We’ll go on the assumption that that’s what she is for now. Thanks again!
07/29/09  01:52pm

 #2048797


Deadvenom-x
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   Message To: Theark   In reference to Message Id: 2047302


 Please help identify me!

Defintely an anole of some sort I would say. :)
07/31/09  04:17pm

 #2093053


Skink boy 2734
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   Message To: Theark   In reference to Message Id: 2047252


 Please help identify me!

i hink it is a viatnamese dwarf anole
11/07/09  04:08pm


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