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I live in the south where these are native to. They are literally everywhere. But I've only ever heard them called "an-ohl" and that's wrong?? Like, even in my zoology classes that's what we call them. I've never heard the pronunciation you used in the video.
When I was a child about 12 years old I had a beautiful green anole. Once when I was being sent to visit my grandmother for a couple weeks I brought her with me. I was holding her while I was laying down, and ended up falling asleep. I woke up rather early in the morning freaking out because she wasn't in my hands, but when I looked down at my pillow I saw her curled up in a little ball sleeping right next to me. I had her for about three years at that point. That experience convinced me of their intelligence.
I had exactly the same thing happen to me! My Green Anole Freddy was chilling on my chest while I was watching TV and I accidentally fell asleep. When I woke up in a panic about an hour later there he was still sleeping on my chest. Absolutely the best of pets. I 100% recommend them.
My baby anole is the most judgmental little prick ever. I love them. They always follow my every movment, and want to see everything that's happening in the room. (I use they because I don't know yet if they're male or female, they're too young)
When your skin is so green and your bite is quite mean...That's Anole! When you're covered in scales with detachable tail...That's Anole! If you eat lots of flies of manageable size....That's Anole! If your name is debated and so underrated....That's Anole!
I have so much respect for you saying to not buy these guys (for the general pet owner). My mom will get pissed off at me for telling her to stop buying animals she won't put any investment into so like... good job. You're doing honest work here that nobody else has the passion for
As a kid in Tennessee, a neighbor friend bought two through the mail and his mother said he couldn't keep them. My mother then told me I couldn't keep them in the house so we were forced to set up his aquarium in our small unheated storage room with an exterior door until we found a home for them. They died the first night due to frost. :(
Clint I just came back to this video to thank you so much for saving the life of a very sweet Brown Anole named Aggie! You see I did not ask for a reptile, nor was I ready for one. But Aggie decided to hitch hike back to NY on a friend's car who was vacationing in Florida, and she was in desperate need for someone to provide for her. I didn't know what I was doing, but your video helped me to save her! She's still alive and thriving 6 months later because of you. It took some time to get things right, as I was unprepared, but she went from a tiny bug container (just the first night) to a lovely large tank with love plants and plenty of climbing space which she loves. Thank you so so so much for all you do!! You're the best. Sincerely, Taylor
We have three of these lizards and they are great pets. All three of them have been rescues. They are all female and almost never fight. We have an appropriate enclosure in our kitchen and they watch us as much as we watch them. They like to cuddle with us, hang out with us and even enjoy a little electric blanket time. They are the sweetest pets but you need to handle them correctly and I thank you so much for this video.
My dad's yard always had a lot of them. Apparently my aunt actually would smuggle these green anoles from our camp a few miles away to the yard just so they'd live there. (She was 7-ish and they're here now, so no need for scolding about that). A couple hours ago, I found a dehydrated, starved, and dull juvenile anole. I'm hoping I can save him/her, because they got trapped inside my house and couldn't find food. If I let it go, I have no doubts it will die. I caught a small moth from outside and carefully fed it to the anole, and I'm about to put some water in the box I have it in currently. I have a 10g tank but I don't have access to it yet, so I'm hoping it can survive living in the box for a day or two(it has airholes and can't get out). I really hope it survives!
I spent over 300.00 for a glass enclosure and accessories for Henry Anole.A wild caught baby outside my front door in the grass.My buddy deserves the best.Dont skimp and you will be rewarded.Thanks for the great video!
A few years back my class was studying reptiles and we had 9 bins of green anoles. After the unit was over there was 7 left and we were able to take home an anole for $8 each. My parents aloud me to take one home, and a month later I found out that only I and one other classmate still had living anoles! I was surprised that they died so quickly, but we had a large tank, good heating, good humidity, and we never handled her at all. I’ve moved a few times since then and she is now going on 5 maybe 6 years old (since I got her) and has an even larger enclosure. She has been by herself and is doing well, as she got older she doesn’t get fully green often , and sometimes is a little bit patchy in coloration. Otherwise she seems very healthy and happy and even I’m glad that my family could bring her home rather then another classmate who also wanted her (we got her first, just by a little though) Maybe they would be able to care for her, but you never know
Konga Famous It’s been a year and now she’s completely green everyday. I have her in a large 30-ish gallon fish tank with tons of live plants and she’s doing great.
Konga Famous I don’t believe brown stands for just stress if you have mostly brownish objects in the enclosure it will naturally turn brown or if they are sun basking they turn brown in order to absorb more heat. I had one that lived around 5 years and his name was leaf miss him a lot tho
They love hanging out in the plants on my patio here in North Texas. We caught them all the time as kids in Houston. I still catch them and leopard geckos when slip into our sunroom so I return them to the patio to be pest control. They are so fun to watch doing their courtship displays or having turf wars over their favorite plants.
Thanks for this! Nobody addresses these little cheap lizards, but they're so cool and it's difficult to find quality care information. I had a bunch of these guys growing up and you're absolutely right. If you set up a big, bioactive display tank and get a few females and one male, you'll have endless entertainment. They're so active, they have big expressive personalities, and those males are always trying to impress.
latieplolo rock on! when I finally have a place of my own back in the US, that’s my plan! This was my first pet lizard, and I’d love to have a breeding group in the future.
So cool!! I heard they are like the carnival goldfish but reptiles and that makes me so sad. Every animal should be well cared for. After my sweet pal Patwin the cornsnake died I am now looking to set up my big terra (50x24x35) bioactive for a little group of anoles and am so excited! Just difficult to find reliable information but Clint helps out a lot!
people who sell these at pet stores should really tell you what is needed to take care of these. not hey here's a plastic carry thing and a electric heat rock put these stones in the bottome and a peice of fake grass carpet thing for them to poop on. and then you add a small water bowl some grass for the bugs you put in and a stick or two and a small peice of log for them to hide under. they defintly dont tell you to not grab them
We bought a Green Anole at the New York Renaissance Faire, and you seriously need to reach out to them, because the advice they gave you was basically 180 degrees opposite of what you gave. Mine is still alive after almost a year (his name is Lorus), but the first thing I did when I got him home was take him to the Vet who told me I needed a bigger enclosure, the UVa and UVb lamps, better food, more stimulation, etc., and I went to the pet store and got all of that. My anole loves to come to the front of his enclosure, and tease our cats, because they are smart lizards, and he has figured out he is safe inside his enclosure, so he will often climb the wall to his thermometer and just tease the cats. It is amazing to watch as he jumps from thermometer to leaf to front to the climbing wall in the back. If the cats have left him alone for more than about three hours, he comes to the front glass to look for them. I recommend them if you are willing to pay the costs. They are awesome lizards!
That's actually good. The cats provide some natural stimulation. Just like humans with horror movies sometimes it's good to get scared. It provides a bit of realism without compromising safety.
Tbh the problem with common goldfish isn't really the fish's individual care, people don't k ow how to care for fish in general. I have on that I won from a carnival 2 weeks ago and he is as happy as can be in his planted aquarium.
My grandson went to a carnival in July this year with his friend and his friend's parents. They allowed the boys to play a game that won these. I took it right away and did a bioactive set up for her. I now have her in a temp cage made from a 64 quart bin. In the bio, she had too many places to hide that I couldn't get to or find. She has a habit of staying hidden for 24-48 hours some days. The bio was set up in a reptibreeze 16x16x30. I built a coroplast box for the outside so it could be carried and a 8" base for the inside with a black grow sack in it. Everything came from Josh's frogs and it's great, no cleaning but trying to find her is a needle in a hay stack. She has never eaten much and she is losing weight, I haven't seen her eat for a while. Lots of plants, leaf litter, everything. Now that she is in the bin, I can pick her up and place her in a feed box( before crickets were let loose, I kept food in it for them). She has refused dusted crickets, waxworms( just got today to fatten her up)calci worms or the normal meal worms kept in a dish that also has food for them. I have multi sizes from 1/2 to thin giant mealworms about 1" plus, some fat, some thin. Both the mealworms and calci worms were seeded into the substrate. She ignored both the flies and the beetles. I just got some reptiboost to give her, if she will take it. Her bulbs are 60 watt basking ( 92-102) and she had a reptisun 5.0. It needed replaced so I also get her a 10.0 today. I don't know what I am doing wrong. The friend's anole has already died sadly. Help!
I tend to hold my green anoles super often so they have grown to enjoy it, and they gimme lil licks when I hold them, they also let me pet them, overall their really great pets
Word of caution: Just be gentle because their skin is so soft you could accidentally pull off a tail or leg and not realize it until too late. We have them in our pool screen enclosure. I sometimes remove them to the outside when there are two trying to be friendly but one is inside and one is out side. They run trying to get away but I am gentle so I don't squash or break them. Their babies I call Tiny. Boy are they little. Only an inch long counting the tail. Cute!
They are native to Florida, unlike the more common brown ones... the Cuban Brown Anole, and they are threatened now because of the invasion into their territory by them. They should never be sold or taken in as pets!!!!!
Love watching this while chilling with my little guy! I happen to have a big Ole male who is the sweetest thing ever. He loves being handled and even loves going places with me, I even made him a tiny harness lol. Also I did want to point out that the anole in the video is 100% a male and not a female, in the shots where he is on the glass u can see the 2 enlarged scales under his flap. Fabio (my green anole) says hi to you all!!!
Awh, my first reptile was a Green Anole I got at a flea market lol. I was 13, the man sold him to me said he was already a year old. He was in a critter keeper, and told me he could live his entire life in it! And if I'm being honest, his first week was in there, until I did the research and showed my mom they needed heat lamps, UVB, etc. My mom is great, she agreed with me and we went to the pet store and upgraded his home! He passed away a month after I turned 19, making him 7. The vet frequently told me she was impressed he was as old as he was, as most she sees die before they turn 3.
When someone says "lizard" I think of the green anole, as I grew up with them around everywhere. Love them. I also love when you say "anol-e" it sounds awesome and fun to say :)
I find it offensive that you don't have more subs. I'm a lifelong reptile keeper and find your videos incredibly informative and entertaining. I enjoy sharing your videos with my children.
Thank you. We've never had a video go viral. I think we suffer from limited exposure. I guess we need more clickbait. A huge percentage of our views come from our existing subscribers. We're trying to make our videos more appealing to outside audiences without sacrificing quality, content, or stressing animals. I don't see us going the clickbait path, so slow and steady it is. Maybe someday we'll get to a point where you don't need to be offended. We really appreciate your support.
@@ClintsReptiles I just meant that you and the channel are "stinkin rad" and wish you had more exposure. You are so much better than the clickbait channels, and I think you and your team deserve more recognition for the great content you put out, and your contagious, genuine enthusiasm.
Love watching these guys and the 5 lined skinks basking and climbing in the garden, and I think I prefer keeping them there and not in a cage where they can be happy and help me with some pest control.
I live in South Carolina and have the pleasure of having a large population of these lizards around my house. I love to watch them outside and that's where they'll stay
We have tons of them here in North Texas .They didn't exist here at all (nor did geckos) when I was a herp-loving kid several decades ago, but the flip-side of that is that many lizards found here back then, like horned toads, six-lined race runners, and even fence swifts, are seldom seen here anymore. I do love to watch the anoles out in the garden and around the deck. Why someone would go to the trouble and expense to keep them indoors in an area like this mystifies me. Somehow nature is always more rewarding when it's outdoors where it's supposed to be.
I just want to say the lighting on your more recent videos is much better and it's awesome to see a channel grow in terms of presentation as much as content. Good job
Ok, true story. When I was six years old my dad had caught a green anole that was climbing on the side of his business ( not going to give the name of his his company for anonymity reasons) and brought it home to me as a pet. No one in my family knew a thing about keeping lizards. So we basically just got an aquarium with a regular light, and some food and water bowls and set it up for the anole. That lizard lived with us for a year before we decided to let it go. I think the reason was that he kept crawling onto the top of the aquarium and burned his back by getting too close to the light. After letting him go, at our house, he must have found a few girlfriends because there were green anoles everywhere. I remember going outside and seeing the bushes around my house being covered with them. I remember seeing that pet anole we released (that burn mark made him easy to tell apart) like maybe 5 or 6 times after that but he disappeared eventually. I feel bad for him now because of how I never knew how to care for him when I was very young, but it seems he had a good life after we released him out onto our property.
I have an anole that my godmother found in her house and then gave to me, she’s a great pet and actually loves handling and gives me licks, I also let her climb on me rather then grab them because that just scares them
I’m glad you made a video spotlighting how amazing these guys are, I have a green anole myself who I saved from a neighbors cat, normally I let them go but she was actually blind in both eyes so I had to open her mouth and hand feed her crickets for like 3 months straight until she finally opened her eyes. She’s living in a bioactive screen 16x16x30 cage now and she’s honestly the friendliest reptile I own, she walks right up to me and will just chill on me while I’m working around the reptile room, she even lets me gently pet her head and she’ll just lay there and close her eyes, green anoles are amazing
There is one that bask on my front porch, it’s chilly today in NC. She is so chill, I saw her yesterday and she just looked at me with so much interest and intelligent. She has a little bit of stuck shed on her back, but other than that just the chillest.
I appreciate you stressing the importance of the correct equipment for these beauties! One out of ten people watching may take your words to heart and do just what you’ve said. It will be a great improvement over how they’re kept now. Having considered one, and deciding against because of all the necessary things they need, I’m glad someone with a platform is speaking out. Just wish more reptile folks would do the same. On another note 🎶, just loving the “Blinking is for mortals” tee I got! So many people will comment on it, then, I get a chance to plug your channel! Yay! Blessings!
Thank you so much! That is probably my favorite of our shirts that I own. I love them all, but I wear that one the most. Also thank you for the review of our video. I hope this video does a lot to help inform potential buyers in the future. I'd love to save a few lizards and their uninformed keepers.
I want to get an anole but I want to wait until I am out of school and working so I can invest in the required equipment and possible vet trips. I read that anoles can develop a mouth infection if not cared for properly and I can't spend hundreds of dollars on a vet trip right now. My last pet was a bit of an impulse buy and it just wasn't working out and I had to return him to the pet store😔
Here in southern Mississippi we have these all over in the wild. I’ve caught and played with these cute guys my whole life, and only recently have I started to really get how special they are. I was never cruel to them, but I am willing to bet I hurt a few just by being too rough as a child. Now occasionally I’ll rescue some from my cat and bring them inside to be sure they’re ok. I’m teaching my daughter to be gentle and respectful, and a few have even chosen to climb on her and just hang out. They really are exceptional little guys and I’m so glad to have them in my yard!
I’m glad you posted this. I had considered getting one of these lil guys, but I don’t think I would be able to realistically provide the care that would make them thrive. Thanks again Clint! Keep the great content going guys!
I have had both Green and Brown Anoles for the past 4 years and they are absolutely amazing pets! They are super fun to watch and they have amazing personalities! Would recommend them to anyone looking for a pet that is easy to care for and a cheap alternative to other reptiles !!!
Voltix.. I wish he would do basilisk video too, curious what he would say. Anyway I have 3 green basilisks-- All 100% tame, and leash trained, they will sit on my shoulder while going for a walk. I can give you lots basilisk advise. For my many basilisk videos on youtube search- daniel r green basilisk
I have these lil guys running around the outside of my house and backyard! I love seeing their lil dewlap displays and the way they bob their lil heads! such cuties
SJ L thank you, but i haven’t been in a mammal specific one in years I only go to reptile stores these days. Guess they just aren’t so common in my neck of the woods
Reptiles may be cold blooded, but they sure do warm my heart so much Sadly Brazil has very harsh regulations with exotic animals and you can only [legally] get animals (that's not a dog or a cat) from government approved places (that are very few and a lot more expensive)
I will be taking in a surrendered green anole some time within the next two weeks. The owner has told me that this one is aggressive, bites and hates being touched. Watching your video absolutely helps me in knowing how to handle him, if I do so, and learning how to properly care for this lizard is fantastic. Thank you for making this video to teach people!
Anoles were the first pet reptile I owned as a kid. My parents brought one home from Florida that they purchased at a gift shop. This started my love for reptile keeping! Also living in Georgia I see these all the time they are everywhere here.
This is one of the lizards I’ve been interested in since middle school, one of the science teachers had a colony of them and it was always super fascinating
I lived in Florida and right outside my office window there was a cool looking plant that was home to a pair of these. I would watch them hunt, breed, fight off rivals(which was so cool) So much fun to watch. It was like my pets that lived outside lol. They lived in the plant for at least three years
Green anoles were my introduction to reptile keeping. I miss my little guys they were so fun! I currently have a veiled chameleon. If people start breeding green anoles more regularly, a suggestion I have is to separate the babies from the adults after hatching because the adults do cannibalize them.
Love green anoles! My daughter has had one or two at a time ever since she was little and she is 16 now. We've really enjoyed raising these little guys over the years. I used to get a little embarrassed at the pet shop when they asked what we were feeding because a lot of people use these as feeders but now we are pretty proud to say we have green anoles! ❤
Im really glad i saw this video today! My husband was thinking about a display tank for his office where he spends much of his time and was thinking fish... but having kept fish i know the filter will drive him crazy! Im thinking i may mention an anole and we might look into it as an option, especially for a beautiful planted bio active for him to enjoy. It might be a really nice addition to our reptile crew that i honestly would have over looked because they are really so common that i dont even think of them! Now time for more research! Thanks for planting the thought :)
I saw a green anole at a pet store yesterday and I was really curious about why it costed 15€ while all the other reptiles were more than 100€. Very interesting video, I love the way you talk about them, it shows how passionate you are about reptiles and it's adorable!!! Greetings from Spain ❤️
As a keeper/breeder of Green Anoles, I recommend Anoles to people getting into the hobby as a great starter pet. I clicked instantly when I saw this, I loved it man, keep up the good work!
Found one of these in a potting soil bag from walmart in Indiana on Halloween having sat on my porch in 40 degrees for weeks. Hatchling. I'm from Florida so I knew it was a baby brown anole. It was a miracle it was alive so I set him up as good as I could and plan to take him home to Florida when I visit in January.
Hey, you are an extraordinary man, I have a special respect for the work you make. I'm sure there are so many people who are much better educated because of you and the team dealing with this channel. Congratulations ! I can hardly wait for the next episode to appear.
Thank you so much. I definitely think this channel has a clear mission, and it is a mission I'm very excited about. Thank you so much for your kind words.
I love anoles so much. I just got another one as a rescue. It is incredibly Emaciated and lethargic. She is so fragile so when I have to handle her to get her to eat or clean her I’m terrified I’m gonna hurt her. Thankfully she seems to trust me I bit cuz my hand means food. She’s making a touch of improvement. It’s very slow tho.
I don't think I'd ever want to own of these lizards as a pet when I can get a similar experience from just simply training the wild ones in my yard to accept food. They have a certain charm to them that their antsy brown cousins lack.
@@AlbinoAxolotlIt's a pretty easy process, too. I start by approaching slowly then holding a mealworm around a corner so they can see the worm, but not my hand, which makes more likely to approach. Once you get them to take something once, they'll rather quickly start to associate humans with food and eventually start running over when they see you, though this can potentially be dangerous for them if they're located in a place where they might encounter mischief-makers, so I avoid feeding the ones along the edges of the property. I've found that the gold dust day geckos are by far the most open and persistent about hand-feeding out of the three lizards in my yard, to the point where they'll start following me around the yard until they get their treats. One even was bold enough to infiltrate the house through a hole in the screen and find me at the computer desk (Though he quickly learned to not do this after having to be caught and relocated one too many times).
I keep trying that with the 5 line and broad headed skinks in my yard...no luck. So I set up an enclosure in the house and put one in there. Now I can hand feed a cool little lizard for a few months and put him back outside healthy later.
These things are all over the place in Florida where I live. Every once in a while I will go to Petsmart and get a few to put in my screened in pool area. (I have a small garden out there where I put them) They get out... but since they are endemic it doesn't really matter. I think there are about 30 in and around my pool area at this point... I've only bought about a dozen, the rest come in from outside the screen to eat the crickets I put out. I also have an old 20 gallon tank in my room that I'll put some in from time to time just to watch. It's a hand me down from when my parents gave me a baby iguana. (the iguana ended up in a 5x5x6 ft cage within a year by the way) I have so many light fixtures and other supplies around from old terrariums that its easy to throw something together for a lizard or frog or insect that catches my eye in the yard so that I can watch it for a day or 2.
I visited Florida a while back and there were a lot of these brown lizards around that looked something like these. I later learned that they were Cuban anoles...an invasive species that had chased the native anoles up into the trees.
@@MickPosch Yup, those brown ones are all over the place, especially in the southern half of the state. The greens are still around, just not as many and they stay up higher now.
These guys were the second lizard i ever owned, i was about 9. Their names were Chestnut and Lulu, me and my parents listened to the pet stores advice. Unfortunately they didn't tell us that these guys needed uvb lighting among other things and they both died of metabolic bone disease within a year before we could even get them to a vet(my parents didn't even WANT to take them). Do your reasearch and make sure your taking proper care of your new scaly friend 💔
I wish I'd seen this video sooner! Didn't ever know you had one on green anoles. :) When I was in fourth grade my class got six of these lizards as an educational move... I've always been disappointed with the school about those lizards once I knew more about them, but after this video I'm reaching levels of disgust. They called them "chameleons" to start with, something the school should be ashamed of, and while they had appropriately sized crickets, good humidity and good soil with planted grass, the critter keepers we had them in weren't even a fraction of what they needed in terms of space, not to mention being devoid of climbables. Of course, they didn't have heat or uv. We also had mealworms that year, that we raised into darkling beetles. That was really great; they really should have just stuck with the bugs. They're surprisingly good with handling when they're used to you! :) One of my favorite bugs to this day.
I have a green anole that my brother got when he had a project at school to take care and learn about anoles. It has been 5 years and proud to say he's still alive. This comment is so random....
Love all your videos but really appreciative of this one. I don't think these would have been on my radar otherwise. I'm more interested in the build of my paladarium than having some specific critter. But because of that the anole actually fits my needs really well. I was planning to build the enclosure with or without the lizard. Really looking forward to getting one.
Love the videos, Clint! I'm going to visit family in the Provo area and I told my wife that we need to go look around the Animal Ark in Orem while we're there. I'm excited to see what it's like haha
Ever since I saw this video, I am dedicated to make the best green anole enclosure possible. I am sparing no expense. And the dollars are mounting, Thank you for the inspiration and instruction Clint!
I grew up in florida with them everywhere.. sometimes we would would sit in the driveway and just stare at them sunbathe becasuse they were just so cool, can’t wait to get some as a throwback to my childhood
clint you are spot on. i live in north carolina and they are everywhere. I go outside and pick them up every day in my backyard. i can find up to ten in a minute. they love basking in the sun. they are a bit skittish, but once you pick them up they never want to leave you (and yes probably because my skin is so warm). unfortunately, my dog likes to chase them. she puts them in her mouth and nibbles, but never eats them. they usually drop their tail and will play dead, but sometimes they do die. ive never been able to feed them. i love that they eat insects...i hate spiders and house centipedes. i love them!
Speaking of tanks and expense... about 3 months ago I was given a few green anoles. I put them in an old 15 gallon tank with a hand-me-down light set... they did great, but I felt bad. Fast forward to today when I just finished _Chateaule anole_ ... a beautiful 48x12x18 fully planted tank with several brand new heat and uv lights and a waterfall ... ... which ended up costing me about $250 in total... for a couple of _free_ lizards -_- It looks great in my living room though.
I used to catch these little dudes all the time when I was a kid. They're so easy to tame! I remember catching one and after handling it for a few minutes, it was just cool with being on me and eventually crawled up my arm to my shoulder where it then hung out at for hours while I was outside playing. It was no doubt an ideal basking spot since it was in the middle of the Summer in North Carolina and my shoulder had a lot of direct exposure to sunlight.
Love Green Anoles! However the little one you had there was a male. :) He has two larger postanal scales (which you can see them pretty clearly in the shots of his underside) which is only on male green anoles. He's adorable nonetheless and they make fun pets!
After watching this video, I've got to say that you are hands down The best informational reptile source on the internet. I have another who is a no BS breeder who won my heart by addressing terrible trending misinformation- so it was hard for me to come to this final conclusion about your channel, but listening to you repeat the facts over and over and over I was won. The fact that humans treat animals, insects, Beings as disposable accessories crushes my soul to even Think about, but listening to the important message that well meaning people [or the latter type] need to hear in relation to these gorgeous yet incredibly fragile cheap little guys was bittersweet for me. I was so glad to hear this important information driven home but learning anew about yet another creature on the market suffering makes me want to run far away with my old man dragon rolled up in a fluffy burrito blanket tucked under my arm, calling what I have learned so far good enough. That being said, I can 100% relate to your passion for these gorgeous animals and the potential for wondrous worlds of beauty their habitats hold in store. It would combine two of my favorite aspects of living:plants and animals. Thank you for taking the time to answer the desperate demand for straight forward factual information about reptiles and their absolute unwavering needs. My landlord just dumped a juvenile dragon on me in the middle of a financial crisis. Meanwhile my first unexpected geriatric disabled rescue is doped up and entrapped in partial brumation, essentially giving me a break-this high demand new guy has shown me the draw for more ornamental reptiles who most certainly will not develop personality issues due to lack of physical interaction. His 20 gallon is half what he needs and I've just rigged up a tube UVB to my old fish tank hood light to replace the crap that came with what I'm assuming was a box set. I'm just trying to get settled into work so that I have time to field questions when I put him up for adoption in a rescue group I joined and have been monitoring for a while now. Seeing this video only reaffirms my need for finding someone more capable than me. It's the fact that many reptiles are completely silent that poses such a danger because they don't express their needs in ways that many know how to recognize. Yet the relationship that I have with my old guy dragon is so impactful that I can't imagine life without him. I sure adore this little one but I've got to give someone else a chance to form that same kind of bond I know I am incapable of taking the time to invest in. No shame in admitting it's too much. Plenty of shame in trading ego for an animal's life. Thank you again for the wonderful work you are doing!
The Darkling Beetle can and should replace all 'trinket" or "desk" pets like Betas, goldfish, hamsters etc. They are THE most unflappable beings on the planet and they too are also awesome to watch in an endless array of habitat options in which they will thrive and reproduce effortlessly. I have 2 females and a male in an old 1950's 5 gallon Metachrome fish tank that was once a terrarium, and had 3 more of the same in a medium jar. I had to upturn the entire jar environment into my sink because the superworms grew too big for the dirt level and now they've been going about life in the stacked up pieces of bark I took out and placed in the corner of the sink about 2 hours, ago while I look for more soil for their upgrade to my other slate bottom tank. Honestly, just watching them go about life for under 30 seconds lowers my blood pressure. Not a care in the world, no fears-just adapting to the porcelain lifestyle as if it were the most natural thing ever. They're therapy pets! But most importantly they're unflappably adaptable-which is never a reptile claim. People should have to pass a feeder care test before moving on to anything more difficult.
I love them! I used to keep them as pets in a 20 gallon tall tank planted with plants in Eco Earth. They even laid eggs and had babies for me. They have awesome personalities and are so beautiful! People just don’t want to lay out the money to keep them properly.
I loved this video so much! I grew up catching Carolina anoles in my grandma's hydrangea bed, so they are a really special part of my childhood. As a matter of fact, I even have a tattoo of one to remind me of home. Thanks for making this video! Side note: I always used to call them "anole-ees", and later got corrected that there isn't a long "e" sound on the end. Maybe both are acceptable?
I live in South Carolina and normally during the summer I have a few of them that live in my “Carolina” room which is my bedroom at the moment as it’s easier for me to let my dogs in and out. So, I don’t kill them or try to let them out as they’ll eat any bugs/spiders in the room which is nice, they climb my curtains and they are fun to watch. I even have photos of them matting which is an odd thing to see. This was great to watch!! Thanks so much for your channel as I’ve learned so much from you!!
I live in Florida and I used to go outside and feed all of the anoles in my yard mealworms. I’d go into our patio area with our koi pond and drop down about 20 mealworms and just watch atleast 50 lizards every time race to the worms and eat them. It was mostly Cuban anoles but there were problably 5-10 green anoles
A lot of reptiles get the calcium needed in the wild from licking rocks such as limestone, and getting those vitamins from the UVB rays that the sun provides! Since a lot of pet reptiles don't have limestone in their enclosure and most enclosures are kept inside, they need to have a calcium supplement provided or else they could develop metabolic bone disease, which is when their bones don't grow like they are supposed to, and they end up becoming deformed. Hope this helps!
When crickets are raised in captivity, they do not always get a varied diet, so they are less nutritious to the lizard. Some people also "gut load" their crickets by getting them to eat certain foods so they have that nutrition in their systems when they get eaten
I was looking into a green anole for a new small reptile and came to your video for some basic information (generally my go-to for a new reptile). This video helped me realize that Anoles aren't what I'm looking for at the moment (I'm wanting to add a small single reptile for a small setup with easy care) and I appreciate how informative and honest you are about this lizard's challenges! I expected the anole to be a good choice because they're such a small and inexpensive lizard, but now I'm going to research elsewhere for something more appropriate.
I had these growing up. Didnt try holding, we all know they crawl quickly and are fragile sensitive creatures. It was fun not buying crickets from the petstore but catching grasshoppers in the backyard pond we had between jars and jar lids. Watching them hunt is prolific
Honestly I live in North Carolina and I didn’t know these were popular in the pet trade until I got into reptiles 😅 my parents used to joke That if I wanted a lizard I could go get one out of the yard 😂
Love this. Your expressions and pronunciations give me major David Tennant vibes btw 😆. Years ago I was introduced the hard way to just how much goes into caring for a reptile. I got a beautiful bearded dragon. Much more costly than the anoles on their own, but he needed the same type of care that the anoles do pretty much. I wasn't lazy, I figured it out over time. He had a very wide open tank, lots of nooks and crannies, heat and uvs, and never missed a meal of crickets, kale, or a favorite of his, banana. Honestly the most consistently draining of all this was those friggin heat lamps. Dear god I couldn't ever find any that lasted over a month and it basically became an additional monthly bill! Lol He was a happy dragon though. Miss him much. Loved just chillin on the couch with him on my shoulder for a little bit.
A bully killed my Lizzie when I was a child and I saw it dead and I have never stopped loving them but I can never look at them the same and I can never get one again...
Oh my gosh! I cought one as a kid who's name was lizzie but once she dropped her tail I was so scared I was going to kill her that I decided to put her back in the wild! Lol
Thank you for making this video. Now I can finally stop my little cousin from killing these little guys. They're so beautiful and deserve to live a full life. Truly the gem of lizards
You weren't wrong when you said these are basically free lizards. I just found a baby brown Anole in my home yesterday! He's so small. Only 2/3rds the size of my index finger including the tail! Weirdest part is... I live in upstate NY!!! I'm thinking he was a stow away in plants I bought from Lowe's 2 months ago. Well long story short, this adorable FREE baby lizard just ran my pockets for $250 to get him the most basic setup that he/she will be able to grow into. But I'm worst case scenario as I've never owned any type of reptile so I had to buy everything at the drop of a hat. 100% would do it again! He/she's eating and already picked out their favorite basking spot high up a branch a couple inches below the 40w light.
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Another awesome video! Will you be doing sailfin dragon in the future?
Don't forget about the Cuban knight anole same as the green anole but super sized
The cost of geckos is getting outrageous. I'm still looking for an affordable gargoyle gecko.
I live in the south where these are native to. They are literally everywhere. But I've only ever heard them called "an-ohl" and that's wrong?? Like, even in my zoology classes that's what we call them. I've never heard the pronunciation you used in the video.
i just got a crested gecko at repticon today! i got him because of your videos so thank you
When I was a child about 12 years old I had a beautiful green anole. Once when I was being sent to visit my grandmother for a couple weeks I brought her with me. I was holding her while I was laying down, and ended up falling asleep. I woke up rather early in the morning freaking out because she wasn't in my hands, but when I looked down at my pillow I saw her curled up in a little ball sleeping right next to me. I had her for about three years at that point. That experience convinced me of their intelligence.
I had exactly the same thing happen to me! My Green Anole Freddy was chilling on my chest while I was watching TV and I accidentally fell asleep. When I woke up in a panic about an hour later there he was still sleeping on my chest. Absolutely the best of pets. I 100% recommend them.
My baby anole is the most judgmental little prick ever. I love them. They always follow my every movment, and want to see everything that's happening in the room. (I use they because I don't know yet if they're male or female, they're too young)
my anole ran away outside and came back a week later, my whole family was surprised.
OMG :-)))
@@lego_stuff_i_guess75 Where do you live? Wild anoles are native to Florida.
When your skin is so green and your bite is quite mean...That's Anole!
When you're covered in scales with detachable tail...That's Anole!
If you eat lots of flies of manageable size....That's Anole!
If your name is debated and so underrated....That's Anole!
LOL
good stuff lol
Go to your enclosure.
PLAY RUSSIAN ROLLETE WITH ME
Lmao 🤣
I have so much respect for you saying to not buy these guys (for the general pet owner). My mom will get pissed off at me for telling her to stop buying animals she won't put any investment into so like... good job. You're doing honest work here that nobody else has the passion for
Micah Hobson wow it’s a rare occasion when the child as to be the adult.
@@Wickedreptiles more common than many think
As a kid in Tennessee, a neighbor friend bought two through the mail and his mother said he couldn't keep them. My mother then told me I couldn't keep them in the house so we were forced to set up his aquarium in our small unheated storage room with an exterior door until we found a home for them. They died the first night due to frost. :(
@@storbokki371 Man...poor reptiles don't have vocal cords to scream at how often they are horribly tortured by neglect
when i was getting my leopard gecko my mom said just catch one outside and im like bruh we live in louisiana no leopard gecko would live here
Clint I just came back to this video to thank you so much for saving the life of a very sweet Brown Anole named Aggie! You see I did not ask for a reptile, nor was I ready for one. But Aggie decided to hitch hike back to NY on a friend's car who was vacationing in Florida, and she was in desperate need for someone to provide for her. I didn't know what I was doing, but your video helped me to save her! She's still alive and thriving 6 months later because of you. It took some time to get things right, as I was unprepared, but she went from a tiny bug container (just the first night) to a lovely large tank with love plants and plenty of climbing space which she loves. Thank you so so so much for all you do!! You're the best.
Sincerely, Taylor
I love their little faces. They always look like "Hmmm..." 😒😕🤔
So pensive and judgemental.
@@ClintsReptiles lol, like Kermit the frog when he starts to suspect shenanigans are happening
Yes!
I caught two here in Florida yesterday. They’re fast bastards
Or exuse me
We have three of these lizards and they are great pets. All three of them have been rescues. They are all female and almost never fight. We have an appropriate enclosure in our kitchen and they watch us as much as we watch them. They like to cuddle with us, hang out with us and even enjoy a little electric blanket time. They are the sweetest pets but you need to handle them correctly and I thank you so much for this video.
I basically have a colony of these in my yard
I’ve literally witnessed at least 3 generations living here
Lol yesss in my yard I feed them with whatever insect I find tough I just do'it once do they don't get aco stumed to it
You’re officially considered a ghost who haunts the land
My dad's yard always had a lot of them. Apparently my aunt actually would smuggle these green anoles from our camp a few miles away to the yard just so they'd live there. (She was 7-ish and they're here now, so no need for scolding about that).
A couple hours ago, I found a dehydrated, starved, and dull juvenile anole. I'm hoping I can save him/her, because they got trapped inside my house and couldn't find food. If I let it go, I have no doubts it will die. I caught a small moth from outside and carefully fed it to the anole, and I'm about to put some water in the box I have it in currently.
I have a 10g tank but I don't have access to it yet, so I'm hoping it can survive living in the box for a day or two(it has airholes and can't get out). I really hope it survives!
@Sethaline SL aww good luck! Hope he lives.
To them, you are an immortal giant.
I spent over 300.00 for a glass enclosure and accessories for Henry Anole.A wild caught baby outside my front door in the grass.My buddy deserves the best.Dont skimp and you will be rewarded.Thanks for the great video!
A few years back my class was studying reptiles and we had 9 bins of green anoles. After the unit was over there was 7 left and we were able to take home an anole for $8 each. My parents aloud me to take one home, and a month later I found out that only I and one other classmate still had living anoles! I was surprised that they died so quickly, but we had a large tank, good heating, good humidity, and we never handled her at all.
I’ve moved a few times since then and she is now going on 5 maybe 6 years old (since I got her) and has an even larger enclosure. She has been by herself and is doing well, as she got older she doesn’t get fully green often , and sometimes is a little bit patchy in coloration. Otherwise she seems very healthy and happy and even I’m glad that my family could bring her home rather then another classmate who also wanted her (we got her first, just by a little though) Maybe they would be able to care for her, but you never know
Brown is a sign its stressed maybe your doing something wrong
Konga Famous It’s been a year and now she’s completely green everyday. I have her in a large 30-ish gallon fish tank with tons of live plants and she’s doing great.
Konga Famous I don’t believe brown stands for just stress if you have mostly brownish objects in the enclosure it will naturally turn brown or if they are sun basking they turn brown in order to absorb more heat. I had one that lived around 5 years and his name was leaf miss him a lot tho
Is she still alive 🥺🥺🥺
XoDaniii Yes she is!
I live in Florida and I walk outside and there’s 30 of these guys chilling on my porch.
Yep here in Jax there are hundreds in my yard. They love the Sago palms
About 20 of them per day for me south louisiana
They love hanging out in the plants on my patio here in North Texas. We caught them all the time as kids in Houston. I still catch them and leopard geckos when slip into our sunroom so I return them to the patio to be pest control. They are so fun to watch doing their courtship displays or having turf wars over their favorite plants.
Thanks for this! Nobody addresses these little cheap lizards, but they're so cool and it's difficult to find quality care information. I had a bunch of these guys growing up and you're absolutely right. If you set up a big, bioactive display tank and get a few females and one male, you'll have endless entertainment. They're so active, they have big expressive personalities, and those males are always trying to impress.
latieplolo rock on! when I finally have a place of my own back in the US, that’s my plan! This was my first pet lizard, and I’d love to have a breeding group in the future.
So cool!! I heard they are like the carnival goldfish but reptiles and that makes me so sad. Every animal should be well cared for. After my sweet pal Patwin the cornsnake died I am now looking to set up my big terra (50x24x35) bioactive for a little group of anoles and am so excited! Just difficult to find reliable information but Clint helps out a lot!
if you like them come to florida the brown anoles are everywhere!
people who sell these at pet stores should really tell you what is needed to take care of these. not hey here's a plastic carry thing and a electric heat rock put these stones in the bottome and a peice of fake grass carpet thing for them to poop on. and then you add a small water bowl some grass for the bugs you put in and a stick or two and a small peice of log for them to hide under. they defintly dont tell you to not grab them
We bought a Green Anole at the New York Renaissance Faire, and you seriously need to reach out to them, because the advice they gave you was basically 180 degrees opposite of what you gave. Mine is still alive after almost a year (his name is Lorus), but the first thing I did when I got him home was take him to the Vet who told me I needed a bigger enclosure, the UVa and UVb lamps, better food, more stimulation, etc., and I went to the pet store and got all of that.
My anole loves to come to the front of his enclosure, and tease our cats, because they are smart lizards, and he has figured out he is safe inside his enclosure, so he will often climb the wall to his thermometer and just tease the cats. It is amazing to watch as he jumps from thermometer to leaf to front to the climbing wall in the back. If the cats have left him alone for more than about three hours, he comes to the front glass to look for them.
I recommend them if you are willing to pay the costs. They are awesome lizards!
That's actually good. The cats provide some natural stimulation. Just like humans with horror movies sometimes it's good to get scared. It provides a bit of realism without compromising safety.
The carnival goldfish of the reptile world, unfortunately
Tbh the problem with common goldfish isn't really the fish's individual care, people don't k ow how to care for fish in general. I have on that I won from a carnival 2 weeks ago and he is as happy as can be in his planted aquarium.
@@rgio1885 A word of warning, once that goldfish hits about 3" (they can reach a foot) it's going to start eating most of your plants.
Oof, i got my first anole at the fair. She is very spoiled and has a sister we got at our local pet shop.
It’s a feeder
My grandson went to a carnival in July this year with his friend and his friend's parents. They allowed the boys to play a game that won these. I took it right away and did a bioactive set up for her. I now have her in a temp cage made from a 64 quart bin. In the bio, she had too many places to hide that I couldn't get to or find. She has a habit of staying hidden for 24-48 hours some days. The bio was set up in a reptibreeze 16x16x30. I built a coroplast box for the outside so it could be carried and a 8" base for the inside with a black grow sack in it. Everything came from Josh's frogs and it's great, no cleaning but trying to find her is a needle in a hay stack. She has never eaten much and she is losing weight, I haven't seen her eat for a while. Lots of plants, leaf litter, everything. Now that she is in the bin, I can pick her up and place her in a feed box( before crickets were let loose, I kept food in it for them). She has refused dusted crickets, waxworms( just got today to fatten her up)calci worms or the normal meal worms kept in a dish that also has food for them. I have multi sizes from 1/2 to thin giant mealworms about 1" plus, some fat, some thin. Both the mealworms and calci worms were seeded into the substrate. She ignored both the flies and the beetles. I just got some reptiboost to give her, if she will take it. Her bulbs are 60 watt basking ( 92-102) and she had a reptisun 5.0. It needed replaced so I also get her a 10.0 today. I don't know what I am doing wrong. The friend's anole has already died sadly. Help!
I tend to hold my green anoles super often so they have grown to enjoy it, and they gimme lil licks when I hold them, they also let me pet them, overall their really great pets
Word of caution: Just be gentle because their skin is so soft you could accidentally pull off a tail or leg and not realize it until too late. We have them in our pool screen enclosure. I sometimes remove them to the outside when there are two trying to be friendly but one is inside and one is out side. They run trying to get away but I am gentle so I don't squash or break them. Their babies I call Tiny. Boy are they little. Only an inch long counting the tail. Cute!
Down here in South Florida I get those in my yard all the time and even in my house... I guess you can say they're "free roaming"
Welp... That saves you $5.
@@dionysus3774 and the anoles are happier too.
They are native to Florida, unlike the more common brown ones... the Cuban Brown Anole, and they are threatened now because of the invasion into their territory by them. They should never be sold or taken in as pets!!!!!
Same here in Texas
@@sandramickelson8309My native Atlanta anoles are chameleons and belong outside, not as pets!
Love watching this while chilling with my little guy! I happen to have a big Ole male who is the sweetest thing ever. He loves being handled and even loves going places with me, I even made him a tiny harness lol. Also I did want to point out that the anole in the video is 100% a male and not a female, in the shots where he is on the glass u can see the 2 enlarged scales under his flap. Fabio (my green anole) says hi to you all!!!
Awh, my first reptile was a Green Anole I got at a flea market lol. I was 13, the man sold him to me said he was already a year old. He was in a critter keeper, and told me he could live his entire life in it! And if I'm being honest, his first week was in there, until I did the research and showed my mom they needed heat lamps, UVB, etc. My mom is great, she agreed with me and we went to the pet store and upgraded his home! He passed away a month after I turned 19, making him 7. The vet frequently told me she was impressed he was as old as he was, as most she sees die before they turn 3.
How big did he get?
I love these little guys my yard is full of them. The babies just hatched. When I step outside there is a flurry of jumping cuteness.
I like “anol “ better..... bc whenever you say “anol-ey “ I think of Italian dessert.
Delicious!
Leave the gun, take the anole.
I like "anoley" better because everytime I say anole someone thinks I say anal lol
Anal
Lacy Jinks canole
When someone says "lizard" I think of the green anole, as I grew up with them around everywhere. Love them. I also love when you say "anol-e" it sounds awesome and fun to say :)
I find it offensive that you don't have more subs. I'm a lifelong reptile keeper and find your videos incredibly informative and entertaining. I enjoy sharing your videos with my children.
Thank you. We've never had a video go viral. I think we suffer from limited exposure. I guess we need more clickbait. A huge percentage of our views come from our existing subscribers. We're trying to make our videos more appealing to outside audiences without sacrificing quality, content, or stressing animals. I don't see us going the clickbait path, so slow and steady it is. Maybe someday we'll get to a point where you don't need to be offended. We really appreciate your support.
@@ClintsReptiles I just meant that you and the channel are "stinkin rad" and wish you had more exposure. You are so much better than the clickbait channels, and I think you and your team deserve more recognition for the great content you put out, and your contagious, genuine enthusiasm.
i find it offensive he says anoley
Love watching these guys and the 5 lined skinks basking and climbing in the garden, and I think I prefer keeping them there and not in a cage where they can be happy and help me with some pest control.
I live in South Carolina and have the pleasure of having a large population of these lizards around my house. I love to watch them outside and that's where they'll stay
That is one of the best things about the Southeast.
We have tons of them here in North Texas .They didn't exist here at all (nor did geckos) when I was a herp-loving kid several decades ago, but the flip-side of that is that many lizards found here back then, like horned toads, six-lined race runners, and even fence swifts, are seldom seen here anymore.
I do love to watch the anoles out in the garden and around the deck. Why someone would go to the trouble and expense to keep them indoors in an area like this mystifies me. Somehow nature is always more rewarding when it's outdoors where it's supposed to be.
I also live in South Carolina and I love befriending these lil fellas.
I caught one at my neighborhood pool and he would not leave my hand because I let him bask on it and he fell asleep
Wild Anole: *Are you sure about that?*
I just want to say the lighting on your more recent videos is much better and it's awesome to see a channel grow in terms of presentation as much as content. Good job
Ok, true story. When I was six years old my dad had caught a green anole that was climbing on the side of his business ( not going to give the name of his his company for anonymity reasons) and brought it home to me as a pet. No one in my family knew a thing about keeping lizards. So we basically just got an aquarium with a regular light, and some food and water bowls and set it up for the anole. That lizard lived with us for a year before we decided to let it go. I think the reason was that he kept crawling onto the top of the aquarium and burned his back by getting too close to the light. After letting him go, at our house, he must have found a few girlfriends because there were green anoles everywhere. I remember going outside and seeing the bushes around my house being covered with them. I remember seeing that pet anole we released (that burn mark made him easy to tell apart) like maybe 5 or 6 times after that but he disappeared eventually. I feel bad for him now because of how I never knew how to care for him when I was very young, but it seems he had a good life after we released him out onto our property.
@ॐ गणेश ॐ it's your local dog place
I have an anole that my godmother found in her house and then gave to me, she’s a great pet and actually loves handling and gives me licks, I also let her climb on me rather then grab them because that just scares them
I’m glad you made a video spotlighting how amazing these guys are, I have a green anole myself who I saved from a neighbors cat, normally I let them go but she was actually blind in both eyes so I had to open her mouth and hand feed her crickets for like 3 months straight until she finally opened her eyes. She’s living in a bioactive screen 16x16x30 cage now and she’s honestly the friendliest reptile I own, she walks right up to me and will just chill on me while I’m working around the reptile room, she even lets me gently pet her head and she’ll just lay there and close her eyes, green anoles are amazing
I’m having the same experience right now with the anole I just rescued earlier today
There is one that bask on my front porch, it’s chilly today in NC. She is so chill, I saw her yesterday and she just looked at me with so much interest and intelligent. She has a little bit of stuck shed on her back, but other than that just the chillest.
I appreciate you stressing the importance of the correct equipment for these beauties! One out of ten people watching may take your words to heart and do just what you’ve said. It will be a great improvement over how they’re kept now. Having considered one, and deciding against because of all the necessary things they need, I’m glad someone with a platform is speaking out. Just wish more reptile folks would do the same.
On another note 🎶, just loving the “Blinking is for mortals” tee I got! So many people will comment on it, then, I get a chance to plug your channel! Yay!
Blessings!
Thank you so much! That is probably my favorite of our shirts that I own. I love them all, but I wear that one the most.
Also thank you for the review of our video. I hope this video does a lot to help inform potential buyers in the future. I'd love to save a few lizards and their uninformed keepers.
@@ClintsReptiles thank you a lot I got this at q carnival and wanted a proper set up for it but I have basic knowledge as I have a leapord gecko.
I want to get an anole but I want to wait until I am out of school and working so I can invest in the required equipment and possible vet trips. I read that anoles can develop a mouth infection if not cared for properly and I can't spend hundreds of dollars on a vet trip right now. My last pet was a bit of an impulse buy and it just wasn't working out and I had to return him to the pet store😔
Here in southern Mississippi we have these all over in the wild. I’ve caught and played with these cute guys my whole life, and only recently have I started to really get how special they are. I was never cruel to them, but I am willing to bet I hurt a few just by being too rough as a child. Now occasionally I’ll rescue some from my cat and bring them inside to be sure they’re ok. I’m teaching my daughter to be gentle and respectful, and a few have even chosen to climb on her and just hang out. They really are exceptional little guys and I’m so glad to have them in my yard!
I’m glad you posted this. I had considered getting one of these lil guys, but I don’t think I would be able to realistically provide the care that would make them thrive. Thanks again Clint! Keep the great content going guys!
All you need is crickets and a heat lamp and sticks and a water bowl and a spray bottle that has mist
Leunr Phantom You need humidity which is probably the hardest part.
@@leunrphantom9524 and of course, trees.
I have had both Green and Brown Anoles for the past 4 years and they are absolutely amazing pets! They are super fun to watch and they have amazing personalities! Would recommend them to anyone looking for a pet that is easy to care for and a cheap alternative to other reptiles !!!
Suggestions:
Lizards:
Green Basilisk
Mourning Gecko
Alligator Lizard (southern and northern)
Argus Monitor
Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Snakes:
Anthill Python
Eastern Coachwhip
Indigo Snake
Savu Python
Sunbeam Snake
I agree!
Voltix I need a green basilisk lizard
Basilisk lizards please
I’m happy with my Solomon island spiny neck monitor
Voltix.. I wish he would do basilisk video too, curious what he would say. Anyway I have 3 green basilisks-- All 100% tame, and leash trained, they will sit on my shoulder while going for a walk. I can give you lots basilisk advise. For my many basilisk videos on youtube search- daniel r green basilisk
I have these lil guys running around the outside of my house and backyard! I love seeing their lil dewlap displays and the way they bob their lil heads! such cuties
I’ve actually never seen one in a pet store before, surprised to hear they’re that common!
They're not very common in the usual, "mammal-centric" pet stores. But, I've never been to a reptile store that didn't have anoles.
SJ L thank you, but i haven’t been in a mammal specific one in years I only go to reptile stores these days. Guess they just aren’t so common in my neck of the woods
Not so common here either. Possibly more related to being near regions where they can be easily brought in from wild populations.
@T REX same here I guess we export them and thats it ive breed them before there very cute babies
@@melskunk PetSmart usually has em
Reptiles may be cold blooded, but they sure do warm my heart so much
Sadly Brazil has very harsh regulations with exotic animals and you can only [legally] get animals (that's not a dog or a cat) from government approved places (that are very few and a lot more expensive)
Aw that sucks! I wish you the best in your lizard finding!
Eu sou brasileira tb vc sabe quais são os lugares para ter répteis?
Thanks for making this video! As a giant anole fan it’s great that you didn’t ignore these little guys. Keep up the great work!
That one dislike is from the salty anole in the video because you handled her.
There's 71, actually
@@Che_Yo That's a lot of salty anoles
@Sunday F, Stop leaving comments like that.
@@FusionDeveloper found a salty anole
@@sundayf.298 good one -_-
I will be taking in a surrendered green anole some time within the next two weeks. The owner has told me that this one is aggressive, bites and hates being touched.
Watching your video absolutely helps me in knowing how to handle him, if I do so, and learning how to properly care for this lizard is fantastic. Thank you for making this video to teach people!
Anoles were the first pet reptile I owned as a kid. My parents brought one home from Florida that they purchased at a gift shop. This started my love for reptile keeping! Also living in Georgia I see these all the time they are everywhere here.
I think it’s adorable how observant those little anoles are. They’re always watching you.
This is one of the lizards I’ve been interested in since middle school, one of the science teachers had a colony of them and it was always super fascinating
I lived in Florida and right outside my office window there was a cool looking plant that was home to a pair of these. I would watch them hunt, breed, fight off rivals(which was so cool) So much fun to watch. It was like my pets that lived outside lol. They lived in the plant for at least three years
Green anoles were my introduction to reptile keeping. I miss my little guys they were so fun! I currently have a veiled chameleon.
If people start breeding green anoles more regularly, a suggestion I have is to separate the babies from the adults after hatching because the adults do cannibalize them.
Love green anoles! My daughter has had one or two at a time ever since she was little and she is 16 now. We've really enjoyed raising these little guys over the years.
I used to get a little embarrassed at the pet shop when they asked what we were feeding because a lot of people use these as feeders but now we are pretty proud to say we have green anoles! ❤
Im really glad i saw this video today! My husband was thinking about a display tank for his office where he spends much of his time and was thinking fish... but having kept fish i know the filter will drive him crazy! Im thinking i may mention an anole and we might look into it as an option, especially for a beautiful planted bio active for him to enjoy. It might be a really nice addition to our reptile crew that i honestly would have over looked because they are really so common that i dont even think of them! Now time for more research! Thanks for planting the thought :)
A filter shouldn't make much noise at all, and there are lots of options other than the standard hang on the back one, js
Hey! So what did you end up deciding? I'm curious now haha
@ISuckAtNamingThings he ended up deciding on just some fake plants XD but I had a cool crested gecko display tank downstairs for myself lol
I saw a green anole at a pet store yesterday and I was really curious about why it costed 15€ while all the other reptiles were more than 100€. Very interesting video, I love the way you talk about them, it shows how passionate you are about reptiles and it's adorable!!! Greetings from Spain ❤️
As a keeper/breeder of Green Anoles, I recommend Anoles to people getting into the hobby as a great starter pet. I clicked instantly when I saw this, I loved it man, keep up the good work!
I searched for a video just to hear the pronunciation of *"Anole"* and that was the first thing you adressed. Thanks!
Yes! I have a ton of "Pets" of these Green Anoles in my backyard!
Found one of these in a potting soil bag from walmart in Indiana on Halloween having sat on my porch in 40 degrees for weeks. Hatchling. I'm from Florida so I knew it was a baby brown anole. It was a miracle it was alive so I set him up as good as I could and plan to take him home to Florida when I visit in January.
Hey, you are an extraordinary man, I have a special respect for the work you make. I'm sure there are so many people who are much better educated because of you and the team dealing with this channel. Congratulations ! I can hardly wait for the next episode to appear.
Thank you so much. I definitely think this channel has a clear mission, and it is a mission I'm very excited about. Thank you so much for your kind words.
I love anoles so much. I just got another one as a rescue. It is incredibly Emaciated and lethargic. She is so fragile so when I have to handle her to get her to eat or clean her I’m terrified I’m gonna hurt her. Thankfully she seems to trust me I bit cuz my hand means food. She’s making a touch of improvement. It’s very slow tho.
I live in Florida there are like 7 that live in my front yard lol
Edit: thx for all the likes this is the most I’ve ever had
I used to live in Florida. I loved the abundance of herps that were just in your yard at any given moment.
We used to catch these on vacation in Florida
Can you go herping?
Same lol
I also live in Florida. Only 7? lol
I can tell you really care about these guys
I don't think I'd ever want to own of these lizards as a pet when I can get a similar experience from just simply training the wild ones in my yard to accept food.
They have a certain charm to them that their antsy brown cousins lack.
Not everyone has that awesome opportunity.
That’s so cute! What a good idea! They get the best of both!
@@AlbinoAxolotlIt's a pretty easy process, too. I start by approaching slowly then holding a mealworm around a corner so they can see the worm, but not my hand, which makes more likely to approach.
Once you get them to take something once, they'll rather quickly start to associate humans with food and eventually start running over when they see you, though this can potentially be dangerous for them if they're located in a place where they might encounter mischief-makers, so I avoid feeding the ones along the edges of the property.
I've found that the gold dust day geckos are by far the most open and persistent about hand-feeding out of the three lizards in my yard, to the point where they'll start following me around the yard until they get their treats. One even was bold enough to infiltrate the house through a hole in the screen and find me at the computer desk (Though he quickly learned to not do this after having to be caught and relocated one too many times).
Lol
I keep trying that with the 5 line and broad headed skinks in my yard...no luck.
So I set up an enclosure in the house and put one in there. Now I can hand feed a cool little lizard for a few months and put him back outside healthy later.
this channel has some of the best videos on youtube. I find myself rewatching most of the videos at some point in time. :)
These things are all over the place in Florida where I live. Every once in a while I will go to Petsmart and get a few to put in my screened in pool area. (I have a small garden out there where I put them) They get out... but since they are endemic it doesn't really matter. I think there are about 30 in and around my pool area at this point... I've only bought about a dozen, the rest come in from outside the screen to eat the crickets I put out.
I also have an old 20 gallon tank in my room that I'll put some in from time to time just to watch. It's a hand me down from when my parents gave me a baby iguana. (the iguana ended up in a 5x5x6 ft cage within a year by the way) I have so many light fixtures and other supplies around from old terrariums that its easy to throw something together for a lizard or frog or insect that catches my eye in the yard so that I can watch it for a day or 2.
I visited Florida a while back and there were a lot of these brown lizards around that looked something like these. I later learned that they were Cuban anoles...an invasive species that had chased the native anoles up into the trees.
@@MickPosch Yup, those brown ones are all over the place, especially in the southern half of the state. The greens are still around, just not as many and they stay up higher now.
I respect how much you clearly worry about the health and well being of reptiles. I now go to your channel first for all my pet wondering
These guys were the second lizard i ever owned, i was about 9. Their names were Chestnut and Lulu, me and my parents listened to the pet stores advice. Unfortunately they didn't tell us that these guys needed uvb lighting among other things and they both died of metabolic bone disease within a year before we could even get them to a vet(my parents didn't even WANT to take them). Do your reasearch and make sure your taking proper care of your new scaly friend 💔
I wish I'd seen this video sooner! Didn't ever know you had one on green anoles. :) When I was in fourth grade my class got six of these lizards as an educational move... I've always been disappointed with the school about those lizards once I knew more about them, but after this video I'm reaching levels of disgust. They called them "chameleons" to start with, something the school should be ashamed of, and while they had appropriately sized crickets, good humidity and good soil with planted grass, the critter keepers we had them in weren't even a fraction of what they needed in terms of space, not to mention being devoid of climbables. Of course, they didn't have heat or uv.
We also had mealworms that year, that we raised into darkling beetles. That was really great; they really should have just stuck with the bugs. They're surprisingly good with handling when they're used to you! :) One of my favorite bugs to this day.
I like anoles, I just find them very flighty and fragile.
I had one for over 14 years. He was one of the best pets I’ve ever had. Loved being stroked and would just chill on my chest while I watched TV.
A childhood spent catching these guys in my backyard was well spent. I hope little me wasn't too rough on those cute little creatures.
I've spent over $1500 on my anole setup. Worth every penny.
Dang! How big is the set up?
I had one as a teenager. It was really calm and enjoyed being handled.
I have a green anole that my brother got when he had a project at school to take care and learn about anoles. It has been 5 years and proud to say he's still alive. This comment is so random....
Love all your videos but really appreciative of this one. I don't think these would have been on my radar otherwise. I'm more interested in the build of my paladarium than having some specific critter. But because of that the anole actually fits my needs really well. I was planning to build the enclosure with or without the lizard. Really looking forward to getting one.
Love the videos, Clint! I'm going to visit family in the Provo area and I told my wife that we need to go look around the Animal Ark in Orem while we're there. I'm excited to see what it's like haha
Ever since I saw this video, I am dedicated to make the best green anole enclosure possible. I am sparing no expense. And the dollars are mounting, Thank you for the inspiration and instruction Clint!
I live in georgia and i see these in my yard all the time
I grew up in florida with them everywhere.. sometimes we would would sit in the driveway and just stare at them sunbathe becasuse they were just so cool, can’t wait to get some as a throwback to my childhood
I caught them lol
Catching anoles in the wild is a TASK.
It definitely takes some skill and practice.
I used to do it all the time as a kid
You'll get good at it with practice just gotta distract them with one hand and lightly cover em with your other hand from behind
If they get used to your presence and associate you with a treat, they are almost instantly tame.
I do it daily
clint you are spot on. i live in north carolina and they are everywhere. I go outside and pick them up every day in my backyard. i can find up to ten in a minute. they love basking in the sun. they are a bit skittish, but once you pick them up they never want to leave you (and yes probably because my skin is so warm). unfortunately, my dog likes to chase them. she puts them in her mouth and nibbles, but never eats them. they usually drop their tail and will play dead, but sometimes they do die. ive never been able to feed them. i love that they eat insects...i hate spiders and house centipedes. i love them!
Speaking of tanks and expense... about 3 months ago I was given a few green anoles. I put them in an old 15 gallon tank with a hand-me-down light set... they did great, but I felt bad. Fast forward to today when I just finished _Chateaule anole_ ... a beautiful 48x12x18 fully planted tank with several brand new heat and uv lights and a waterfall ... ... which ended up costing me about $250 in total... for a couple of _free_ lizards -_-
It looks great in my living room though.
I used to catch these little dudes all the time when I was a kid. They're so easy to tame! I remember catching one and after handling it for a few minutes, it was just cool with being on me and eventually crawled up my arm to my shoulder where it then hung out at for hours while I was outside playing. It was no doubt an ideal basking spot since it was in the middle of the Summer in North Carolina and my shoulder had a lot of direct exposure to sunlight.
Love Green Anoles! However the little one you had there was a male. :) He has two larger postanal scales (which you can see them pretty clearly in the shots of his underside) which is only on male green anoles. He's adorable nonetheless and they make fun pets!
After watching this video, I've got to say that you are hands down The best informational reptile source on the internet. I have another who is a no BS breeder who won my heart by addressing terrible trending misinformation- so it was hard for me to come to this final conclusion about your channel, but listening to you repeat the facts over and over and over I was won. The fact that humans treat animals, insects, Beings as disposable accessories crushes my soul to even Think about, but listening to the important message that well meaning people [or the latter type] need to hear in relation to these gorgeous yet incredibly fragile cheap little guys was bittersweet for me. I was so glad to hear this important information driven home but learning anew about yet another creature on the market suffering makes me want to run far away with my old man dragon rolled up in a fluffy burrito blanket tucked under my arm, calling what I have learned so far good enough.
That being said, I can 100% relate to your passion for these gorgeous animals and the potential for wondrous worlds of beauty their habitats hold in store. It would combine two of my favorite aspects of living:plants and animals. Thank you for taking the time to answer the desperate demand for straight forward factual information about reptiles and their absolute unwavering needs. My landlord just dumped a juvenile dragon on me in the middle of a financial crisis. Meanwhile my first unexpected geriatric disabled rescue is doped up and entrapped in partial brumation, essentially giving me a break-this high demand new guy has shown me the draw for more ornamental reptiles who most certainly will not develop personality issues due to lack of physical interaction. His 20 gallon is half what he needs and I've just rigged up a tube UVB to my old fish tank hood light to replace the crap that came with what I'm assuming was a box set. I'm just trying to get settled into work so that I have time to field questions when I put him up for adoption in a rescue group I joined and have been monitoring for a while now. Seeing this video only reaffirms my need for finding someone more capable than me. It's the fact that many reptiles are completely silent that poses such a danger because they don't express their needs in ways that many know how to recognize. Yet the relationship that I have with my old guy dragon is so impactful that I can't imagine life without him. I sure adore this little one but I've got to give someone else a chance to form that same kind of bond I know I am incapable of taking the time to invest in. No shame in admitting it's too much. Plenty of shame in trading ego for an animal's life. Thank you again for the wonderful work you are doing!
The Darkling Beetle can and should replace all 'trinket" or "desk" pets like Betas, goldfish, hamsters etc. They are THE most unflappable beings on the planet and they too are also awesome to watch in an endless array of habitat options in which they will thrive and reproduce effortlessly. I have 2 females and a male in an old 1950's 5 gallon Metachrome fish tank that was once a terrarium, and had 3 more of the same in a medium jar. I had to upturn the entire jar environment into my sink because the superworms grew too big for the dirt level and now they've been going about life in the stacked up pieces of bark I took out and placed in the corner of the sink about 2 hours, ago while I look for more soil for their upgrade to my other slate bottom tank. Honestly, just watching them go about life for under 30 seconds lowers my blood pressure. Not a care in the world, no fears-just adapting to the porcelain lifestyle as if it were the most natural thing ever. They're therapy pets! But most importantly they're unflappably adaptable-which is never a reptile claim. People should have to pass a feeder care test before moving on to anything more difficult.
You my favorite UA-camr thanks to you I got a crested gecko
I live in Florida and have one that lives on my porch. It comes out to visit when I go sit there. It's special.
Green Anoles are absolutely one of the best pets out there. If you treat them right they live for years and become very friendly.
Moths are treats for them btw!
I love them! I used to keep them as pets in a 20 gallon tall tank planted with plants in Eco Earth. They even laid eggs and had babies for me. They have awesome personalities and are so beautiful! People just don’t want to lay out the money to keep them properly.
I loved this video so much! I grew up catching Carolina anoles in my grandma's hydrangea bed, so they are a really special part of my childhood. As a matter of fact, I even have a tattoo of one to remind me of home. Thanks for making this video!
Side note: I always used to call them "anole-ees", and later got corrected that there isn't a long "e" sound on the end. Maybe both are acceptable?
You’re awesome, Clint. Thank you for all your help.
This was needed. Good job Clint 👍
I live in South Carolina and normally during the summer I have a few of them that live in my “Carolina” room which is my bedroom at the moment as it’s easier for me to let my dogs in and out. So, I don’t kill them or try to let them out as they’ll eat any bugs/spiders in the room which is nice, they climb my curtains and they are fun to watch. I even have photos of them matting which is an odd thing to see. This was great to watch!! Thanks so much for your channel as I’ve learned so much from you!!
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Why did you invade us. You probably would’ve won the war if you didn’t.
@@Xaltix01 haha
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I live in Florida and I used to go outside and feed all of the anoles in my yard mealworms. I’d go into our patio area with our koi pond and drop down about 20 mealworms and just watch atleast 50 lizards every time race to the worms and eat them. It was mostly Cuban anoles but there were problably 5-10 green anoles
I have a question: How come so many reptiles need their bugs to be vitamin dusted? How would they get those vitamins in the wild?
A lot of reptiles get the calcium needed in the wild from licking rocks such as limestone, and getting those vitamins from the UVB rays that the sun provides! Since a lot of pet reptiles don't have limestone in their enclosure and most enclosures are kept inside, they need to have a calcium supplement provided or else they could develop metabolic bone disease, which is when their bones don't grow like they are supposed to, and they end up becoming deformed. Hope this helps!
When crickets are raised in captivity, they do not always get a varied diet, so they are less nutritious to the lizard. Some people also "gut load" their crickets by getting them to eat certain foods so they have that nutrition in their systems when they get eaten
I was looking into a green anole for a new small reptile and came to your video for some basic information (generally my go-to for a new reptile). This video helped me realize that Anoles aren't what I'm looking for at the moment (I'm wanting to add a small single reptile for a small setup with easy care) and I appreciate how informative and honest you are about this lizard's challenges! I expected the anole to be a good choice because they're such a small and inexpensive lizard, but now I'm going to research elsewhere for something more appropriate.
Could you do one for the knight anole, they're one of my most wanted lizards and I'd like to know of it's a good idea.
Yes, we will. Picture this, but much larger.
@@ClintsReptiles Are they readily captive bred?
Mine is captive bred, but the adults that you see for sale are wild caught.
@@ClintsReptiles I'd really prefer getting a baby anyway.
In my experience over ethe years the knight anole isnt a good pet for starters there normally aggressive. But beautiful to watch
I had these growing up. Didnt try holding, we all know they crawl quickly and are fragile sensitive creatures. It was fun not buying crickets from the petstore but catching grasshoppers in the backyard pond we had between jars and jar lids. Watching them hunt is prolific
Honestly I live in North Carolina and I didn’t know these were popular in the pet trade until I got into reptiles 😅 my parents used to joke
That if I wanted a lizard I could go get one out of the yard 😂
Love this. Your expressions and pronunciations give me major David Tennant vibes btw 😆.
Years ago I was introduced the hard way to just how much goes into caring for a reptile. I got a beautiful bearded dragon. Much more costly than the anoles on their own, but he needed the same type of care that the anoles do pretty much. I wasn't lazy, I figured it out over time. He had a very wide open tank, lots of nooks and crannies, heat and uvs, and never missed a meal of crickets, kale, or a favorite of his, banana.
Honestly the most consistently draining of all this was those friggin heat lamps. Dear god I couldn't ever find any that lasted over a month and it basically became an additional monthly bill! Lol
He was a happy dragon though. Miss him much. Loved just chillin on the couch with him on my shoulder for a little bit.
I love this guy you can tell that he really cares about the animals and he is wanting to let you know what you are getting
A bully killed my Lizzie when I was a child and I saw it dead and I have never stopped loving them but I can never look at them the same and I can never get one again...
Oh my gosh! I cought one as a kid who's name was lizzie but once she dropped her tail I was so scared I was going to kill her that I decided to put her back in the wild! Lol
I find these lizards all the time outside my house it’s amazing seeing you do a video on them!
Thank you for making this video. Now I can finally stop my little cousin from killing these little guys. They're so beautiful and deserve to live a full life. Truly the gem of lizards
That makes my heart hurt, I grew up with these lizards, I hate to see one dead.
You weren't wrong when you said these are basically free lizards. I just found a baby brown Anole in my home yesterday! He's so small. Only 2/3rds the size of my index finger including the tail! Weirdest part is... I live in upstate NY!!! I'm thinking he was a stow away in plants I bought from Lowe's 2 months ago. Well long story short, this adorable FREE baby lizard just ran my pockets for $250 to get him the most basic setup that he/she will be able to grow into. But I'm worst case scenario as I've never owned any type of reptile so I had to buy everything at the drop of a hat. 100% would do it again! He/she's eating and already picked out their favorite basking spot high up a branch a couple inches below the 40w light.
These just live in my back yard