Long Tailed Grass Lizards, House Geckos and even more Newbie Questions.

Just and update on my 90g. The plants are really starting to fill out and grow both on the land and in the water and my fish are very happy and have grown to full size. Yesterday I added as school of Neon Tetras and 3 nerita snails. I now have the Tetras and Danios and the nerita as well as the mts, 4 green anoles (I belive 1 male 3 Females), 2 house geckos (Anyone know how to sex these?), and a green tree frog)

I have decided against the viper geckos for my 20 as they cost $99 around here. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with long tailed grass lizards and what they thought about keeping them in there.

Thanks.

Yeah with a slate background, grapevine, a couple of hides and prolly just a pothos.

The grass lizards are for a species only tank. It will be a 20g (not set up yet, but have lying around). It will have a slate wall, a gravel and coco substrate. With some slate ledges and caves along with a piece of grapevine and a pothos. I was wondering if that would be adequate.

And all the animals I have in my 90g live in florida albeit the house geckos are an introduced species so i'm not mixing regions. I've been around enough cattle and buffalo that can get bangs disease (sp?) to know that you don't mix regions.

But would it be appropriatley sized and how many could fit? I would love 2 females and a male.

As for my geckos one has two bumps like a man on either side of his tail and the other has a mound so I am going to assume that they're boy and girl. Are they known for breeding?

Also one has a broad flat tail thats longer and one has a tail thats shorter and just round. I assume that at one point it came off and was wondering if it will ever grow back to its broad state?

As for my anoles. When do they show their red throats and do only the males do this?

Well I took a closer look at my anoles and have noticed some things. I have also looked at some sexing articles on the internet.

I have one that is nearly always green and displays his red dewlap when agitated (When I feed or I'm examining something in the tank. The other 3 are brown alot and they all have the white jagged stripe down their back indicating females or juveniles, they are smaller also and I have only seen one display a dewlap. They stay brown alot when I'm in the room but are almost always green when I walk into the room leading me to belive that they are still adjusting to their tank, also they are on a brown wall and I think they fell more secure when brown as they are green even when I'm in the room if they are on a plant. The larger and the one I have had the longest stays green nearly all the time though even if I am in the room.

So what do you think of putting 3 grass lizards into a 20gH? I think that they would have the room required but would like some input.

Thanks for the help.

I have never caught an act of agression other than the dominant doing a littly jerky dance and displaying his dewlap. He then quickly jumped on the other anole. I don't think it was agression though I belive it was something "else". They have plenty of places to perch without problems and have plenty of plants for them to hide in.

Is it common for them to turn brown when on a brown/grey perch and they are basking? I have noticed that they are always brown on the wall and then green on the plants. Is this them feeling more secure in the bushes and wanting to blend in more with their surroundings on the background?


I had a bit of an incident last night. I posted my last post and the nlooked at my tank and man am I glad I turned the light on. My frog was attempting to eat one of my anoles. I pulled the anole out of the froggies mouth and thought he was dead but when I was walking to the trash I noticed a twitch so I gave him a quick rinse and de-mucused him. Today he is completley happy and I gave him a couple extra crickets. As for the frog I put him in another tank all by himself and he is also happy and healthy.