my anole just lied a egg this morning, and i don't kno what to do with it! should i keep it in the tank and leave it with its mother and father, or should i put it into a separate Tupperware container and let it hatch?
let the anole take car of it make shure there is the write kind of heating and stuff it is verry important
To prevent injury to the egg, either by the female digging to bury another one or by you as you service the terrarium, the eggs should be removed and set carefully in a mixture of damp sterile vermiculite (1:1 mix, or one part water to 12-14 parts vermiculite) or sand, in a covered container, and incubated at 82-85 F, checked weekly to assure the substrate remains damp and that none of the eggs has molded. Provide gentle, not direct heat, to keep the container at 84-86 F (29-30 C); eggs should hatch in 35-40 days. Hatchlings are 1.25 svl, about 2-2.5 stl, and are considered mature at 4-5 stl. They eat voraciously, and must be supplied with lots of pinheads that have been properly gut-loaded and shaken in a calcium and multivitamin supplement before being fed out. Fruit fly larva and wingless fruit flies are also good foods for hatchlings.
