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Post by frogwak on Jan 23, 2005 18:31:14 GMT -5
I don't have an anole, but at school biology club is taking care of 6. THere were three in a tank with a UV light since the beginning of the year. We planted some wandering jew in it, and it wandered all over the place. We couldn't see the anoles very well, and the next time i looked (it was after the 3 new ones came in from a mail supplier, which we put in a tank with green treefrogs) i noticed the big one was bright green and happy, except that on his arms this fingers were black and falling off. He has the dark spots behind his eyes, but i'd be stressed if my fingers were falling off too. We moved those three into the green treefrog tank, because the bio teacher said she read somewhere that anoles are stupid enough to stay on a heat rock until they burn off their hands. Someone else said it might be from a lack of UV light cutting off circulation. The treefrog tank has no heat rock, so we're hoping he'll get better. If anyone knows if it's something more serious/ contageous, i'll try to get him out of there. When we put him in the new tank, he was trying to run and climb, and he gave us a good chase when we were trying to get him out of the old tank. As far as that goes, it seems like he's healthy. We should be getting mudpuppies too this week, and a better Mediterranean gecko; better as in alive. We had an educational dissection from it though...
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Post by beeswaxx on Jan 25, 2005 19:00:45 GMT -5
It probably was the heat rock, but that sounds like it was pretty hot...
Hope he gets better.
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Post by Paulito on Jan 30, 2005 16:21:32 GMT -5
Usually that is caused be shedding. When anoles shed sometimes they don't shed completely around their toes, so they become black and fall off.
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Post by beeswaxx on Jan 31, 2005 1:47:27 GMT -5
Interesting. You learn something new every day...
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Post by frogwak on Feb 7, 2005 20:23:13 GMT -5
He died. Another peice of news- now another one has rings on it. The only thing i can compate it to is the eardrum on a bullfrog (I think the timpanal membrane, maybe?). I'm thinking some type of worm.
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Post by TrillionX on Feb 10, 2005 19:55:32 GMT -5
Heres my thoughts: It might be stressed brecause there are other species of animals living with it. also maybe because there are multiple anoles. Are they male? Dont put to much plants you dont want them to become crowded so they cant see there food or move. and about them shedding and there toes coming off, this i have seen in leopard geckos i dont think you should be concerned as long as he can walk hope this helps  |
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Post by frogwak on Apr 25, 2005 17:55:09 GMT -5
Ha. Not at all. We had 6 Anoles, and only one is still alive, but it's in the process of dieing. There's natural selections for ya. It was most likely a fungus or a parasite that was passed through the feces. It would have cost more than the price of the anoles to go to the vet, so we just dissected them.
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Post by kissmyanole on Apr 30, 2005 15:11:39 GMT -5
You just DISSECTED HIM!!!!! That is sooooo cruel! you should not own any animals if all you do when they are sick is dissect them! If you had a dog and he got sick would you just dissect him??? :verymad:
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Post by Thimble on May 10, 2005 8:26:58 GMT -5
Schools don't seem very good at looking after their animals, biology department. They probably find animals more intresting dead than they do alive.  |
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Post by ashley on Jun 1, 2006 12:19:40 GMT -5
that is gross!!! I would and could never do that to my baby anole!  |
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