Hey guys, Heather here, and we are here at the Bahaman Anole tank here at TDI on the shop floor,
and today we're gonna check out just how tiny their babies are.
I counted about four babies this morning, so we'll take a look at those and
see just how microscopic they are.
Now way up there, if you look really close past the... the very obvious male that's
flaring his dewlap, you can see a tiny little baby resting... actually on the
underneath of the tail of the adult, and he is basking. He's using that as a basking spot.
So cute and so small!
Let's see if we can find another one.
Oh, there's another one!
He's chilling out right there. Let's see...
Oh, an adult is coming.
Bigger adults will have no issue eating a small baby, but we have pretty good
luck with ours, but I would recommend you keeping them separate just in case
the adult gets really hungry at one point and decides to... and sees one moving around
really fast and then goes after it, so, I would recommend keeping them separate.
But yeah, this is a community tank. We keep females and males together and babies.
They all hang out together, and of course they breed and have lots of eggs.
So, at one point, this whole section from here to like all the way down here was full of eggs.
As you can see, quite a few have hatched out. You can see the gaps
where there have been eggs hatching,
And then you see there are still some eggs left to hatch.
Now these smaller species of anoles, their eggs take about 30 to 45 days to hatch.
Of course, whenever we find their eggs, like we're not sure exactly when they were laid
so they could be well along in their development when we first see them.
They like to lay their eggs together, we've noticed. Like one time Jennii, she dug up a
corner of the tank and she found tons of eggs in one spot, and then she took them all and buried
them up here so we can see when they hatch. It's pretty obvious to see when they hatch. The egg'll
be collapsed in, and then you'll be on the lookout for little babies. So that's kinda
why we do that so we know when babies are born and when to look out for them.
And then if you look down there, you can see another one. A little guy hanging out on the bottom.
Very tiny.
Much tinier than our baby beardies that we see all the time.
I know there was another one over here earlier. I got a clip of him. I'll throw it up there.
Yeah, I see four babies this morning, and they hang out and all that good stuff together.
But it's inevitable if you do have a male and female anole together, they will most likely
have children. It's just... we find that that happens a whole bunch for us, so don't be surprised
if you don't even find their eggs one day, and then all of a sudden, you get babies popping out
of the ground because they do incubate at like basic room temperature. Like at least we... I
think.... yeah, I mean, we've got them buried in here and that's basically room temperature
down here. It's not really warm, but yeah, they do incubate just kinda like crested gecko eggs.
You don't have to do much for them. You can leave them where they are, and they hatch out perfectly fine.
But yeah, we just wanted to show you guys just how small they are when they first hatch out.
Those guys are probably only a few days old so... and they'll grow quickly and then they'll be
breeding even more so... Yeah, they tend to multiply rather quickly.