Anole lizard accepting hand-feeding

This Carolina anole in our back yard has learned to accept mealworms hand-fed with forceps. Just an occasional treat for her. Don't worry, she hasn't lost her hunting skills!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• lizard
• green
• Carolina
• anole
• gecko
• mealworm
• wild
• feeding
• chameleon
• Poulenc

[bearhorse2424]

is that his food or his treat PLEASE ANSWER i might be getting one but my mom does not want crickets in the house

[cvalkan4]

@bearhorse2424

Just a treat for these anoles, which are living outside in my yard, not really "pets." However, I do have several pet leopard geckos, and regularly feed them mealworms as their staple food, supplemented with calcium and vitamins, and they have done fine for years. I haven't kept or bred anoles, so don't know for sure. about them.

[taijiangah]

What a beautiful anole, but if you want to give it a treat please give it wax worms (Not too much though! Wax worms are very fatty and anole chow them like candy, I only feed mines a couple every week or 2) Mealworms carapace can be hard to digest for some anoles, and in some cases (more often than you might think) when the head is not fully crushed during feeding, the worm can actually slowly eat its way back out from inside the anole, causing a rather painful death for it.

[cvalkan4]

@taijiangah

Thanks! I am not convinced about the danger of mealworms. I have talked with a number of breeders of geckos, and they say the mealworm is quickly killed by stomach acid, and cannot eat its way out. Plus, I have noticed that the anoles chew the worms up pretty well before swallowing, while my leopard geckos just gobble them down nearly whole.

+1 on the waxworms, though - they love them (but too expensive for more than occasional treats).

[bearhorse2424]

@cvalkan4 ok were do you get the vitamins and the calcium dust

[atlanticseagirl]

Awww, that is so cute...