Walked into the room today and found Hobo buried head first in the soil about halfway up her belly (head first). Pretty sure she was leaving us another egg and probably another quite soon judging by the looks of her. Quite the sight to see!
Wow. So many eggs... If I were you, if you haven't done already, I'd split 'em up. Brown anoles, unlike greens, will breed year-round as long as the conditions are good (so you must be doing something right, lol). Green anoles are seasonal breeders, hence the massive takeover of green anole territory by browns here in Florida.
We've never had them in the same enclosure. Each of them have their own home (even the babies). She's still laying eggs from whenever she mated BEFORE I caught her at the end of July. Must have mated on the truck coming from Florida! She should be just about done. One of the shots I'm putting in the gallery is of Hobo down in the dirt.
Yeah, I lost count, but I think it was up to about 16 before the most recent. Unfortuneately, most of the eggs didn't make it, but the ones we've found we've tried our best to keep going. As you can tell we have evidence of that with Anode and Cathode!
I'd definitely separate them. Hobotramp's female has never even been with a male since she got her. This is all from a breeding before she had her. The females of most species of reptiles can retain sperm, so if she's still laying after 20 eggs, I'd separate them. She may still lay for weeks to come after you separate them, but it will prevent her from becoming impregnated again when she runs out of sperm to fertilise the eggs with. She'll need to be getting lots of calcium too. Obviously the conditions in the enclosure are good for her to lay eggs in, so rather than setup a whole new enclosure for her, and stress her out with a move, I'd take the male out, so she's still in familiar territory, and can lay her eggs in relative peace.
I herd that a lot of reptiles after breeding can keep unused sperm in their bodies for upto 5 years and breed without a male. I know that is true for a lot of snakes but I am not sure about lizards. If that is the case there could be a lot more eggs to come!
Well, brown anoles can reproduce year-round providing they have adequate conditions. Green anoles have a strict season. This is how the brown anole has managed to all but wipe out the green anole here in Florida. Where the green anole can produce maybe 8-12 offspring per year on average, the brown could produce 30 or 40, and browns can hide from predators a lot better than greens can.
So far only three of the eggs survived, and of those only two offspring (Anode and Cathode) made it past their first couple of weeks. Let everyone know if there are more eggs when we're done the cleaning this weekend. She still seems in good spirits though... pale beige with 'a round belly' AGAIN!!! (She can stop anytime... it'll be a year since I caught her at the end of July, so we're more than halfway to the one year mark)'
i find it hard keeping eggs coz once one goes mouldy they all do i try to move them or change temp quick or humidity but you never know witch is to high or not enough do ? please give me some feed back on that coz ive still got eggs in the tub waiting to hatch
When I used to breed corns I always gave my eggs to either KMC (a college that has reptiles and much more) or to my herp. I only did this because I could never get the eggs to live. I always got the hatched corns back to do as I wished. But I was kind enough to let the herp or college keep some for their troubles (and that fact that I didn't have enough room to house 80 babies )
