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Okay, I actually have several issues going on with this anole... I'll address them all, since I'm here.
We bought a pair of anoles, both believed to be male, about 6-7 months ago. We housed them together at first, where they seemed fine. However, one of them is currently and has always been apt to being brown. Whenever we clean their tank or take them out for any other reason (we don't handle them "for fun", just to clean their tank and such) and this anole gets stressed/excited/etc. he turns green. However... I really do not think he is a species of brown anole. I think he's just a green anole that either prefers to be brown or is constantly stressed.
About two months ago we moved him into a separate tank because we thought the other anole was rumbling with him. He seemed to enjoy being in the new (yet smaller) tank, and was definitely eating well... yet he was still always brown.
Then just last week we moved him and the green anole into a new, much larger and taller tank. The brown colored anole still remained brown, and one afternoon I noticed that he had his dorsal-back/spine-thing (offhand I've completely forgotten what it's called) raised, and was flaring his dewflap at the other anole (the one who used to pick on him).
So... I moved that other anole into another tank, and the brown colored anole is still brown. Onto my second issue... he's been shedding awfully frequently lately. I saw him shed at least 2-3 times while he was in that small tank alone, and now it seems that he has some sheddy skin attached to his head that's been there for a couple days. We've been misting him a few times a day in order to try and raise the humidity so that he sheds fully, but it doesn't seem to be happening. His temperature is fine, and the only thing that is different is that this new tank has two screen sides as well as the screen top, compared to the glass-sided tanks (w/screen tops) that he'd always been in before.
I've looked around on anole caresheets and I can't find much information. Most of these sites say that if an anole is constantly brown, he is stressed. But I've put him in four different enclosures now, and even the one where he was solitary didn't seem to help. Right now I'm mainly concerned about the shedding though. Is it possible for an anole to shed too much?
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