u/AllYouCanEatBarf

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Hi all, I found a green anole this afternoon (Carolina anole maybe? I assume because I'm in North Carolina) who had recently dropped her tail (at least I hope they can drop their tails). She was laying in the middle of the sidewalk, and I thought she was dead until I got up close and saw her breathing, because she did not move when I got near. I scooped her up in a very small container that I used to keep crickets in for my leopard gecko, put a couple of cap-fuls of filtered distilled water that I use for the geck in there, set it on top of a heating pad on low, and moved my gecko's UVB light for them to share. I raise dubia roaches too, so I put a small one dusted in calcium with D3 in there in the hopes that she'll eat, but so far (~2 hours) she hasn't really moved much, aside from flicking the dubia away from her toes when it bumbled its way too close to her back legs. She has been very brown with a green splotch the whole time, and I'm sure being in such a small enclosure is not helping with that, but unfortunately it's the only one I have that's not occupado. I'm more used to leopard gecko husbandry, so I put a small piece of egg carton-type cardboard in to be used as a hide, but also a stick to climb, though I'm sure she's not impressed. Are there any other tips for helping get her back to health? I basically just want to give her some bugs to build up some fat stores after the tail drop and set her back on her way, aside from the immediate issue of getting her off the sidewalk, and don't want to make things worse. Thanks for any advice you can give!

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u/AllYouCanEatBarf — 18 days ago