They eat lettuce, spinach, fruits, dandelions, cucumber, crickets, mice, lean steak, canned dog food, and canned lizard foods. Like bearded dragons, bluetongues are Australian lizards that are now regularly bred in the United States. The New Guinea species tends to be nasty when handled and may bite hard. Big skinks may grow to 25-inches. There are several species in the pet market, the best for beginners being the brown or bark anole, which is imported from Florida.
Anoles live in and on trees, shrubs and leafy bushes in fairly humid habitats.
Be sure to spray them with water 2 - 3 times a day, and feed them small insects, such as crickets, mealworms, waxworms, flies, moths, etc. Offer them some variety, as no insect food is going to be nutritious enough by itself for a healthy anole. Male anoles have a flap of skin under the throat called a dewlap, usually some shade of red or orange. They display these dewlaps when trying to find a mate or frighten an enemy. Brown anoles need a basking site near the light bulb, but they also need a lot of shade in the terrarium.