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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 10:01:00 GMT -5
Lounging lizards ready to rumble.  Are these basilisk lizards? I'm going by the top crest on their heads, I usually see them as green. Green Anoles (Anolis carolinensis)The crested one, a male, is displaying to prove his manhood...  Basilisk is an amazing lizard, but very different.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 10:06:13 GMT -5
those Anoles are always doing the manhood thing. like Payton Place.
wealth of bugs keeps them feeding right in front of you.
not sure whom is in the terrarium.
Bassilisk is totally cool
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Post by Erich on Jul 22, 2016 10:08:15 GMT -5
Ah, okay, the photo makes them seem fairly large to me. You feel they are the small Green Anole. Where I live - Boca Raton, Fl.- the common Brown Anole has almost annihilated the Green Anole. Used to see the greens a lot 20 years ago but now they're rare in my area. Seen once in maybe 2-3 years.
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Post by captbob on Jul 22, 2016 10:10:22 GMT -5
The lady that has all the corals, collected by her grandfather, that I go see is on Lake Kerr. That lake is extremely overgrown and needs a good cleaning out. She has a dock, but there is absolutely no way you could put a boat in there. Gotta ask why you haven't built a structure for your johnny? Gotta suck if you can't wait during a hard rain. Soggy Charmin probably doesn't work so well. James on the throne holding an umbrella  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 10:59:27 GMT -5
The lady that has all the corals, collected by her grandfather, that I go see is on Lake Kerr. That lake is extremely overgrown and needs a good cleaning out. She has a dock, but there is absolutely no way you could put a boat in there. Gotta ask why you haven't built a structure for your johnny? Gotta suck if you can't wait during a hard rain. Soggy Charmin probably doesn't work so well. James on the throne holding an umbrella Deep water comes at a cost. about half of Kerr has shallow weedy fronts. Lake is crystal clear, 28 feet deep at deepest i think. Open toilet ? Keeps the friend's whining wives away. Always fussing about skeeters and bugs.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 11:00:08 GMT -5
Ah, okay, the photo makes them seem fairly large to me. You feel they are the small Green Anole. Where I live - Boca Raton, Fl.- the common Brown Anole has almost annihilated the Green Anole. Used to see the greens a lot 20 years ago but now they're rare in my area. Seen once in maybe 2-3 years. guessing the brown one is introduced Erich ? |
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Post by Rockoonz on Jul 22, 2016 11:11:10 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing us along James, great photos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 14:13:43 GMT -5
Ah, okay, the photo makes them seem fairly large to me. You feel they are the small Green Anole. Where I live - Boca Raton, Fl.- the common Brown Anole has almost annihilated the Green Anole. Used to see the greens a lot 20 years ago but now they're rare in my area. Seen once in maybe 2-3 years. guessing the brown one is introduced Erich ? Yeah introduce from Cuba if memory serves. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 14:17:31 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing us along James, great photos. Yes Lee, good for you mountain folks to see what flat landers experience. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 14:20:22 GMT -5
guessing the brown one is introduced Erich ? Yeah introduce from Cuba if memory serves. They keep track of the timing of hurricanes and various orchid germinations years later in the everglades. Seeds get carried from distant lands. Suppose reptiles could blow in too. Certainly that lizard was introduced. |
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Post by captbob on Jul 22, 2016 14:21:17 GMT -5
I need a tractor!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 14:27:44 GMT -5
Black plecostomus in Lake George and Lake Rodman.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 14:29:46 GMT -5
I got one and no such luck. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 22, 2016 14:33:19 GMT -5
Map of Ocala Nat Forest and proximity to Atlantic Ocean.  |
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Post by Erich on Jul 22, 2016 20:34:50 GMT -5
Yeah, the brown is a Cuban immigrant but I like all reptiles. Until the big freeze about 6 years ago there were Iguanas all over the place. They would go in my pool and sit at my computer desk, had one walk into my front door once  . It's only now that they are slowly returning. I love them, they look like mini dinosaurs! Now we are getting over run with the "Curly tail lizard; www.wildflorida.com/wildlife/lizards/Curlytail_Lizard.php. They have been slowly moving north and reached us about 5 years ago. |
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Post by Erich on Jul 22, 2016 20:35:39 GMT -5
Damn, that's a big Pleco!
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Post by Pat on Jul 22, 2016 20:51:13 GMT -5
Lizards are CUTE!!
Don't think I've ever seen an ugly lizard.
While in college, son had pet lizard. Fredricka. Cute cute very small green one that fit in shirt pocket.
Was asked at plane check in what he had in box in shirt pocket.
Lizard.
They let him on plane. Can't leave small pet home alone for days.
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Post by herchenx on Jul 22, 2016 21:11:49 GMT -5
My kind of camp there Jim. Thanks for the pics and write up!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 23:01:44 GMT -5
I have fond Lake George memories. Gators in hand, legless lizards, 'dillo, moccasins and a huge bag of green treefrogs!
Hope to make more soon using all this fantastic knowledge shared here and elsewhere.
Thanks Jim! Hope you keep that few acreage you desire...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 23:08:02 GMT -5
Yeah introduce from Cuba if memory serves. They keep track of the timing of hurricanes and various orchid germinations years later in the everglades. Seeds get carried from distant lands. Suppose reptiles could blow in too. Certainly that lizard was introduced. I think the browns are pet trade escapees from 50's and early 60's before embargo. Soon the pet trade will get to see some real cool shit from Cuba. High end hobbyists have had them for 15 years via Germany. Anolis smallwoodi related to the Knight Anole currently found in Miami.  |
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. It's only now that they are slowly returning. I love them, they look like mini dinosaurs!
