African Violets and Gesneriads: October Blooms, Part 3, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
hmm ... I'm getting ready to clean out my 10 gal aquarium/terrarium in the next couple of weeks, so I will need something new to put in there. I really need to clean it out because a fern has taken over one entire side and other a few plants are growing so tall they bend when they reach the top. I also have a little "friend" who needs to be released outside!

We have hundreds of those cute little Anole lizards and sometimes I find eggs on shelves and in flower pots out on the deck. The eggs look just like little beads of perlite! A couple of years ago I found one and thought it was perlite, it broke between my fingers and that's when I realized exactly what it was! There was a perfectly formed baby lizard in there. I felt so bad that I had broken that little egg and that baby was not going to be born. I buried it in one of my plants. I'm always rescuing the little guys from one of our cats. One time I got one from one of the cats and I thought it was dead. I held it, petting it and telling it I was so sorry the cat killed it. After a couple of minutes I thought it moved ... then it just laid in my hand and I thought, yeah, whishful thinking! But a couple of minutes later I actually saw it breathing, then a little foot moved ... finally it started wriggling and I sat it on the brick wall and within a couple more minutes it took off and jumped onto a plant! When I told my husband later that day that I had resuscitated a little lizard, he laughed so hard I thought he was going to fall off the chair!

Oh gosh ... I'm rambling - anyway, when I found this little egg a couple of months ago I dropped it into the back right hand corner of the terrarium! Two days later I looked and it was gone. I told my husband I couldn't figure out what happened to it ... I went rooting around and didn't find it anywhere. Forgot about it and then about two or three days after that all of a sudden I see this teensy little lizard running around the plants! I named her "Lucy Lizard" and we catch moths outside by the porch light every night to feed her! LOL. I know ... I'm a bit wacky!

I just took a picture ... not great but here's "Lucy"