Green and brown Green anole
The same animal, at different times. Green when warm, settled and displaying; brown when cold, stressed or subordinate.
Why it happens
- Where it comes from
- This is not caused by a gene. It happens during the animal's own development, before it hatches.
- What that means for breeding
- It cannot be bred for, no pairing makes it more likely, and it does not pass to the offspring.
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
Green and brown is not inherited — it arises during development rather than from a gene, so it cannot be bred for and no pairing makes it more likely.
Worth knowing. A brown green anole is not a different animal or a different morph — it is a cold or stressed one, and it will turn green again. An anole kept permanently brown is usually being kept too cold or is under stress from a tank-mate, so the colour is worth reading as information about husbandry rather than about the lizard's identity.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.