Does anyone keep crocodilians??

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Cai Man

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Well I am new to this site aside from browsing. I own a dwarf caiman, a red eared slider and a rose hair tarantula. I am currently in the conceptual stage of creating an enclosure for my caiman to grow out in. I am in an apartment now and am not going to be in a house for a couple of years. I would prefer to put good money into one that would be sectional to fit through the doorways, however if I cannot come up with a good concept than I would have to resort to builing a cost effective enclosure permanently indoors and tear it down when I moved. Any suggestions??? Also any pictures of your enclosures would be inspiration.
 
Hiya Cai man, welcome to MFK.
You might consider a hardwalled plastic stock trough as a temporary fix, they are fairly cheap and very sturdy, and can also be stood on end to move through doorways and are light enough that it doesn't take a whole crew to move them.
 
Thanks guppy. I was almost think of building a wooden platform around on of those preformed ponds, but that would be cheaper than the pond.
 
Welcome to the site. I've kept several varieties of crocs. I had a Curvier's dwarf caiman for quite some time. Loved that little guy. I got him as a hatchling and housed him in a 90 as a grow up enclosure. I had it set up 50/50 land and water. the water was deep enough in parts so he could swim, and shallow enough that he could just soak in other areas. I kept it stocked with food for him most of the time. I ran four 48" lights (two full spec and two "plant" lights for the veggitation) and a ceramic heater above a basking rock. He did quite well.
Sometime I'd like to get back into a larger species again. But that will have to wait for a new place to live first.

I'll see if I can find pics of him when I get off of work.
 
Rubbermaid has 300g ones available from $200-300 US that rae strong enough to sit on.
 
It depends on where you are for most species. Obviously, some are illegal everywhere. But alot of places seem to allow for smaller legal species.
 
Zoodiver has it right, some places outlaw all of them, some just the cites II ones.
 
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