Hi guys,
Don't worry I'm not planning on getting a caiman (yet). JK, for a long long time.
What have people successfully kept dwarves with? I've seen things like turtles, vine snakes in the land section, pacu, large catfish, rays, etc in with dwarf caimans.
What if you did something like @LepisoeteusPlatyrhinhus 's build, except the ponds were custom made by placing down foam blocks, then rebar, then concrete, then fiberglass, then paint. There could still be 2 ponds, they could just be bigger (his enclosure is 13x10 with 2 feet of depth for the ponds). This way you could still have the amazing land section, but you would be able to attempt to keep fish, as well as get an underwater/side view of the caimans. I would stock it with:
-1 cuvier's dwarf caiman
-Green anoles, bahamas anoles, house geckos, and long tailed lizards running around freely and breeding
-An emerald tree boa
-Smaller stuff like pill bugs, crickets, dubia roaches, and, if the enclosure was sealed well enough, some flies (not a lot though)
-Green and grey tree frogs
-Some kind of fish, I'd keep it separate for each pond; the ponds couldn't be too big or the land section wouldn't be big enough to support the lizards; what would you all do for fish? I'm struggling to think of anything, pretty much anything would be an expensive feeder in the water
-A belize slider
-Something for the land; a pair of green basilisks, or even just one would complete an awesome, (almost) Amazon biotope
Anything else?What would you do differently?
Don't worry I'm not planning on getting a caiman (yet). JK, for a long long time.
What have people successfully kept dwarves with? I've seen things like turtles, vine snakes in the land section, pacu, large catfish, rays, etc in with dwarf caimans.
What if you did something like @LepisoeteusPlatyrhinhus 's build, except the ponds were custom made by placing down foam blocks, then rebar, then concrete, then fiberglass, then paint. There could still be 2 ponds, they could just be bigger (his enclosure is 13x10 with 2 feet of depth for the ponds). This way you could still have the amazing land section, but you would be able to attempt to keep fish, as well as get an underwater/side view of the caimans. I would stock it with:
-1 cuvier's dwarf caiman
-Green anoles, bahamas anoles, house geckos, and long tailed lizards running around freely and breeding
-An emerald tree boa
-Smaller stuff like pill bugs, crickets, dubia roaches, and, if the enclosure was sealed well enough, some flies (not a lot though)
-Green and grey tree frogs
-Some kind of fish, I'd keep it separate for each pond; the ponds couldn't be too big or the land section wouldn't be big enough to support the lizards; what would you all do for fish? I'm struggling to think of anything, pretty much anything would be an expensive feeder in the water
-A belize slider
-Something for the land; a pair of green basilisks, or even just one would complete an awesome, (almost) Amazon biotope
Anything else?What would you do differently?
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