got a baby chinese water dragon!

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syddakyd

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hes in a 125g paludarium. the water is filtered and heated. i am going to drop a bunch of guppies to live/breed/feed him.

all the plants are real to provide natural filtration as well.

there is also a haitain curlytail and green anole in there to provide stimulation lol.

he is already hand feeding on the second day. very outgoing. i drop in freeze dried crickets in the water and he goes in after them.
i am going to get alot of "bugs" to add variety to his diet and the occasional pinky as well.
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here he is washing his face after a meal.

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chillen!

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tank shot.

the tank is not done yet. there is a reptile show by my house next week and i plan to pick up more plants....fake rock things that glue to the glass, jungle vines...and whatever.!




if he is a male...he will at most be 3 feet with 2/3's of that being tail so i am not worried about tank size one bit. i may build up though with a DIY cage topper for this tank.


oh yea..there is also a "dirt box" on the far right for him to dig/lay eggs if a female.
 
thanks. i came home today with the anole sitting on top of the tank i was like um wtf! there is a slight opening i have to seal. im glad the anole showed this to me although it is still smaller then the dragon...i cant risk the dragon getting out. my cat will pop it in a second lol
 
That looks amazing, a great amount of thought obviously went into the design. Any chance of some bigger full-tank shots? I can't make out much detail on that one, I'd love to see it bigger!

Great work, the way it should be done :)

Paul
 
when i take pics with my cell and send them to my email...now they come out thumb-nailed sized. i don't know why this is happening or how i can change the setting. this is only a recent thing that has been happening. i used to have to down size the photos because they were ridiculously large.
 
i cant figure out how to make the photos bigger when i email them to myself. they used to come out normal sized. wtf is this.

anyways...he always washes off after i feed him lol. they definitely use the water area if setup naturally and not just a pyrex bowl with an inch of water.
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