Boring boring cage

hey,
check this site out.
http://members.shaw.ca/dragons4/vivarium.htm
I would take a bunch of water out and just lay the entire thing with dirt. have a bucket buy glass and put it half way between the cage, 6-8inch high, cauke it up with clear silicone. take a piece of glass, 4 inches, 6-8 inches high, cauke it up with silicone and stick it in a corner. same at the other end, sept 6-8 inches long. take rocks and stick it near the glass to make it more realistic, add a rubber rock wall out of a mold, then finally I would add plants. if you have a hard time understanding this, lemme know and I will show you a drawing.
thanks much,
Craig Condon
herps.exoinverts.com

Yeha I think there is def way too much water in there? is that a water dragon, looks like it. It might like a few lore little branches and things to sit on and something even just some cork bark laid against the wall as a hide.

Thats an unreal idea. Just got to figure out what substrate to use. Thinking of chipbark. It will look much nicer to. Do you know how often you have to change the substrate? The dragon will not poop on the land (she only goes in the water), just worried about a large build up of bactera or something.

Thanks for your help!

Bark chips is what I use, in my gallery you can see a few pics of my basilisk enclosure (they have pretty much the same needs). I'd use bark to make up msot of the enclosure and then have a cat litter tray of some size to hold the water with using this you'd be able to easily clean the water out once a week and put fresh in there as I do. The substrate should be changed every few months atleast as well as being spot cleaned. She may start using the floor to poop once you take away a large chunk of the water and go both in water and on land. Let us know how the enclosure gets on and ask any more questions ;-) I've not looked at the page suggested for an enclosure, but the way I do wioth the cat litter tray makes it very easy to clean the water, altho you won't have the glass sides to be able to see yer water dragon under water :(

hey,
if the water dragon poops in the water, you can get a special bacteria that is used for turtles. I use it for mine when i dont wanna clean their cage. it keeps the amonia levels down (poop level) and it will keep your cage clean and smell free.

craig condon

Altho with such a mass of still water being pooped in and stuff it should really be cleaned once every week, I never leave more than 10 days between changing the water.

i clean the water one a year! :P and only clean about 40% of it.. and the water stays clean. When you have a large amount of water, you dont have to clean it as often (i useto clean my old tank about once a week).

oh by the way..i got a huge ehiem canister filter underneth!..cost more then the tank :( hehe

I hope that cannister filter could be used with a much and i mean MUCH smaller amount of water such as like I said a cat litter tray full, all they need is just enough to submerse 3 quarters of their body (Depth) and should be able to sit its body in there comfortably, so a cat litter tray is a nice size. Because that viv really does have way too much water, its more an aqauriaum than a viv lo. I meant that with the amount of water I have it should be cleaned once every week to stop the build up of bacteria which can happen very quick in a small stagnant area of water in a hot viv. Even though water dragons are called water dragons they don't like to spend most of their time in water and need lots of branches, plants, rocks, ledges, climbing space etc to be happy as they are arboreal animals.

i see what you mean. If you line the bottom of the tank with 6-8 inches of meat and moss and add live plants such as chinese evergreens, philodendroms, ficus and spider plants. also put the water section into a corer and silocone. add rocks in the water to give a good effect. then add a fogger which will help raise the humidity and make your tank look like a jungle setup. good luck.

try www.poison-frogs.com. this will help you in plant and setup selection

I assume you mean peat and moss herptrav7986 ;-) lol, not sure if meat has often been used as a good substrate hehehehe, but the foggers a really good idea, I keep meaning to get one but have enough electrical sockets being used up by my enclosures at the moment as it is lo.

I would take a lot of the water out, switch the preportoins, or just put a lot of branches and stuff over the water, but just get a lot more land in there, is there any sort of lighting in there for UVB...?