(i need help putting together my tangerine's enclosure. what should be in there? he is about 2-3 ft long and is a 10 gal. tank right now, soon i will put him in a 20l tank. would he ike a bigger water bowl? more climbing space? more hiding space? any pics of enclosures? as of rightnow i have a rock house and a water bowl with aspen shavings. thanks for any help)



HI! I have a tangerine honduran also. "Zorro" was hatchted last year in July. He is 10 months old now and about 16-20 inches long. (That's a guess since he's hard to measure being all squirmy). I have mine in a 20 gallon long tank. I had him in a 10 gallon when he was little and he seemed so restless. So I moved him into a 20 soon after I bought him in September of last year. I have an under the tank heater. In side I use reptile bark and he has several hides and 2 water bowls. I put 2 water bowls in there since the natural rock one doesn't last long. The other one is actually a dog/cat dish that he can get under. He likes that.

I also have those rock looking hides. One on the warm side and one in the middle of the tank. One is big and the other is smaller. He also had a paper towel roll and a first aid box that I cut down to make a hide box out of. He loves that. Also have a couple of fake plants. Thats about it. Mine hides all the time so I don't have anything in there for him to climb on. And I suppose when he gets bigger I'll take some of the smaller hides out.

How is yours with handling? Zorro was very squirmy at first but has calmed down some. I try to handle him often. He is eating 2-3 fuzzies a week.

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