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I own a pair of water dragons, one male one female. They had out grown their original enclosure of 6'x3'x3'. So I decided to build a new one, and one of better quaility. I've just finished building it. I still have to get water in the pond and the pump and fountain hooked up and running, and also have to get the big apple mister system setup, of course a few touch ups with greenery and decorations. I need to build a few shelves for their sleeping caves, my dragons love to sleep in those little artifical caves.

The enclosure is 8' tall, 8' wide, and almost 4' wide. The pond in the bottom is a peanut shaped 33 gallon preformed plastic pond from lowes.

Hey,
I have to say it's about time. There are so many good people on this site. I can't get over how people don't think that water dragons need big cages. I have 3- my baby male lives in 8x7x4, my females each have 6x4x3. I keep them all seperate my two female are different personalitys and my Eternity(rescue) is only now taming down.

For all of you who know me I lost Sebastian my large male waterdragon last month. He was between 9-12 years old. We were able to get enough courage to do a necropsy. He was in perfect health except he had a damaged liver that has regrown itself,he had bad scaring on his lungs,intestines from flukes. They also found fluke eggs on his intestines whick never showed up in his fecals. He had blood work done in the past and x-rays and he was believed to be in perfect health. They found gram-positive bacteria in his lungs which was rare at best. They said at some point he had a very ruff life. He also had calcification on his right shoulder and hip which we knew from the x-rays a year ago. I only had the pleasure of this angel for 2 years. I'm also sorry for posting this here but I am still to emotional to do a private post. My guys are lucky I only wish that Sebastian had had a better life before me.

Again sorry for the post but i wanted to add this somewhere happy. I hope that there are people that are new to this forum learning from those of us with experience. Please give your waterdragon as big a cage as possible. You can't build it to big they will thank you for it. You can see pictures of Sebastian on webshots under "wd lady"

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