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I'm going to be spending a lot of time and money this summer building a new tank for my two bearded dragons, roughly 2' x 2' x 6' and I'd like to have a water fall and with a steam pond kinda thing. I'm sure it's workable, but I'm really not too smart on drainage, filters, and pumps. Just curious if any one was a guru of that sort of thing and could give me some advice. Seen some custom fish tanks with drainage and what not, but again, not too smart on it and need some one to draw pictures in crayon for me to understand, can shoot me an instant message or email me, any help would be excellent, thank you.

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Ray
1.2.9 Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 Tokay Gecko
0.1.1 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 Emperor Scorpion

The only problem I see with your plans is that the waterfall / water pool would raise the humidity in the enclosure too much.
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Lisa
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Hmmm.... well #1 is you don't need or want much water as to much could lead to mould, fungi and such in the enclosure.

and that could lead to the BD's getting very sick and perhaps worse than that.....

there are commercial "waterfalls" designed for frogs and humidity needed herps.... but I'm not sure how much use they would be for your dragons.

one idea to think of would be the "drip" lines I have seen for other tree dewlling herps.

perhaps a basin and a drip line and a rock that could hide the drip line.
the water flow would be only just enough for the dragons to notice the driping, and just enough for any viewers to enjoy it.

perhaps a cup of water a day?
hide a plastic bottle in the top of the rocks, hang a short line so it could drip out slowly.

idealy make it so that when you look in you just see a bit of water coming from a crack between two rocks, and dripping onto a rock just above the catch basin at the bottom.

like desert would have on the edge of an oasis.
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Would the dripping water encurage a BD to drink? I was thinking of doing something like dripping water onto a rock (and draining it into a bowl) but wasn't sure if the movement would help with their water intake.

Thanks,

Joe

Both of mine drink regularily from a large water dish I have in their cage, one of them actually bathes in it rather frequently, seems to have a grand ole time doing it.
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Ray
1.2.9 Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 Tokay Gecko
0.1.1 Bearded Dragon
0.0.1 Emperor Scorpion

i seen a link somewhere in here last week that showed a cage where the guy made the custom rock formation(sorry i can't find the link anywhere...)

basically he/she used a pump you would use to run a pond. it's a really small one though. the pump my dad uses it sits under water... the one the guy used looked like it doesn't sit under water like it had 1 tube that went from the pool of water into the pump them pumped it up to the top of the tank, and it ran down the rock formation he made, then dumped back into the pool.

i'm thinking of using this similar idea. maybe have it run just a few hours aday... or just when company comes over or something. here's what i'm thinking though. some how figure out a filter. so it's always being filtered out. i'll continue to look for the link it was a very nice set up.