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Getting a 65 gallon reptrium and it seems that knight anolis and tree dragons have similar care requirments. Is there anything i dont know that can possibly prevent these two from being together? Also are tree dragons hard to care for lizards. Ive had a couple of species of lizards and amphibians before.

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Hi,

first IMHO opinion a 65 g reptarium is neither good for knight anoles nor for tree dragons.
It does not keep humidity as well as required and is significantly too small for knight anoles or larger Gonocephalus species.
For both I wouzld recommend a minimum height of 4 ft.
For larger Gonocephalus species like grandis or bellii, you also should go for a tank of at least 200g.
If you never kept Tree dragons before, you should not try to mix them with anything.
Gonocephalus are more stress sensitive than most other lizards and most imports are close to death.
They need very careful acclimatization and often have a high parasite load.
So nothing for beginners.
The most frequently impoirted species are G. chamaeleontinus (pic..oöld pic of one of my males) and G. grandis.
From my expereinces, G. bellii are among the more robust ones and easier to establish than most of the others. G. kuhilii are very srtress sensitive and the others are somewhere in between.
For G. chamaelontinus imports males are often in a much worse shape than females.

Hope that helps

Ingo

what would you suggest for a 65 gallon then? (I posted this in lizards general forum about just a knight anole and got ok for a 65 gallon knight anole.)

65 g in general or 65 g reptarium?
Mesh cages are good for sme herps, but nor for many.
So if you stick to the reptarium I would recommend to go for a montane species.
That may include emerald swifts or Japalura splendida or montane chameleon species.
Buut all of these are more for the experienced herper.
Knight anoles survive eecasdes in small cages-but they become very immobile and do not move a lot.
In bigger cages, their behaviour is quite differetn and I think thats argument enough to ay, 65 g is NOT enough.
Also the height of this reptarims does really not fit to bigger arboreal species.

Ci@o

Ingo

we have a high humididity in the room that whatever we use would be put in. Could a smaller rainforest species work?
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