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Here is my water dragon enclosure....my fiancee's father built it for us, and she altered my plans without telling me. Doing so caused some headaches. lol...

The cage is 5 1/2 feet long, 5 1/2 feet tall, and 3 feet deep. It houses my 28" male.

The pool is a large sweater box, cleaned daily or more by first netting out debris, removing water with a python water changer, then removed and washed out. It's a pain!

The substrate is outdoor carpeting covered by terrarium moss....the plant is plastic and now almost falling apart from the now heavy WD.

I personally don't like the colors she chose to use...perhaps I can re-paint it sometime. The acrylic doors are scratched, so nothing will fix that besides replacing it.

Then, when we moved it did not fit inside the house...we had to cut it in half. Now 2 X 4's support the middle.

-Zeb

The exterior shot.

looks great... only thing i would do would be to add more plants .

alissa

Its very nice, but I would add a lot more branches, especially some with a diameter of 2-3 x the body diameter of your lizard for climbing. Otherwise the WD can´t use much of the space.
For the same reason I would add a fake rock or a bark backwall. This gives squaremeters of additional usable surface.
Last not least a couple of live plants would make a reasonable addition.

Ci@o

Ingo

Well, he's already trashed all the live plants. The fake branches I had he ended up tearing up, too.

This summer we were planning on making a back wall of either styrofoam replica rock or just adding alot of cork bark with adhesive. But, again, because of a recent move coming up...and not knowing how the cage will travel...I'm reluctant to take on such a project.