Well I finally finished up the new Australian Water Dragon Habitat!! I put in acrylic front with screen on top (for summer) and I have new acrylic panels to cover the screen for winter. I added plants, thermostat(@74-76deg) etc.. to the 60 gal. pond, 7 nozzles total on the misting machine set to run every hour for 3-5 minute durations. I have 2 Zoomed 160w Mercury Vapor lights, 1 ZM 150w and 1 100w halogen basking lights, with an extra for misc bulbs as needed. Almost all the plants are real except the fake ivy vines. I used Pacific NW driftwood from the local beaches and fallen Maple branches for the wood decor.
Currently the temps are staying around 75 (@ground level)on the cool end and 90 on the hot end (pond side). I have 2 baseboard heaters on thermostats that warm the greenhouse at night. The humidity is keeping around 55% which I’d like to get higher on an automatic basis, right now I do it manually by watering down the rocks I placed in front. OK... this is too long here’s some pics. For the complete set of larger pics of the entire process Click Here
MrGreen!!
