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I've had a beautiful asian water dragon for some time now, and just recently caught her doing something I've never noticed before.
After a meal, she will go into her water pan and submerse herself and start moving under the water in a way that I can only describe as bathing herself?
She'll move around and scratch her head/eyes. Move her body around, get all the dirt off, relax a bit in her water and then bask for a bit.

She is mite free/parasite free.
Eats well, temps and humidity are correct and is just an all around awesome lizard.
The only thing I can think, is that from time to time she likes to dig/burrow around in her cage and her substrate is a mixture of peat moss and aspen shavings, so she gets REALLY dirty (mainly peat moss, but some aspen mixed in to make it more of a mulch consistency).
Could it be she's cleaning herself?
(also her meal was quite messy. I feed her S.A. roaches that I breed myself. When she feeds it's like guts galore around her mouth/face. but she definitly doesn't seem to mind.)

Any thoughts?
Thanks
Charlotte

She is just shedding, as their skin gets ready to shed it gets dry and itchy, so it feels good to soak and scratch as it.
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mine has a tendency to do this even when she isnt shedding, usually when i'm misting the cage. she likes to run out infront of the spray bottle and get right in the mist and start scratching her head. i dont see any problems with it as the humidity in the cage is good and she doesnt hurt her eyes. i just wrote it off as one of those querky CWD things.