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im looking to get another male beacuse mine died, and was wondering could i build like a 6' l by 3' w by 3' high cage for a 1.2 of breaded dragons, to keep in there year round with like cooling off pd and ever thing,

i would have 2 basking sites 2/3 food dishes
1 ft of sand/dirt/soil mix so when they lay eggs i dont have 2 mve them into an egg laying tub
branches
rocks
3 hides

could i do this or no good

as for the 2 post
i no i no
substrate

my vet told me not to use anything small enough they could swollow, i use sand on my bds tho and they love digging in in and playing around in it
so is there a bigger thing that looks natural that i could use

thanks

Though the cage you are thinking of building is plenty big enough for three adult dragons, it isn't recommended to house males with females year around. They may not get along and one or more may suffer from having the others in the tank, either by not eating, stressing out and getting parasites. It would be better to build 2-3 cages and house the male separately from the females and maybe the females individually as well. You can intruduce the male to breed then take him out again.

It isn't a good ideal to leave the eggs in the cage with the dragons, best to buy or build an incubator to maintain the temperatures and humidity needed to hatch them out properly.

A larger substrate to use in the tank that is large enough not to get swollowed would be non stick shelf liner, plastic table cloth, reptile carpet, paper towel or newsprint. You an make a sand box for the dragons to dig and play in, just make it out of wood or use a shallow rubbermaid container and place it at one end of the cage. This way there is little chance of sand getting ingested with food ro from the dragon 'tasting' his territory.
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