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I have an aussi right now and he's in a temp tank (75 gallons) and I just got an enormous aquarium for him for Christmas and was wondering if I could put water on the bottom. I was thinking 4-5ish inches of water with tons of huge driftwood pieces and fake plants, branches... lots of stuff for him to climb on. Would that make it too wet? could I just put him in it and see if it works?

I have seen this done with a WD before and the person had that lizard for 8 years. I was thinking, if that is too much water I could just put a plastic bin in with gravel (to make it sink) and wood, for him to sleep on or something? and for the crix to hand out.

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You can not have too much water.
The only thing essential is that the animal needs enough dry (!) places for basking and resting and a corner with enough substrate to burrow itself completely.

omg that tank is amazing! i'm officially jelous. thats what i thought about the water, but i asked some other people and they seemed to think that there was too much water so i got cold feet... anyway, thanks so much for the reply, and happy herping!
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RES
WTF
FBT
Russian Tortoise
Hingeback tortoise
Leos
Lawsons Dragon
Aussi
Ocelot Gecko
0.0.3 Vietnamese Mossy Treefrogs
Oregon Newt
Japanese FBN
American Bullfrog
0.0.4 D. tinctorius
D. auratus
D. leucomelas
1.1D. imitator
0.0.2 imitator intermedius
1.1.1D. lamasi
Grandis Day Gecko
Mali Uro
0.0.4 Hourglass Treefrogs
Conehead lizard
Painted Turtle
Hedgehog, bunnies, dog, fish, crawfish...