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I was curious is anyone could tell me a good enclosure size for an adult caiman lizard female. I may buy one in the next month or two and I have done much research on them however I did not find anything on enclosure sizes. I know they really love to swim so I expect the enclosure to be 1/3 lad 2/3 water? With branches avaliable for climbing.

Anyway what I need to know is just the base needs of the enclosure size and water to land ratio of an adult caiman lizard. I inted on buying a baby however I want to know what I will need to happily house the adult. If you have had one or know the proper housing size please tell me the need dimensions need of the enclosure (L/W/D) ad the land to water ratio. Also how deep should the water be for the adult? I assume about 2-3 feet deep?

I know their diet, and that males get aroud 4 feet and females about 3 feet. I currently have a black throat monitor and know how to care for larger end monitors/tegus. Please dont tell me the "difficulty" of the lizards care, I already know. I just would like to know a good enclosure size for the caiman lizard.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Well this might not be what you expect to hear but Caiman Lizards are not has hard to keep as people have said. The new batch of farm raised ones are very similar to keeping a tegu.

To answer your question really fast, i would say 6 feet long, 3 feet wide and 4 feet tall in min for a female; ideally 8 long, 4 wide and 5 tall for one or two. I currently got a pair and I am looking to build one like that. As for water ratio, that is a coin flip really. Some people have had happy and healthy caiman lizards with a deep pond (2 feet or deeper). Others have had great luck with a large but shallow pound (kind of like how people set-up water monitors). I am looking to get a pond set-up in the cage, not too deep but also deep enough so they can completely submerge and dive.