I used to keep my Green Iguana (my fave liz to this day)in an outside enclosure with tortoise, albino Bullfrogs a pond and live tree. It worked fine, but my tortoises were rainforest critters as are Iguanas. You would be combinding a arid animal with a tropical one. Outside enclosures are a world of fun and very interesting when you can have aquatic, two dimensional, and three dimensional animals living together. Maybe you could find a ared tree lizard or tropical tortoises. Then again maybe you could make an Oasis environment! Now that would be too cool! There is a box turtle in Mexico that lives in a very small Oasis in the middle of the desert. Ive never seen in done in a man made environment but I bet there is a zoo somewhere that has. See if you can talk to Collett Adams at the Brownsville Zoo. Here in Florida we have Oak ridges, where the pine forest/wetland stop and the high and dry start. It was always the best of both worlds to collect reptiles. One side a aquatic mud snake and on the other side of the streem a Coachwhip! I might have talked myself into building one now!! GOOD LUCK. Vic

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