After owning and keeping Chinese water dragons for over 7 years I finally got a chance to get an Australian water dragon. She’s a baby captive breed and I get her next week super excited I’ve always wanted one. Great video👍
My female Australian Water Dragon spazzed at first and jumped into a light fixture repeatedly, losing some teeth. But then she eventually calmed down. Now she will eat out of my hand and sometimes I can gently nudge her under the chin. I don't really hold her but I have cats in my house so that is part of why I haven't tried. I find her easy to care for. The set up is a pain, but the nice thing is they always go to the bathroom in the water container. So you just clean that every week or two and the rest of the enclosure stays pretty clean. Overall except for the start it has been low maintenance.
These are awesome lizards Andrew! I first worked with this species in 2017 when I was working at my friends facility (ours came from a breeder in Portugal before the laws came into effect on importing/exporting Aussie species). You'll have a lot of fun with them! They will eat ANYTHING and seem to have a wider palette than the Asian water dragons. Looking forward to seeing more!
They are pretty cool. shame about the law tho! Hopefully things can change surrounding that. Thanks for the comment Bro! You thinking about getting one?
@@andrewsreptileark not in the near future. if I got some I'd want to breed them, and to do that they need to hibernate (similar to tegus), so I'd wanna do an outdoor greenhouse of some sort so they could drop into the high 30's F to low 40's F and bury themselves then warm up to the summer period I have here in MN. For now I'll keep sticking with the Chinese water dragons and the new and upcoming sailfin dragons which I can cycle indoors via wet/dry seasons and appropriate food cycling.
After owning and keeping Chinese water dragons for over 7 years I finally got a chance to get an Australian water dragon. She’s a baby captive breed and I get her next week super excited I’ve always wanted one. Great video👍
They look stunning! Please do an update video as I have one as well but no matter what I try I just can't tame him.
My female Australian Water Dragon spazzed at first and jumped into a light fixture repeatedly, losing some teeth. But then she eventually calmed down. Now she will eat out of my hand and sometimes I can gently nudge her under the chin. I don't really hold her but I have cats in my house so that is part of why I haven't tried. I find her easy to care for. The set up is a pain, but the nice thing is they always go to the bathroom in the water container. So you just clean that every week or two and the rest of the enclosure stays pretty clean. Overall except for the start it has been low maintenance.
Hi Andrew, I have a question about what distance should be between uvb 10.0 bullb and basking zone for turtle. Thank you
Hi Andrew
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These are awesome lizards Andrew! I first worked with this species in 2017 when I was working at my friends facility (ours came from a breeder in Portugal before the laws came into effect on importing/exporting Aussie species).
You'll have a lot of fun with them! They will eat ANYTHING and seem to have a wider palette than the Asian water dragons.
Looking forward to seeing more!
They are pretty cool. shame about the law tho! Hopefully things can change surrounding that.
Thanks for the comment Bro! You thinking about getting one?
@@andrewsreptileark not in the near future.
if I got some I'd want to breed them, and to do that they need to hibernate (similar to tegus), so I'd wanna do an outdoor greenhouse of some sort so they could drop into the high 30's F to low 40's F and bury themselves then warm up to the summer period I have here in MN.
For now I'll keep sticking with the Chinese water dragons and the new and upcoming sailfin dragons which I can cycle indoors via wet/dry seasons and appropriate food cycling.