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Old 06-06-2006, 02:08 AM
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Fresh Water Shrimp

Hey.I own two sailfin lizards and I am thinking of owning waterdragons and basilisks in the future but I still don't know how to breed fresh water shrimp.I know many people never feed fresh water animals such as shrimp and fish to their basilisks or waterdragons but I find a diet mainly of cockroaches,silk worms, mealworms, and crickets very unnatural because these are semiaquatic lizards.Does anybody here know how to breed fresh water shrimp?
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Old 06-06-2006, 04:15 PM
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I dont know how to breed fresh water shrimp, but I have attempted to feed them to my Chinese Water Dragon, 2 turned them down and my male atleast tasted one and spit it back out LOL. You can feed them pinkeys as 40% of their diet, as whole prey is a very important part of their diets
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Old 06-11-2006, 08:46 AM
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Hi.I am still not yet sure about adding pinkies to their diet yet.Are they supposed to be high in fat?A few sailfin lizard owners told me they are.When you say that I can feed my lizards pinkeys as 40% of their diet do you mean that I can add them to their 40% diet of whole prey or simply make pinkeys 40% of their diet.
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Old 06-15-2006, 07:01 PM
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Hehehe, I had a hard time even getting my Chinese Water Dragon to eat feeder fish! first she couldn't catch them, so she lost interest. (Bonked her head a bit too much:P ) Now she's at the stage where she'll eat almost anything from my fingers, so I gave her a fish that way -and just like mshrm's male WD with the shrimp, mine chomped on the thing and spat it out across the tank! Poor fish, I tried to get Heebee to eat it twice but it was a no go.

So it would seem *snickers* that WATER dragons don't like fish? O_o; Well, all dragons are different, but at least some of them appear not to like 'em. I've seen pictures of water dragons happily chowing down on feeder fish, like comets, though.
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