Hey,

I have a home-made enclsoure for my chinese water dragon's and, I've noticed during the night it gets pretty close to 69 on the thermometer. Do I need to buy a ceramic heat bulb? I took some pictures of my two females iggy and zues. Zues went to the vet about 5 days ago and found out she had a big amount of parasites. I hope after the next visit she'll be good to go. Also if you notice shes had that bad shed over her nose for like 2 months, should that be something that I should just start trying to remove? Because I increased the humidity in there with the airstone and new filter, also I mist in there quite a bit, so I'm not sure if its the humidity now...

Here's iggy, my first chinese water dragon.





Here is some of their tank.



and heres zues, my 2nd chinese water dragon

Try to keep night time temps in the mid to upper sevenites
Very nice WD you have!
Try removing the shed with a qtip and warm water

Ill see if I can buy a small heater today to last for a few days until I get paid...and I will have to try that, it looks like her mouth is always cracked open...and I think its because of the shed over her nose

Do you have a far back photo of the whole enclosure? I would love to see it!

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

yeahh, its not that wide. The dimensions are 5ft tall x 4 ft long x 2 ft wide. I built it in about 4 hrs and it was my first build, so I doubt itll be their last enclousure!

an ariel view before I got that one flowering plant from my mother, i had to beggg for it

a view from the front left corner, still before the plant was there

heres a shot of the front right after I built it....the tank weighs close to 200 pounds

thats where the flowering plant is now situated

Thats a really nice enclosure you have!

It gets the job done for now....I was in a rush when building it and I had to make it fast, so I didnt stain or do anything to it besides measure once and cut once....and lets say some of the measurements are off I just cant wait till I make another one and take some timeee measuring and cutting and staining and protecting the wood...

That is what I was going to ask you about. That chipboard will rapidly deteriorate in the presence of moisture.
And if you didn't know already, the flower is a hibiscus.

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Thats a great amount of space! I bet they are happy.

For heating, i picked up a heat emitter from reptileuv and it works great. The outside doesn't get hot enough to burn you, its only 60 watt, but it produces enough heat to be a 120 watt. My critters love it.

Mega-Ray HP - 60 Watt Heat Projector - ReptileUV

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

yeah, ive already started to notice the wood soakinggg up moisture...SO I guess it will be the next cage I build, I'll probably start buying/building it monday or tuesday....And that heat bulb looks realll nice ill have to pick thattt one upp