Adult housing

[GFdragon]

just wondering how breeders house their adult dragons since im sure there are a lot of them required for breeding and are they all living in 40 gallon tanks?

 

[WestCoastDragons]

Lots of enclosures!
There are a few shots of some of our setup here:
http://www.westcoastdragons.com/Photo%20Gallery.html

Edit: To clarify, all of our adult breeders are currently housed in 60-70 gallon sized enclosures. When acceptable, we house two or more females together. The divided enclosures are used for multiple or older juveniles and the small ones for hatchlings.

 

[whitehotdragons]

If you have lots of breeders, then be prepared for lots of enclosures indeed. We keep several types of "adult" enclosures.

We keep our adult males in tanks at least 55 gallon in size individually. Our females are kept in home made enclosure that are 5 ft wide, 3 foot deep, and 3 foot high. We stack two of these enclosures on top of one another. Since they open from the front, they are easily accessed with a small step ladder We have multiple levels in those enclosures and at least two large basking areas as well as multiple hides and feeding areas. We keep three adult females per enclosure.

Those females who are either not age appropriate or too submissive/dominate are kept in individual tanks of at least 40 gallon size. When our females are gravid and near laying date, we give them an individual enclosure that houses a "lay bin". We also maintain quarentine tanks (which are really just large rubbermaid tubs) for sick or dragons under observation.

 

[GFdragon]

Thanks for the info guys! I'm actually only planning on breeding one male and one female together, probably sometime june or july of next year, possibly a few months earlier. We have two metal racks right now, would that be enough for two 40 gallons and the babies? Thanks again for the help!

 

[whitehotdragons]

Thanks for the info guys! I'm actually only planning on breeding one male and one female together, probably sometime june or july of next year, possibly a few months earlier. We have two metal racks right now, would that be enough for two 40 gallons and the babies? Thanks again for the help!

Perhaps, it depends on how large of a bin you plan on keeping your babies in. We only house three babies per 30 gallon bin which takes up three shelves on our rack. Thats three bins per shelf. The clutches can be 25-30 eggs each.