waterfalls

[mistybugs]

I was wondering does anyone have a waterfall in their enclosures? If you do do you recemmend them or not agree with them?

 

[Twobeardieguy]

I would not recommend putting one in because it will raise the humidity to high. To high of humidity leads to upper respiratory infections. Hope this helped.

 

[Jess]

Agreed.
But if you like the look of it, you could just put in the waterfall with out hooking up the water and pump. Thats what I did with a hermit crabs- I got this huge awesome waterfall, but I was scared they would drown... So I just used it as a climbing decoration, and they loved it.

 

[mistybugs]

The only reason that I considered it was because she will not drink still water. I do mist her and bath her and she drinks a little but not much at all. She also does not eat her veggies so I am afraid of her getting dehydrated. Do you think that it would be ok to put it in the tank use it as a water dish and only tur it on for like 15 minutes a day a couple times a day? I would like all the input that everyone has on this because I really get worried about dehydration. I am not having any problems with her right now that I can tell. No odd behaviors or anything like that I just want to prevent it before it happens.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Misty your dragon will get hydrated through ether bathing by taking water in through the vent of from her bugs. You can also drip water on her nose when giving a bath. Another thing you can do is flood the greens in water or dip the bugs in water prior to feeding them. Hope this helped.

 

[mistybugs]

That does help thank you. I just hear how easy it for them to get repiratory infections and really do not want her to get one. Thank you very much for your input.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

The URI come from high humidity conditions and they can also come from taking your dragon wet into a cold or cool room. There are other reasons they can get an URI but are not common. But you can leave a lid of water in the viv and that should balance things out.