Nice set up mate. I had a breeding pair living outdoors in Adelaide for years, and we would get a clutch of eggs every year. We even had 2 seasons where she laid her eggs outside and we had a bunch of hatchlings running around our backyard. Personally, I don't think you need a bask/heat lamp. If you let them hibernate through the cooler months they will develop a better cycle on their own. Artificial lighting/heating in an outdoor enclosure can mess with this cycle and make breeding more difficult. This is just from my experience though, you may have experienced differently.
Cheers for the advice mate, it’s mainly there as a precaution, I wouldn’t want a freezing cold summer day to affect them since I don’t have any natural heating hide like underground burrows etc
i thought about setting up outdoor lighting, do they need it and how to set it up so the rain wont get to cords or lighting?? any ideas /thoughts on this? or maybe outdoors don't need it? tho in WINTER even if I'm just setting up a outdoor heat matt how do i set up the cords to not get wet by rain?as it would need extension cord etc. ps I'm thinking more for a water turtle
With weather proofing in regards to heat globe can always have a cover over the top of it, a lot of cables are rated for the weather but obviously as the years go by it will decade eventually, I got all of my outdoor lights under a roof of the aviary and haven’t had a problem so far, the lights are only there for the cold cold days so yes for winter only, but could also go the extra mile and make an outdoor hot box hide, where inside the hide is the heat mat of heat globe, which it would then be weatherproof and dry :)
Sweeeeet set up! Lucky little dragon!
Thank you!
Good stuff mate
Cheers mate, big fan of your work!
amazing setup i was wondering if your water dragons dig into the ground
Only witnessed my female dig but only to lay, other than that they don’t at all they’d rather be up high or in the water, hope this helps!
Nice set up mate. I had a breeding pair living outdoors in Adelaide for years, and we would get a clutch of eggs every year. We even had 2 seasons where she laid her eggs outside and we had a bunch of hatchlings running around our backyard.
Personally, I don't think you need a bask/heat lamp. If you let them hibernate through the cooler months they will develop a better cycle on their own. Artificial lighting/heating in an outdoor enclosure can mess with this cycle and make breeding more difficult.
This is just from my experience though, you may have experienced differently.
Cheers for the advice mate, it’s mainly there as a precaution, I wouldn’t want a freezing cold summer day to affect them since I don’t have any natural heating hide like underground burrows etc
i thought about setting up outdoor lighting, do they need it and how to set it up so the rain wont get to cords or lighting?? any ideas /thoughts on this? or maybe outdoors don't need it? tho in WINTER even if I'm just setting up a outdoor heat matt how do i set up the cords to not get wet by rain?as it would need extension cord etc. ps I'm thinking more for a water turtle
With weather proofing in regards to heat globe can always have a cover over the top of it, a lot of cables are rated for the weather but obviously as the years go by it will decade eventually, I got all of my outdoor lights under a roof of the aviary and haven’t had a problem so far, the lights are only there for the cold cold days so yes for winter only, but could also go the extra mile and make an outdoor hot box hide, where inside the hide is the heat mat of heat globe, which it would then be weatherproof and dry :)