![]() I recommend supplementing the diet with either of these. Recently, I have experienced great success with fruit-flavored dry lizard and bird pellets. My adult lizards love chicken cat food most juveniles will only eat insects. They can live 10 to 12 years.Ĭrickets, mealworms, super worms, wax worms, earth worms, and high-grade canned chicken cat food (make sure there's real chicken in it) are all relished. They react to stress and cool temperatures by darkening their colors, and they can turn almost black when seriously stressed. Commonly called the Asian water dragon, it's also known as the Chinese or green water dragon (aptly so, as the normally imported specimens are very green indeed).Īsian water dragons can reach a length of 24 inches in one year when raised properly, to a total length of approximately 36 inches (this being mostly tail). Physignathus cocincinus hails from the dense forests of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and South China. I quickly acquired every book I could find and read them from cover to cover, more than once. Now I was faced with the task of properly feeding and housing my new friend. My mother had been secretly keeping him at her apartment for 2 weeks. Now named Ziggy, he was the exact dragon that I saw at the pet shop. "Don't shake that one!" yelped my mother.Īnd that was I received my first water dragon. Water Dragons Chapter: The First StepsĪ couple of months later, while opening Christmas presents, I began to shake a box that I was just handed. I did not purchase the dragon at that time, however I already had a 3 1/2-foot green iguana that was becoming quite the handful. It was an adult male that was stunted from being raised in too small an enclosure. ![]() The lizard's color was a light olive green with hints of emerald and blue. This was the first time I'd ever seen the magnificent Asian water dragon ( Physignathus cocincinus). It literally came to the front of the enclosure as if to say, "Please buy me." It was an interesting lizard, with a roosterlike crest, half inch spines running from the top of the head to almost the end of the stub tail, big eyes and puffy jowls. There were iguanas, bearded dragons, various common geckos, savannah monitors and large constrictors, but one lizard seemed to beg for my attention. ![]() In the fall of 1995, I was browsing at a local pet store that had a rather large selection of reptiles (for small town in Mississippi, that is).
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