Post by Patrick Kubeja on Aug 12, 2004 18:39:28 GMT -5
Frilled Dragons
Chlamydosaurus Kingii
Description
These arboreal lizards colors are from olive to grayish brown to near black. Of course that varies. They also have a large frill that folds around their neck and can be extended when they are frightened or confronted to make them look bigger and also to show off for females when breeding. Never house a larger dragon with a smaller one as they will attack and may end up dinner. They are generally not aggressive towards people though. Please research behavior display’s more. Their colors on the frill could be yellow to jet-black and /or orange and may be spotted. As an adult they can reach total length of 30 inches from nose to tail. So that makes 10 inches body length the rest tail. Their frills can be up to 12 inches.
Housing
Well they love to climb and are very active guy’s . So they will need at least a 6 ft X 3ft. X 4ft. Enclosure ( may want to research more) From what I have read I suggest newspaper for substrate there are other things out there but may cause impaction. Never know? Please read more. These guy’s are climbers so you will need some climbing logs and basking areas for each one. Those logs should be about the same thickness as the lizards and cleaned. You might want to add some fake trees as well. As always please offer them a large water bowl and be prepared to clean it daily as they may defecate in it. And or they can be trained to defecate in a water filled litter pan. Please make sure they cant tip it over. You may also mist them or give them a warm bath occasionally, they will love it.
Dragons need UVA and UVB to survive. So their basking temps should be somewhere around 95-100 degrees. The surrounding or cooler side temps should be around 84-88 degrees. Night time temps need to be around mid 70 degrees.
Diet
These Dragon’s will eat heartedly and should be feed daily. A large adult could eat up to 2 dozen crickets for a single meal. Good staple food sources are crickets, mealworms, and super worms. But they also love roaches and rodents of appropriate size. And that should be around half to three quarters of the space between your guy’s eye’s.
They may also eat some greens like, collard, red leaf, mustard, dandelion, turnip, green leaf. Please try to stay away from feeding them iceberg lettuce, large amounts of kale, spinach, cabbage. They may also eat some veggies like squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, corn, peas, and fruits in small amounts. Extra things you may add to your salad mix are, dandelion, hibiscus flowers or cactus fruit. So you can mix it up and offer them a variety of things daily. But some of these guy’s will not eat veggies. Please research more about crickets , and how to care for them if you plan to breed them.
Supplementation
From what I have read it’s best to check with a good herp vet about the right supplements. Because all factors such as lighting natural or otherwise and diet are taken into consideration. He/She should be able to give you the right schedule for your dragon. One suggestion is for young guy’s daily with a ratio of 1 part Rep-Cal Herptivite to 3 parts Rep-Cal calcium with vitamin D3. Older dragons about once or twice weekly. But please check with your vet. Because too much or not enough can lead to problems.
This is just a basic care sheet. Please research because there is more information out there. Check with a good herp Vet also. If there is something you would like to add to this or needs changed, please let Patrick or I know about it and we can do more reading and add to it.
Chlamydosaurus Kingii
Description
These arboreal lizards colors are from olive to grayish brown to near black. Of course that varies. They also have a large frill that folds around their neck and can be extended when they are frightened or confronted to make them look bigger and also to show off for females when breeding. Never house a larger dragon with a smaller one as they will attack and may end up dinner. They are generally not aggressive towards people though. Please research behavior display’s more. Their colors on the frill could be yellow to jet-black and /or orange and may be spotted. As an adult they can reach total length of 30 inches from nose to tail. So that makes 10 inches body length the rest tail. Their frills can be up to 12 inches.
Housing
Well they love to climb and are very active guy’s . So they will need at least a 6 ft X 3ft. X 4ft. Enclosure ( may want to research more) From what I have read I suggest newspaper for substrate there are other things out there but may cause impaction. Never know? Please read more. These guy’s are climbers so you will need some climbing logs and basking areas for each one. Those logs should be about the same thickness as the lizards and cleaned. You might want to add some fake trees as well. As always please offer them a large water bowl and be prepared to clean it daily as they may defecate in it. And or they can be trained to defecate in a water filled litter pan. Please make sure they cant tip it over. You may also mist them or give them a warm bath occasionally, they will love it.
Dragons need UVA and UVB to survive. So their basking temps should be somewhere around 95-100 degrees. The surrounding or cooler side temps should be around 84-88 degrees. Night time temps need to be around mid 70 degrees.
Diet
These Dragon’s will eat heartedly and should be feed daily. A large adult could eat up to 2 dozen crickets for a single meal. Good staple food sources are crickets, mealworms, and super worms. But they also love roaches and rodents of appropriate size. And that should be around half to three quarters of the space between your guy’s eye’s.
They may also eat some greens like, collard, red leaf, mustard, dandelion, turnip, green leaf. Please try to stay away from feeding them iceberg lettuce, large amounts of kale, spinach, cabbage. They may also eat some veggies like squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, corn, peas, and fruits in small amounts. Extra things you may add to your salad mix are, dandelion, hibiscus flowers or cactus fruit. So you can mix it up and offer them a variety of things daily. But some of these guy’s will not eat veggies. Please research more about crickets , and how to care for them if you plan to breed them.
Supplementation
From what I have read it’s best to check with a good herp vet about the right supplements. Because all factors such as lighting natural or otherwise and diet are taken into consideration. He/She should be able to give you the right schedule for your dragon. One suggestion is for young guy’s daily with a ratio of 1 part Rep-Cal Herptivite to 3 parts Rep-Cal calcium with vitamin D3. Older dragons about once or twice weekly. But please check with your vet. Because too much or not enough can lead to problems.
This is just a basic care sheet. Please research because there is more information out there. Check with a good herp Vet also. If there is something you would like to add to this or needs changed, please let Patrick or I know about it and we can do more reading and add to it.