AVS Green Water Dragons

AVS Green Water Dragons

Green Water Dragons

Interest in green water dragons has surged in recent years. This concise and comprehensive book offers information on choosing a healthy specimen, as well as easy-to-follow instructions on housing, feeding, and caring for these impressive lizards. It also provides direction on treatment of the species' most common diseases and disorders. Revised and updated with new photos, this edition has all the information a first-time or advanced keeper will need.

Excerpt from Green Water Dragons:

Despite their protected status in several countries, green water dragons are still imported in large numbers for the pet trade. This is not altogether surprising, considering these semi-arboreal Asian reptiles are among the best large lizard pets available. They are attractive, can be handled, and display well. Most adapt well to captivity and readily breed in proper captive conditions. They do not grow nearly as large as green iguanas and tend to be somewhat calmer. Iguanas often display more responsive behaviors and more signs of intelligence than water dragons, but a somewhat less responsive personality has certain advantages. Green water dragons are less likely to become stressed when moved to a new enclosure. Unlike iguanas, they can also be displayed in large, attractive, planted vivaria and are less likely to damage landscaped plants and materials than most other large lizards.

In scientific nomenclature, green water dragons are classified as Physignathus cocincinus, one of the largest members of the Old World family Agamidae. Two other Physignathus species are occasionally offered in the herpetocultural trade: the Australian water dragon, Physignathus lesueurii , and the small Southeast Asian Physignathus temporalis .

The highly acclaimed Advanced Vivarium Systems ^TM books, founded and guided by herpetocultural pioneer Philippe de Vosjoli, are the #1 books on reptile care. From choosing a pet and selecting a veterinarian to feeding, housing, breeding, and more, these books deliver the most helpful and up-to-date information available on popular reptiles and amphibians kept as pets.