crone the hopefully new to be caiman

[Cold blooded but prime]

I thought I would share this with you.

I looked into gettin a dwa some time ago but the prices in the areas I planned to live in made it impossible! (price wise)
I have now established myself and I am going through the 8 week stage of my licence, I am really suprised how low the price is round here! I found public liability insurance for £85 per annum for the one species. The vet check is 60 pound and the licence is £130 for the year. I thought long and hard about what to keep as a dwa animal in the end I decided crocodilians as arachnids dont interest me and im happy to admit my mentoring is not up to scratch for venomous snakes (maybe in the future), thought about a gila monster but I here they are hard to come by? So crocodilian wise im gonna start with a spectacled caiman, got my setup all ready its a fab tank/viv setup with land and water, filtration, in and out waterheating, dimmed lighting you name it, lots of plant growth etc. I have gone though the protocals, locks and signs on viv and door, My council didint require me to have double doors which is good for me lol I havent got the caiman yet but already decided on the name crone lol I did my degree in crocodilians last year and have worked with a couple of species of caiman, and a american alligator.

Will upload pics of setup and my new lil friend when it all goes through.

[andy2086]

Cool! Looking forward to seeing the pics

[Cold blooded but prime]

I have uploaded some pics of some previous friends lol (in my album)

[jacko1]

your from the south east

it wasnt at yarmouth where you worked with the crocks was it

there is a place on the sea front that has some dwarf and spec caimans and a realy big american aligator

[Cold blooded but prime]

Nope afraid not.

[jacko1]

get a pic of your setup up mate i have a specticled caiman and love him to bits took 14 years to get one

[Cold blooded but prime]

Yea keep meaning to take da pics lol what sort of setup you use? 14 years wow, Im sure there was a post just recently in the dwa classifieds for some for sale.

[jacko1]

he is just over 2ft long and he is in a 7ft by 3ft fish tank with about 8" of water and a gravel bank at one end with the right lighting and a realy big exturnal pump and filter as tis is verry important for the cleanleynes lol

[Cold blooded but prime]

lol yea what filtration you using? I found a couple of external fluvas work well.

[jacko1]

same here mate once he is in a big enclosure it will be swapped to a big pond pump and filtration system