Water Dragon Pics

[gregcranston]

Cris your Gippy is absolutely stunning! I would love one with such high quality colours like that, one day... lol!

 

[lizardjasper]

Do wild Water Dragons grow bigger than captive ones?

 

[richardsc]

jasper captives have the potental to out grow wild ones,more ready access to food,biggest one of seen was a wild one,it was missing most of its tail but head body size was enormous,head as big around the circumference as my hand,note i have big hands

also the pics
of y
our friends waterdragons you said male gwd,female ewd,the male is an eastern,the females to me look eastern cross gippslands,u can tell cause gippy girls dont have the eye banding like eastern females,but they have the gippy coloration hence my eastern cross gippy guesstimation

 

[-Matt-]

A wild Eastern.

 

[GeckoJosh]

Another wild Eastern, I think its a girl (sorry crappy camera)

 

[cris]

Thanks for posting the pics, the thread seemed to start a bit slow but its getting better now

jasper captives have the potental to out grow wild ones,more ready access to food,biggest one of seen was a wild one,it was missing most of its tail but head body size was enormous,head as big around the circumference as my hand,note i have big hands

While its more likely a well kept captive will get bigger than a wild one, there is much more genetic variation in wild, which makes it a hard question to answer. The biggest water dragon i have seen would have been about 1m long, it was wild but almost definately fed heaps by humans.

also the pics
of y
our friends waterdragons you said male gwd,female ewd,the male is an eastern,the females to me look eastern cross gippslands,u can tell cause gippy girls dont have the eye banding like eastern females,but they have the gippy coloration hence my eastern cross gippy guesstimation

I would assume all are likely to be hybrids. It is hard to know for sure though.

 

[richardsc]

thats true cris,it isnt always so obvious

 

[cris]

Here is a nice young male EWD that is often hanging around my place.

 

[Chris1]

im in lurve,....more to add to the ever growinbg wish list!!

 

[jimbomma]

hi all. Here's a couple of updated pics of the lizard i bought as a western water dragon, plus one of her enclosure.

 

[scott_lee86]

I'm no expert jimbomma but I believe they are eastern water dragons but please don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong

 

[yewherper]

I really like Water Dragons and i really want some. Does anyone know someone selling?
thanks

 

[richardsc]

yewherper,if u look in the forsales they are quite commonly for sale,i normally have left overs each season

jimbomma,they are eastern water dragons,theres no scientificly named subspecies from the west,its my belief they are just a western population of easterns,or perhaps offspring for the introduced specimens found in certain areas in sa

 

[jesskie]

http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=2754&pictureid=25644 Great Pics!!

Here's my lil one



http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=2754&pictureid=25644http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=2754&pictureid=25644

 

[jimbomma]

scott_lee86 and richardsc - you are both correct. she is an eastern and is offspring from the adelaide population. was sold with the name as being from the most western part of the distribution. still... the photos don't do her justice. she looks different to easterns. she's much smaller for her age. and i think her markings are more spectacular. i had two. the male past away. they're proving harder to keep than normal water dragons. i along with two other more experienced handlers than me, bought two of these lizards each, and i have the only remaining one. i hope to get another male soon.

 

[Biert]

thread necro!

Got some nice EWD pics from around University of Queensland.

1st and 2nd pick are just two nice big ones i found. 3rd and 4th is of one that was in the tree, he/she is hard to spot, but it had the strangest patches of pure white colouring, that seemed to be symmetrical on its body, its easier to see in the second pick, could this be some kind of disease? genes gone wrong? birth defect? 5th pic is just a nice fella that let me get pretty close! more to come!

 

[richardsc]

sa isnt part of there natural distribution,also not sure they would be any harder to keep,water dragons are hardy buggers as a whole

 

[Kurama]

Wild.

 

[gonff]

a wild gippsland

 

[krissy78]

You want pics?!? I gots pics! All of these are of my male EWD, Spike. Some when I first got him. And some of him now, at 4 years old.

Aren't you quite the photographer they are some of the best WD pics I have seen, hope you are entering the APS calender comp. Gr8 photo's and nice Dragon