i rescued a lizard from drowning in my pool
i think it might be a northern water dragon. He is still pretty sick do i dont want to let him free yet but i dont know what to feed him. Can anyone help?
If its a wild water dragon it may not feed for you. Its quite common. They eat fruit as well as insects so you coiuld leave some in the enclosure with it. Cover the enclosure so it cant see you.
Fruit, Insects, I found mine to be veyr partial to pinky mice or pinky rats, water dragons will go for it all. Just leave it alone & especially with it's food, should be fine after a while. Like Peter syas, cover it so it can't see anyone.
i live in darwin
he seems fine and lets me hold him but i need to try and feed him. he is out on the back deck in an aquarium so he should be ok. ill let him go as soon as he looks ok but at the moment he is still coughing up water
so its just what everyone round here calls a tar tar? (they call like 5 dragon species tar tar's lol)
where bouts in darwin you live?
and are you a reptile keeper (im assuming you arnt because these are first posts you have made here)
I don't know if this will help but anyway, try it if you like.
I read in a turtle care sheet that they can get water in their lungs if they're stuck underwater and if this happens you can hold it carefully in both hands with the head outwards and GENTLY swing it downwards to help it get the water out of its lungs.
I hope its alright to try on a lizard too.
how is the dragon going?...are you able to post up a photo of the animal so we know what we are dealing with....different animals need different requirements...
As soon as its running around again I'd just release it because the stress of a new environment and less space might put it off its food anyway, but as everyone has said if you feed it use live food.
thank you all for your help
i kept him fo a few days until i was sure he was alright and then i le him go.
it was sad because my bearded dragon got very attached to him.
they slept with their arms around each other lol.
on a sadder note i found 2 more in the pool but it was too late to save them.