The things that are important to your bearded dragon are:

Food: Water dragons love hunting down live insects and small animals but this doesn’t mean that this is all they eat . A Water dragon needs to have a variety of foods to do well. A mixture of fruit and vegetables need to be offered to your animal, with things like lettuce, dandelions, strawberries, banana, peas etc. usually being well accepted. There is also a very good pellet food available from the Rep-Cal company in two sizes for adults and juvenile animals. Do NOT feed meal worms to young dragons! Mealworms have been known to eat their way back out of the animal.

Heat: Being a reptile, the dragons do not have inbuilt means to control their own body temperature, so therefore when they are being kept indoors they need to have a heat source that they can approach or avoid as the need arises. These animals love to bask in a hot area, soaking up the heat. This gives them the energy that they need to be able to digest their food, move around, and find more food. So it is essential that you use an enclosure that will cater to these needs.

Ultra Violet Light: Reptiles, like us, need to have exposure to U.V. light to enable us to process vitamin D in their bodies. Without a good source of U.V. your animal will suffer from problems with it’s skeleton and joints. Deformities are not uncommon in animals that are housed with no U.V. and this can also result in paralysis and death. A good flouro tube like a Repti-glo, Repti-star or Repti-sun is essential if your animal does not get regular exposure to natural sunlight. This exposure needs to be direct, not through glass. Glass cuts down the penetration of U.V. light dramatically.

Calcium: A juvenile water dragon can quadruple it’s size in just a few months. To do this, large amounts of calcium are needed to build healthy bones. To ensure that your animal gets all the calcium that it requires, you should regularly supplement your animal’s food with a good calcium powder like Rep-cal or tetra’s Repto-Cal.

Water: Water dragons are quite messy when it comes to their water. The animals are usually found around river banks where they will sit in the trees overhanging the river. At the first sign of trouble they will dive into the river & swim away from the danger. The dragons tend to defecate in the water too, so it is important to ensure the water area of the enclosure can be cleaned easily.

.Social structure: If you are keeping more than one animal then there will be a definite pecking order established. You will see that it is always the most dominant animal that gets the best basking spots etc. Always ensure that your animals which are lower on the pecking order get enough to eat.