<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>It is winter-ish in Ohio, and one of my friends lost his dwar crocf. He let his attic door open and it got too cool. This was really unfortunate, because it was a really cool little critter. I almost had the same experiance with my dwarf caiman. My two submersible heaters died on me. I tried to combat the cooling water by filling large water juggs with hot water. She survived through the night. The next dayI went and got a hydor 300 watt inline heater. It is Italian made. This is vastly superior to submersibles. An added bennefit is that you can controll the water temps without having to stick your hands in your toothy friends enclosure. Also I got to meet the head reptile keeper at our Cleveland zoo, and he made me reevaluate my thoughts on uv lights for the dwarf species. Thier dwarf crocodile is the best looking dwarf crocodillian I
have seen. They use mercury vapor lights, but they also give her areas to hide in the dark. She doesn't have any tooth splaying like I have seen in other animals. And she has fantasitc colors. She feeds right out in the bright lights, operantly conditioned using a cow bell.</DIV></td></tr></table><br>