I originally used sand and that was wrong for Alligator Lizard. It might be ok for Beard Lizards. Sand stinks up the room. Coconut fiber sucks the bad odor in if you keep it a bit damp.

Anyway, it looks like you have a 10 gallon tank. You can go to Petco and buy 3 brick blocks packaged together of coconut fiber for about $10. Go home and use a saw to saw one of the blocks in half and that will be more than enough. Take an old container, or buy one of those little plastic trash can. Put hot water into it from the bathtub and put the block in.

Half a half an hour, use some type of flat object and put it over the brim or mouth of the trash can. Sipher the water out.

DO NOT DO IT IN THE BATHTUB because the coconut fiber will clog up the drains really bad and nothing will be able to remove them unless you stick a drain spring down there. Obviously, I am speaking from experience.

Grab a hand full of coconut fiber and squeeze all the water out. Throw it in an additional aquarium and keep doing that to all of it. Throw it out in the sun at 11am and every half an hour, use a stick to move it around to sun dry all of it completely.

When cleaning the crap, just do a spot check every day. Do the same thing to the other half of the block and you can put extra into the aquarium as needed but rarely do you need to.

Every day, mist the top layer down to keep the humidity up. I bought one of those spray bottle at Lowes for $7 that has a pumping action.
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