You seem to have figured this one out for yourself. While your monitors need the "leg room", anacondas do not. The snakes seem content to just hang out if everything is provided for them correctly, while monitors will dig, climb, burrow, etc. even when they are provided with perfect environmental parameters. The larger and more elaborate the snake enclosure, the more chance for husbandry errors there is. A large naturalistic enclosure is really neat as a display but is much more challenging to maintain. It seems that in the end, the snakes don't really care or else we would see signs of distressed behavior in the simpler set ups. The husbandry advantages of the simpler set-ups without the big water pools definitely outweigh the disadvantages, as you read in earlier forum posts.

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