I do wish you luck, but I am not sure luck is going to work for you.

Take that rock out before you have a dead monitor. Lets start by using some Zoo decoration guidelines. That is, heavist things down. If your going to use a heavy rock, like you mentioned, it must be secured to the bottom of the cage. If not, your monitor will dig underneath and kill itself.

AGain, I learned this the hard way. The reason RETES boards are made of wood and with runners is because we lost a number of monitors this way.

Also, if you live in a cooler climate, like the northeast, that rock becomes a sink for cool and will not allow a decent heating area.

You must consider, the hot basking area is not just to provide a basking spot of 135F or more. The reason many of us use hot spots over 150F is, they also provide hot areas underneath and around the basking spot that the monitor can choose from.

The important part of this is DARK hot spots. As dark hot spots are what is utilized far more then lite hot spots.

If your rock heats up enough to allow the monitor to choose good temps underneath it, then the monitor will make that its home/shelter. It will keep digging and digging, arranging and arranging until that rock crushes down on it.

Again, I wish you luck.

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