I'd swap out that dry clay crap substrate and put in more of a soil/sand mixture. Varanus exanthematicus doesn't live on clay.

Put some effort into mixing up some sand and something like eco earth coconut fiber. It holds humidity and burrows better than the crap clay does. You'll want to add more than you currently have in there. Just because they are young doesn't mean they won't benefit MANY WAYS from deep substrate. They benefit from it at EVERY age as long as it's the right mixture.

You can throw that half log into a baby snake enclosure; useless for a monitor. You can add actual logs/cork in there, just bury them a bit. Take the plywood ramp and use it as a bicycle ramp. You can use a flat rock or something with some actual terrain on it for that purpose. An actual flat rock is going to be better on the monitor nails and overall natural look of the enclosure than that ply ramp.

Lower your basking lights closer to the surface where you are going to throw out the ply and add a better basking site. If they are lower, you won't be using high wattage lights and it will be heating a very centralized area rather than the entire air of the enclosure at the top. I'll admit Frank hit the nail on the head there.

Good luck

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