Right now they're in a 29 gallon aquarium (30" x 12" x 18" with a screen lid; I've blocked off most of the screen with foil except for a little bit on the cool end in order to keep the humidity up. The warm end is around 90°F at substrate level while the basking spot (a large piece of sandstone) is around 130°F; the cool end is around 80°F. Humidity stays around 60%; their water dish is large enough to allow them to soak & submerge completely. The bedding is a peat moss/vermiculite mix that holds a burrow pretty well when moist; they have 5" on the cool end that slopes up to 6" on the warm end.

They're getting moved to my 75 gallon aquarium (48" x 18" x 21" sometime next week; I'm working on a new lid for it because they figured out the old one within minutes of being placed in there, and I would prefer to avoid any and all escapes. I'm starting construction of their permanent cage(s) come June; I haven't decided on the dimensions yet as I want to determine their gender first before deciding whether to keep them together or not.

They're only about 12" long in total length now, so are you sure that they will be fine with being switched to a rodent/fish-based diet already? As for the venison, would it be acceptable to feed them it if the cleaned organs, skin, hair, and some ground up bone are ground in with it? If so, then I'll just save some of those come hunting season to make food for them. Will whole live small minnows work for the fish portion of their diet? I have a pond that has a decent population of minnows which is why I ask; I know that disease could be a concern, but I also know that store-bought live fish as well as dead whole fish typically are full of chemicals & diseases.

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