Its not my technique, its the hogs, they have been doing it a while. I have only been on this forum for 15 months or so.

Anyway, Please keep reporting how they respond to that type setup.

So far, and its always so far, the westerns use deep substrate well and do come up often, almost daily. Some of the Mexicans, go down and that is the end of that.

If I am so lucky to produce some baby Mexicans, I am going to test a raise up bin with deep dirt. Kinda like I would do with neonate varanids. That is, keep a handful in one cage and just toss in food and see how they respond.

As it is, putting WC hogs in deep dirt is funny, they use it as an escape hatch. AS of now, I do not have long term captives. So maybe they will give it up and act normal after a few years.

On here, doing something like that is like throwing the bible on the ground and stomping it. As you said, its fun. And I find it hard to believe that folks do not like to have fun.

ALso if you use cleaner sand/sand mix, your hogs will stay cleaner. In the field, they do not use substrates with plant material in it. They always pick pure silty sandy soils. I have lots of pics where half or part of a free ranging snake is tinted with silt. But never the dark plant material from commercial mixes. At least on my main site. still looking at other sites. But, in captivity, your mix works great, other then looks.

Anyway keep up with the fun and learning and post it. In the 15 or so months I have come to this site, your the first to test that or the first to admit testing that. hahahahahahahaha

Anyway, I use time lapse cams in the field, and when I set up that test raise up cage, I will record it. Thanks so much

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