You can get oak leaf litter under oak trees I just collect it where I can find it. With the leaf litter you can put cork bark flats on top of it and they can dig under it where ever they want. I am sure you could make a hide and that would work just fine but the bark is very easy and natural looking too. I actually use cotton wood bark now rather than cork bark as I can collect huge pieces of it for free. I would bet you could find similar types of bark depending on where you live. You can use the bark to make a Retes stack instead of plywood for asthetic purposes too. The stream could work, but you are just making more work for yourself. Given timors tendancy to hide all the time making a cage that is nice to look at minus the monitor might not be a bad idea. I was concerned at first that you might have been putting asthetics ahead of the monitor's needs. It sounds like you have done your homework though so if you don't mind the extra work I would say go for it.

Good luck,
Steve

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