Thanks for supporting my views. I recomend choices. That include wet and dry. If you can make them.



The context of this discussion was not your cages. It was a small take with a large water bowl and dirt. Then that drifted to THEY NEED WET cause they are water monitors. As oppossed to allowing them to dry off. What they need(choices) is to be able to dry off, as you clearly stated. Not one or the other. As a general comment, monitors do not like being wet for long periods, they always try to dry off, if givin the oppertunity. Sometimes, that oppertunity does not exsist, both in nature and in cages. Often it leads to death in both as well. At least the wild ones have options, climb a tree or something.



If you going to keep them in a tiny cage(which I whole heartedly do not recoment) It is better to keep them dry and humid with only drinking water. Then in a tiny sopping wet cage. Don't you agree.



I do understand how you would get confused, as my opponents often make it black and white, extreme opposites, then try to take it out of context. Its rarely black and white, and its rarely extreme and there is a meaningful context. What it is, is our reality, most beginer keepers, keep them how the petshop tells them and in what the petshop sells them. Happily known as a starter kit. The results are repeatable, the monitor dies, the keeper throws the kit away, the petshop sells another monitor and starter kit to a unsuspecting person. This is the common context and the base reality, not what a monitor does in its natural turf.



Again, your cage sounds great, lots of choices for your monitor to exercise its own choices and abilities. Good on you. Cheers

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