again, like i explained, your jumping ahead of yourself.

You do not know if your husbandry is good, the reason is, you have no results. Its an ongoing process that will need to be adjusted as you go. Its never right, its always trying to support right.

Also monitors "do not live in the open" they live in things. Like in burrows, or in burrows in trees, or both, in burrows that start in a hollow and go down into the root systems. That is where they live. Not where they hide.

So for your temps to be effective, they should also include cool temps in holes and burrows and of course warm to hot temps in holes and burrows. That is about ten thousand times for important then any temp on any side of a cage.

I will use a tiny example. I live in the desert, and I have five acres. There are about 2000 reptiles on my property. Yet on a nice spring day like today, I may see twenty or so individuals. Its that way if all reptile habitats.

What that means is, they live in, much more then they live on. Like a gopher(the mammal). Going to breakfast, cheers

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