>>I read this and I dont believe I'm doing anything wrong.





Except the humidity, the size of the enclosure for a heat gradient and the substrate.....nope, nothing. You wanted opinions and you want to ignore them off the bat? What point is there?

Right now you have a cute Savannah monitor oven...you will have a cooked baby soon. It will dehydrate and wither away, eat less and less and sorta stop wanting to live.

DIRT....deep enough to burrow in...like a half a foot minimum. That box is too SMALL .....there is no way the heat from the bulb can be warm enough and not have a cooking hot box everywhere else in there....you need more room to allow for a cool end.



Where in the world you got that they come from DRY is beyond me.Grasslands. Do a bit of looking at the SAVANNAH environment. ADD some burrows....like where monitors go to escape the cooking sun. That means humidity.



If you are worried about expense just chuck the monitor right now. They want a big enclosure and they want to eat. Crix, roaches, mice then rats. Do the math.

In that small box your monitor will not live six months....but it will ultimately save you money when it dies I guess. In six months mine outgrew 55 gallon sized enclosures. So I personally would work from there.



I don't know who would recommend paper under a monitor....but again....nothing to dig, no humidity.... DIRT. It is easy and cheap if you have a back yard and a shovel.

NOT dog food, whole prey items, crix, pinkies. Again, easy.
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