I have one real concern, and that is cage size. A six foot cage or even a six foot(by 3ft) area to dig in, is much to small for a monitor that gets 6 foot. Even if it tops out at four foot in total lenght, how could it burrow in six feet of dirt?

To me, it appears to be a raise up cage your planning and if it is, then you do not need two foot of dirt.

The problem with BT's are, they are a huge burrowing monitor. Those ten foot troughts are much more appropriate for that species. (thats even small)

I often get confused as allowing deep substrate is normally to allow nesting. Which means you will have a pair. If your intentions are to keep a single animals, then you do not need to have two feet deep of dirt. Do you see my confusion. For a simple shelter burrow you can do all manner of cage tricks to accomplish the same thing.

Of course for smaller monitors, I would recomend deep substrate for any situation. But for a GIANT lizard, dude, thats one lot of dirt. Cheers

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