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RE: Thanks Jobi, I missed that

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Posted by: sidbarvin at Sat Oct 13 00:42:41 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by sidbarvin ]  
   

My experience is limited to only a handfull of monitors so obviously my statements should be taken with a grain of salt. Along the lines of what Frank and Jobi have stated, I have put some small monitors in larger cages with deep substrate thinking this would be better for the monitors and save me some time and money on caging. I have come to the conclusion that bigger is not necessarily better for raiseup cages, especially for someone with little or no experience with monitors. The large setups have made reading and responding to behavior very difficult if not impossible for me at times. It seems to give them the opportunity to operate unseen. The monitors I have kept in size appropriate sized cages have seemed to do much better since I can see what's going on with the critters and adjust my husbandry accordingly. Maybe if I were more experienced this would be otherwise and I would know how to use bigger cage and get the results I want.


   

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