I am not familiar with any of the commercial products you mentioned so I can't comment on them.

But I keep mine two ways. One 'natural' and one 'practical'.

When they are newborn to about a year old I keep them in the standard sweater box with warm spot, hide or two and an over-sized water bowl.

As they get a little larger though I have been moving towards keeping them in a more natural display type cage. I line the bottom with newspaper or paper towels but then cover this with sea grape or sea plum leaves or small palm branches from my yard.

I have some neat ceramic hide boxes my wife made years ago and I also add some nice stout branches. Lastly I put either one large water bowl or two medium bowls. I feel that the humidity is very important and they will often spend several days coiled in the water---especially if the water bowl is partially covered by palm leaves or a big slab of cork bark.

I can do this because I keep my collection small but it really makes keeping them much more interesting.

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