Hi Bob, your cage is nice from a human point of view, but very alien to pyros.

First you treat your cage as from the surface of the ground up, which is a bit like locking you in a playground and never letting you go in your house. Do you get that.

Pyros live and breed and feed, 99.99% of the time underground or IN. that is, inside rock crevices or inside dead hollow trees. They only come to the surface for a very short time and for special occasions. Like you going snorkling.

How about if an alien caught you snorkling and took you and placed you in a cage which was like where he caught you. You know, swimming in the ocean. Well thats what your cage is to a pyro. They are actually a snake the spends as much time on the surface as you do in the ocean.

What I am getting at is, the pyro may not understand the tools you are using and what they are for. Mainly because they do not fit what a pyro is looking for. Nearly always, pyros pick sealed areas to live in. And they pick nearly sealed areas to thermoregulate in. I have posted a pic of a pyro in a crack. They only use those under very rare conditions. But they thermoregulate on a daily basis.

So please try to think about what the animal actually does.

IF you understand that, you can offer tools that is will use, even if its not what it would actually do in nature.

So it boils down to not just what it does in nature, but how it does them. Its the how thats important here.

So your expecting your pyro to bask in the open, and yes, even in the half round thing, its open. They bask coiled tightly in something. Like under bark, or in a tight crevice. Or in a hole just under the surface of the ground.

So what you have is loose hides with lots of air movement, and thats not what they do. They pick tight areas with almost no air movement.

Just for fun, take a piece of meat and stick it under that lite and see what happens, do that for me will you. Tell us what happens.

And yes, I have produce getula in every month of the year, that is, a single female has produced offspring in every month of the year. And lots of females have done that for me.

But thats not really the point, in nature I watched colonies of pyros and watched their reproduction. They produced hatchlings from june to november. more later, cheers

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