Posted by:
murrindindi
at Sat Jul 23 05:43:36 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by murrindindi ]
Hi Phiff, if it were my enclosure, I would take out the plywood over the trough, AND the second level piece, too. That leaves just the soil and the basking shelf, then put a large log [or a "Retes stack"], running from the soil up to the basking spot. I think the soil under the plywood will be quite cold, maybe he/she might sleep under there at times, but it`s really not somewhere the monitor will be too active in just now.
I think from what you`ve said previously, this animal wasn`t getting sufficiently high basking temps, that can also cause them to gain weight, because they aren`t digesting the food efficiently enough, and far less active than "normal".
You need to put hides the animal feels secure in, that bark thing is too small, the little branch is doing nothing.
Just my thoughts...
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