This is my first monitor, but not nearly my first lizard or reptile. x] I guess I was just a little anxious. He's doing excellent now, and he's really a very docile monitor, he seems to be shedding fine on his own and he's gone to the bathroom normally! He has a heat gradient in his current tank from 85 on the cool side to ~130 at his basking spot and he really seemed to enjoy his first few meals with me (I'm feeding a variation of the SDZ diet, ground turkey/raw egg shell/multivitamin powder, and a good variety of insects on the side).



As for the closet, I think I just explained it poorly. I'm only going up about four feet height-wise, and the closet base itself is 6x3, so essentially I'm just building a big enclosure in a closet. I was hoping to avoid mold by tarping off the first ~2 feet over the plywood to hold the substrate and using high-humidity bathroom paint to seal everything else. As for stacks, I googled them and I think I got the rough idea, but I'm going to shoot you an e-mail for a little more detail on the actual construction.



Thanks for your help so far!

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