I want to try the dirt setup. Though I love to have that special time of the day when my reptiles come out and play, I need to respect that if they are trying to hide (burrowing), they wouldn't want to come out anyways. So I'm going to try dirt. But, my tank is only 13" tall. I will eventually get a taller tank, but I want to know if there's way to use this one for now. Maybe if I made it so that half of the tank was a dirt slope, going from about 10" deep to 3" deep on the shallow side, which would allow for some burrowing. It's a really small tank for a dirt setup (only 48"x13"x13", but I would still like to try. If nothing else the uro could make a nice underground den? I would like to try it soon, but it's the middle of winter here and it's not going to be diggable for quite some time...and I think that the dirt that would be purchased at home depot or a garden supply store would be too dark no matter what the mixture is. There's some dirt in my back yard that seems the right color, and possibly the right texture for digging (when some other soils are mixed in and it has the right amount of water in it)...but there's a problem. I'm pretty sure my parent's aren't going to let me dig a hundred pounds of dirt out of the back yard. Plus, how would I sterilize the dirt? I think I would also need a new stand for my tank, because it's on a cheap metal one right now that's not even the right size for it. There's about a 9" overhang off each end. It could probably hold up to about 100 pounds of dirt, but I wouldn't be able to do a slope like I was talking about. I'll have to look into a new stand, or possibly a completely new tank (I would like to build some eventually).



Robyn, if I can't find the right dirt up here, would there be any way I could get about 100 pounds of your dirt. It would cost a lot to ship, and probably be hard to package. But, I would be willing to pay you for the shipping, the dirt, and the trouble of sending it. Where did you get that dirt anyways?



-ryan

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