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hey evaryone wat do u ppl us for hid spots for ur black rough necks or in this case and monitor if possib can you post a pic of you hid spot

thanks so much

tom
1.1 bdand a rought neck dont no wat i would put it a srry

I've never kept black roughnecks, but since no one answered you the last time you posted this I thought someone should respond.

You'll probably find that your monitor will like to squeeze into tight spaces. Flat bits of bark or wood on the substrate that it can dig under, flat pieces of wood held together with spacers in between (like Retes stacks), hollow branches, small boxes with a narrow entrance.

I like ProExotic's hides: They take the trey you use for plants (The Terra Cotta type) and take a hammer and hit the outside of it.

Black plastic ABS pipe works really well and is easy to clean. It comes in 2, 3, 4, 6, 8", etc. diameters, and can easily be hung on cage walls or ceiling with teacup hooks. A lot of arboreal monitors will settle in better if they have secure hides above your head level. Plain pipe is of course slippery, but you can roughen the outside with a rasp if need be. Small monitors tend to like a tight fit, but larger animals will often pick a tube with some extra room if given a choice. Nothing says you can't thread one end and extend these capped pipes right out of the cage wall to give an even wider thermal range, or as a way of adding several feet of usable space to an enclosure.

For my BRN I use cork bark, and I even through in some of the husks that fall off the palm tree. These are curved so when mounted on the sides of my cage gives a nice hide for him to sneak into. I also have used rubbermaid tubs, black corragated plastic pipe, and (Retes) stacks.

If you'd like pictures just let me know i can either post them or email them to you.

yea if u could email them to me at tmetal30@yahoo.com

Hi Jody, Retes stacks are not for use with most larger monitors. Most of these species have a high vertebral ridge. This causes scaring and abraisions along the backbone.

Hollow logs, corktubes and any other such curved shelters are much better.

Retes stacks were and are designed for the smaller species that often use crevices in rocks/bark and wood as shelters.

Using Retes stacks for species that it was not designed for is again, out of context. F

I just started rambling off all of the hides used for all of my monitors. Guess I should of kept it about only the monitor in question.

I agree the stacks woul dnot work well for larger monitors. I do use a similar method. It is not a stack merely just one level. It is large enough for them to fit under without causing abrasions. Basically it is a piece of plywood mounted on 2x4's or something else to raise it up to the correct hieght needed.

I would love to see pictures. We are slowly starting to build our large permeant cage. Right now hides are pretty easy since they are small, but I had no real idea about what to use in the future. Some of the things you mentioned I have no idea what it is, so if you don't mind, I would love to see pictures of hides you use, like the one you said you mounted, I cant visualize that, Really interested in that idea. Thank you in advance for any pictures you send.
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Candy
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