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I have seen FR talk about using multiple cages to achieve different events, and to keep the monitors from becoming stale in their environment. Can someone (perhaps FR) please elaborate on this practice? I understand the hatchling cage and breeding cage, but the others? Is the gravid female isolated for a nesting cage? Or is the entire group moved?
Thanks,
Jason
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"Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew!" Charlie Papazian

I believe the use of muiltiple cages is intended to imitate animals in the wild, by this I mean, for example. That some groups may utilize a particular outcropping or niche, than move to another. The reasons are varied and a completely dfferent topic.

However, I believe that by changing an animals cage, changes the stimuli expressed on the animal. New sights,new smells etc.

So granted an animal will need diffrent size cages through its life based on growth but changing cages beyond those factors will change more than the box the animal is in.

I think FR has said it before but we should entertain and enjoy our monitors, so why keep them in the same boring cage.

These are of course my thoughts on the matter and FR and others can expand or contridict what I say but thats how I see what FR types about the subject.

Good Luck
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Jeremy

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