I just got a trio of collareds today. They had a rougher trip than expected due to an unfortunate weather change, but their turnaround was amazing! After the first hour or so of basking they were as happy as kittens in a superball factory. Or perhaps just as happy as superballs... in a cricket factory... if superballs ate crickets while bouncing from brick tower to brick tower all day long.
So anyway, I'm not losing sleep over their daytime housing. I'll continue to tweak it as I see, hear, or think of ways to make it even better, but there certainly seems to be no stress in that particular area.
What I'm not so sure about is how they like best to sleep. I set up a variety of cave types, all positioned for horizontal sleeping positions. When I got home from work tonight, their lights had already clicked off and I can't see for sure where two are (I need to get a red light so I can spy on them better) but at least one has opted to sleep hanging onto the side of the largest but lowest basking platform, squeezed between there and the back wall of the tank.
Are vertical crevices a common thing for them to utilize at night? I hadn't really thought of that possibility. I can easily do some rearranging to make a few more of those, but since this is their first night I don't know if what I'm seeing is an actual normal preference or simply a lizard who got surprised when the lights clicked off and decided to just sleep someplace close to where she'd been basking at the time.
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0.1 2006 Western Hognose (Bebe)
0.1 age unknown Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 2005 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 2006 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)
1.0 2006 Madagascan Speckled "Hognose" (Sigmund)
1.0 2008 Bullsnake (Winkle)
1.2 2008 Eastern Collared Lizards (Pancho, Lupe, and Chica)
