Got a 40 gal tank, 3' long, 1 1/2' deep, 1 1/2' high. 5-6" of substrate, 1 part sand, 2 part soil. Loose enough for easy borrowing. It's made deep enough to come up to the top of a 1.1 gal tupperware water dish. Dish isn't a full 6" deep, closer to 4", it sits inside a second, identical one so I can lift it out and not have the hole fill in. Dish has two rocks for climbing out, a pothos vine hanging down into it, and an ultra sonic humidifier set for three 30-40 minute (inexact timer) on periods a day.
Has two branch structures that each go 6-8 inchs high. Temps on those is 85-87, temp on ground surface is around 78-81, and under the soil it gets down to 75. Overall of 69-75 at night depending on time of the year.
Two pothos plants, and four Oracaena Marginata Tricolors (tall grass). The pothos are potish things that go about inch and a half above ground level, and several inchs below it, with fully open bottoms. Grasses are set in perferated plastic tubes that are inch diamiter, and 3 inchs deep. Pots and tubes are there to protect root base from burrowers.
On top of the tank is n 8" high wooden boxish thing I build. Wooden front, sides, and top, screened back. This houses and hides the light structures so they are inside the tank. Includes a 40 watt incandesant on either end, and an uv floresent light. Hinged top allowes for easy access into tank.
Ambient humidity in the air tends to be only around 40-45 during the day with the lights on, but goes upwards of 70 at night.
Plan is for either a single fire skink, or a male/female pair. Aiming more for a pair as your twice as likly one's not burrowed.
Asmodea Drey'Haus
