Is it ok to use playsand as substrate for ackies and just put in a laybox or digging box, instead of putting deep substrate throught?
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Ackies
bigdee
Oct 11, 2003 03:04 PM
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SHvar
Oct 11, 2003 09:18 PM
Sand does not hold a burrow and ackies love to dig constantly, not only that but sand drains water through it rather than holding any water. Moisture is important to monitors because they live in high temps and need to conserve moisture by going underground. Even the desert monitor V griseus lives in a dirt sand mixture in the wild.
Iv mixed sand with the dirt to help compact it and give it a structure but in a small percentage. My monitors live in the same dirt, a combination of what I obtained from a creek bank and some from the woods nearby with a small percentage of sand included. My large cage alone took between 12-15 trips with the car to get about a hundred lbs at a time or more. I mixed 60lbs of sand into several hundred lbs of dirt in the bottom half of that cage.
gecko_king
Oct 13, 2003 04:54 PM
>>Is it ok to use playsand as substrate for ackies and just put in a laybox or digging box, instead of putting deep substrate throught?
My Ackies love sand. I would not use anything else
David
