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Hello....Hope everyone has a safe holiday !!

Maybe someone remembers my post earlier this month-I had taken my Uro to the vet to be dewormed !!
Well, I am happy to say she just finished her last dose of panacur on thursday & I will be having another fecal done in 3 wks...

In the mean time......I have decided to put her back in her normal tank.....well, temporarily. I only have 2-3" of sand in there right now until I can be sure the parasites are gone.

She just didn't like the lizard carpet at all. She wouldn't even wake up to eat !!

But as soon as she got in "HER" tank she perked right up....explored everything.....ate her veggies...buried the caves I made her & her dish with lentil & split peas ( she loves split peas )......
and started digging her own cave under her food dish.
Which I feel real bad about because as she digs.....the dry sand just falls back in !!

I can't wait to try the soil mixes I found on Robin's Proexotics site...She's going to love it !!

Thanks for listening guys ....I'll be reading & learning more & hope to have something to contribute too.

happy memorial day weekend to you too. i always thought it was a rather odd name and should just be called "memorial weekend"
glad to hear that your lizard is doing well. looks nice and hardy.
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

I'm sure your uro will love the dirt. I don't have tanks (or space) to provide my animals with huge enclosures with two feet of sand, but I have found a combination that works rather well for uros in standard tanks. Here's what I've done, and so far my fat little mali loves it.

I made a sand and dirt mixture. I couldn't find vermiculite, so I left it out for now since it isn't really necessary for this setup. I filled it into the tank, 2-2.5" deep on one side, and then a little higher on the other. I took apart a previously made retes stack (look for in on PE's site) about 12"x10", so I was left with two little hides about 2" tall, and when placed together so that the openings meet, I was left with a 20"x12" hide (next time I'll start fresh and make it all one piece). I dug out a little dirt on the deeper side of the tank just on the sides where the 1x2's of the stach pieces would go in, and I sunk them in so that the dirt would fill in the hide. Then I just started a little bit of a burrow by myself at the entrance and by the end of the night, she'd burrowed almost all of the way in. I put the articial burrow on the hot side, but since it's so large it has a gradient inside that she can choose from, as well as a humidity gradient. I'm going to make a single 12"x10" burrow on the cool side of her too. so far this has worked out well, and the crappy metal tank stand my tank is on is still holding up fine.

Good luck with the uro.

wow thanks for the ideas Ryan !! I am not familiar with a "retes stack" so I know what I will be doing today.....back to PE's site LOL

I am having the hardest time finding soil without additives..... I'm still searching !!

and look for "organic" soil. Organic anything usually means it contains no additives.

Hope this helps
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1 Mali Uromastyx named Ra

Email me (click on my name) and I will send you a picture of my setup, which illustrates both the retes stack, and the idea I have employed.