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This is Hades, I just want to know what you think of him, like if he looks happy, healthy anything.

Just so everyone knows, I have a dog, and she checks in on him everyday so the marks on his terrarium glass wall are marks from her wet nose.

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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

his cage loox pretty dirty, can u show a pic of his whole cage?

I'll post a pic of his whole tank when we get the camera to work again. Those pics were taken at about 7 this morning, I used a kodak disposable camera for it.

See the big log in the pic, that's losing pieces of the wood at the top the bark or whatever you wanna call it.

I have a question, Hades everytime he poo's scoots his coconut over his poo and I guess he's trying to hide it. Is that normal or what?
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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

He can't possibly get any type of grip on a bare bottom tank to move around. It also makes it easier to clean up. When you remove the soiled substrate, there is less fecal material in the tank itself.

Now,,, the "Dog" marks on the tank. That has to scare the crap out of the dragon. Stress is the #1 killer of most all reptiles and that my friend is pure stress!
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Joel R

Coming some day.
www.SpikesAndScales.com

>>He can't possibly get any type of grip on a bare bottom tank to move around. It also makes it easier to clean up. When you remove the soiled substrate, there is less fecal material in the tank itself.
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>>Now,,, the "Dog" marks on the tank. That has to scare the crap out of the dragon. Stress is the #1 killer of most all reptiles and that my friend is pure stress!
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>>Joel R
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>>Coming some day.
>>www.SpikesAndScales.com

Actually Hades is quite fond of the family dog. Everytime he's out he wants to run around on her belly and sometimes he even falls asleep on her. I make sure she's clean before he touches her though. She gets bathed every 5 days because she loves rolling around on grass outside. So everytime he's near her she's just been washed.

I had had reptile carpet in there but his nails got stuck to the carpet. I had a vitamin/calcium sand mix in there but then he started eating it because he thought it tasted good. I always dust his crickets, worms and sometimes food with calcium.

So I figured tile would be the best because its easy for me to clean up poop (and it doesn't stick to the tile like it did with his carpet). All I have to do is take him out and let him play with someone watching him and I take a hot rag and wash out his enclosure.

I think I'll move him on top of something else because the stand he's on now is lower then my dog when she stands on her hind legs. I gotta build a stand anyways so I'll make extra room for him on top of it.

What type of substrate do you think I should use then? Should I just get like a slate type tile and break some pieces and put sand in between the pieces or what?

I've seen people do this with gecko's and thats what I plan on doing with mine so....

Any help on the susbtrate would be nice
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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

I would stay away from anything porous such as slate. There is no way you will be able to get all the nasties out of it (by just wiping it)

I would go with either play sand, if you want the more natural look, or go with paper towel, shelf liner, or similar. Something that can be removed when soiled & the tank can be spot cleaned.
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Joel R

Coming some day.
www.SpikesAndScales.com

Actually slate isn't porous. However there are different types of slate. Some of which are porous but the type I want to use isn't porous at all, its the type you'd install as a kitchen or bathroom floor its tile but its not like laminated.

I think I'm gonna go look at tiles tomorrow at Lowes to see what all they got in stock.
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GUY: You know I have a tendency to grow on people.
GAL: Yeah, so does fungus.

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."