Reptile & Amphibian Forums

A friend of mine owns quite a bit of property near me, and during my first trip up there, I noticed a fairly large bank of dirt that birds had made several nest hollows in. Went to investigate, and found the BEST monitor dirt possible. This stuff is a sandy soil thats so fine it feels almost like flour. When moistened then dried, will hold a burrow strongly. I nabbed 3 large buckets full. Just got done setting up my baby savannah with it. Prefabbed him a burrow under the basking rock, since he probably has no idea how to burrow yet. I'll do my much larger nile with the rest of the dirt later today. His cage will take much more effort. LOL. Anyway, i just wanted to share. This stuff is GREAT!

-----
DarkWave Exotics

Currently keeping:
1.1 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.1 macklots python
1.1 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
1.1 ball pythons
1.1 pastel BCI
1.1 argentine boas
1.0 sonoran boa
2.2 albino and het albino chinese beauty snakes
1.0 cave beauty
1.2 taiwan beauties
1.1 cornsnakes(anery and snow)
0.1 nile monitor
0.0.2 savannah monitor
2.5 leopard geckos

NP

Looks good! I envy you, all the dirt I could find around here turns into a slimy mess as soon as it gets wet, and dries into a concrete-like cake. Of course, I also need about half a ton of dirt per cage, so a couple of buckets will not do it.

Luke

LOL yeah.. all the dirt we have near me is clay and rock.. I went up to the Tall Trees place and they have LOADS of this kind of dirt on their property. See, time to move back to seattle.

>>Looks good! I envy you, all the dirt I could find around here turns into a slimy mess as soon as it gets wet, and dries into a concrete-like cake. Of course, I also need about half a ton of dirt per cage, so a couple of buckets will not do it.
>>
>>Luke
-----
DarkWave Exotics

Currently keeping:
1.1 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.1 macklots python
1.1 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
1.1 ball pythons
1.1 pastel BCI
1.1 argentine boas
1.0 sonoran boa
2.2 albino and het albino chinese beauty snakes
1.0 cave beauty
1.2 taiwan beauties
1.1 cornsnakes(anery and snow)
0.1 nile monitor
0.0.2 savannah monitor
2.5 leopard geckos

Where the hell is the lizard supposed to bask? It should also be able to feel secure while basking (that means be hidden from view). Did everyone in the chat not drill you about screen tops? Monitors know how to bask from the time they hatch.

Your picture is interpreted as abuse by many goanna enthusiasts.

- Clay -

GoannaChat