I got a 6 foot enclosure, with wood top covering 7/8 and screen covering the other 1/8. The Cool end is 70f and humity is like 90. The basking is about 120 . What I did was mix canadian shagnum moss potting soil with water to make nice and moist substarte. I put a log tunnel in the middle. I covered the sides with blck paper. I made half the tank a burrow, and the other side above burrow basking spot. Now he can go from a burrow to a basking spot. He seems to like it. When he see people coming he runs inside the burrow to hide. I also have a water dish in the burrow. WIll this work? I thought it was clever. He can no regulate his humity and temps. As well as thermal regulate him self under he=is uvb or halogen. WHAT DO YOU THINK? I have a millon question about theese creatures.
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New Monitor Keeper HELP PLEASE!
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What species of monitor?
please post photos, you know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Savannah Monitors
Snakes and Lizards, It don't get any better....
A water dish within the burrow? Doesnt than then require you to dismantle the hide spot every time you change the water? That might well erode what little sense of security the lizard has to begin with.... I would think you would do best to view the hide spots like the bedroom of a teenager...just stay out unless its an emergency! Let them have a space where they know they're not going to be bothered...just a thought....
Guy
