Why a dry cage with external watering you ask. Past bad experiences with spilled water getting the cage too wet & stinky (causing me to toss out bags of calci-sand at $15 /bag!), assorted care sheets and articles I've read about repiratory diseases in desert animals, and a lot of trial and error experiments culminating in positive results associated with this particular technique. Nothing I could prove scientifically, it's just that this method seems to work best for me. The real problem with this particular technique is that it is very hands on....can you say "vacation impact".

I guess now that I've learned to use very well ventilated cages, I could switch to play sand and put in the shallow plate as seen in your post. Maybe then I could actually find someone I trust enough to adequately take care of them and take a real vacation?

BTW....the dwarf Solare isn't really a dwarf any more. It's still small, about 1/2 the size of its sibling, but clearly it's growing and thriving now. Only took a year and a half to "kick in". The sibling on the other hand is a brute, now bigger then the DHL's twice his age. Do you know what should I be expecting for adult Solares weights?

Roger

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