Hi Guys,

What your using Chad is what I used many years ago with Blacktrees. Coco fiber and sand mix. I use that for colubrids as well.

One thought for leaflitter. Its normally only a few inches deep, then it composts into something like coco fiber.

When we where breeding lacies, we used deep leaflitter and it always break down into that compost material.

When gathering leaflitter, it was the same. Deep leaflitter was compost.

Recently I acquired a trio of greentrees and they without question burrow in ackie nesting material. deep sandy material. I do cover it with leaflitter. One female likes to sit in her burrow, with her nose sticking out of the leaflitter.

About the ground or elevated nesting.

I think people are the ones who get fooled by thinking about whats on the bottom of cages as the ground. People tend to think something on the bottom of the cage is the ground. And something higher up is aboreal. When all the while monitors are smarter then us and much less literal, They take whatever it is, as what it is. Not the ground or aboreal. Its merely something on the bottom of the cage. Not terestrial or aboreal, etc. Just material they can use.

If you think about it, its the ackies that get fooled. If the nesting substrate is on the bottom of a trough, then its above the ground level and is in fact elevated or aboreal. So shame on the ackies.

Why keepers think the substrate is the ground is truely amazing. It must be a human thing. As its clearly not.

Anyhow Congrats Chad and it was horrible to hear about your fire. Take your time and work through it slowly. Best wishes

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