Housing – Commercial Caging
In taking on a monitor that regulates bodily processes using somewhat deep soil burrows and requires a higher humidity gradiant, we can settle on a few things. First, we can take the average in-the-wild burrow depth and say we’ll need soil two feet deep. Second, we know that lots of ventilation (think screen top) kills any chance of holding humidity, so we’ll need an enclosure that’s completely enclosed with very little ventilation.
What can we buy that satisfies these requirements? Currently, nothing. No commercial cage available on the market today is both fully enclosed and will hold two feet of substrate. It’s unfortunately time to get out our wood and tools, and start building a custom cage.