Savannah Monitor Enclousure

[Bosc08]

Hay Everybody. I have a question, well my savannah monior at 15 inches (male) is in a 48 x 18x 18 enclousure and I was wodering at what size Lucky (name of monitor) needs a larger cage? Also would aspen make a good supstrat?

P.S. When I feed my monitor I'll put him in a seperate container for feeding, because of two reasons... 1 - Lizard/Snake may think anything that eneters enclousure may be food. 2 - Lizard/Snake may digest bedding when eatting.

:)Thank You For Your Time:)

[spidersweb]

you should strt to build him a cage now for when he'll be 4 ft they grow really fast mine over 30 inch and i bought him as a baby a year ago

[Boostedneon04]

for now that cage will do..when hes fully grown i would suggest a 8 foot long by 4 foot wide by 4 feet high..this will give enough height for you to make a deep enough beeding for him to borrow in..it will also give him enough room to free roam.make sure u have a large water bowl like a rubbermade tub or sumthing about 3 feet long so he had lay in the water...they tend to do this alot when there sheeding but also will use it everyday to take a quick dip and cool off.

[Aaron_S]

Aspen is a poor choice of substrate. It doesn't allow the lizard to dig and create tunnels, which to my knowledge, savannah's love to do.

[Boostedneon04]

Aspen is a poor choice of substrate. It doesn't allow the lizard to dig and create tunnels, which to my knowledge, savannah's love to do.

yes you are correct..my sav as well as blackthroat dig threw out the day atleast a 100 times..looking for food,makin a borrow there very active during the day