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05-31-13, 07:11 AM
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What do you think?
Sooo, now that my lovely Savannah is back on track and now 19 inches long. I still dont have her Adult enclosure yet. I dont want a bunch of rude obnoxious comments, because that tends to happen on this site. Just politely tell me what you think. I want whats best for my little Zazu.
What do you think about having a smaller enclosure with 1 1/2 - 2 feet dirt/soil mixture for her to borrow in (smaller meaning 6x4 ish), but having the run of my bathroom during the day? She only goes in her borrow at night. But I could still have maybe a ramp to climb up to her cage during the day.... The bathroom is easiest to keep the humidity. I run a humidifier in there and it stays nice and humid. My bathroom is definitely big enough, its pretty good sized and I could set her up a basking area.
I havent done this yet but I think it would work well until I get a monster sized enclosure. I have a friend with a savannah, tegus and a skink that run around his whole house all day :-/ I couldnt do that. Im not crazy like that. Plus I have cats and dogs, rodents, a squirrel etc... and I think Zazu would LOVE to eat them haha.
So what do you all think???
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05-31-13, 07:23 AM
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Re: What do you think?
I think youre friend is slowly doing a great deal of harm to that savannah and tegu internally.
If you can build it a 6x4 foot cage then that will suffice for the time being. While increased space is always best for the enrichment of the animal, that size of cage is not something that is going to be terminal. However, allowing it outside its set environment for great lengths of time is. Those parameters are important for numerous functions of the animal, and its going to be pretty much impossible for you to recreate that in a bathroom. I would suggest leaving it in the cage and just taking it out for a half hour a day.
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05-31-13, 07:23 AM
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Re: What do you think?
It's not really a substitute for having real space inside the enclosure, but far better than what most people offer.
I would skip the all day bathroom thing in favor of maybe a couple hours here and there per week.
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05-31-13, 07:34 AM
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Re: What do you think?
why out of curiosity dont you like the bathroom idea?
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05-31-13, 09:53 AM
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Re: What do you think?
can you keep your bathroom like equator hot? Savannah Monitors are burrowing animals, and they prefer a hole to scoot down. It's just not in the animal's best interest health wise to keep too cool and not have burrows available for long periods of time.
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05-31-13, 09:56 AM
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Re: What do you think?
What infernalis said. Even though it is never 100% possible, it is our responsibility to do the best we can to recreate the natural habitat of our animals. A bathroom is in no way suitable for this.
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05-31-13, 09:58 AM
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Re: What do you think?
If she has a big deep bathtub that she wants to ruin by filling with dirt she can knock out the substrate problem 
Humidity and heat required for a sav over time would probably do a number on your bathroom. Nevermind what the sav himself would do to the walls etc.
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05-31-13, 11:12 AM
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Re: What do you think?
Well... right now its 75% humidity and 82 degrees in there. PHEW! and im not worried about damaging the bathroom. I live in a ghetto apartment haha. I was thinking about getting a galvanized stock tank.. you can get 6 or 8 feet for her substrate... That would work pretty good!
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05-31-13, 11:43 AM
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Re: What do you think?
Like one of these. I see a lot of people online actually build a wooden frame around them and make a cage. IMG_0130.jpg
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05-31-13, 11:56 AM
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Re: What do you think?
Quote:
Originally Posted by mygabriella
Well... right now its 75% humidity and 82 degrees in there. PHEW! and im not worried about damaging the bathroom. I live in a ghetto apartment haha. I was thinking about getting a galvanized stock tank.. you can get 6 or 8 feet for her substrate... That would work pretty good!
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Your landlord may be worried about you destroying the bathroom.
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05-31-13, 12:37 PM
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Re: What do you think?
Its like that on its own right now!!! Its freakin 90 degrees and sooo humid outside. I cant help that! LOL
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05-31-13, 12:39 PM
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Re: What do you think?
Lol I feel bad for your landlord
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05-31-13, 12:41 PM
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Re: What do you think?
Im the good tenant. Ive put down new floors, pained all the walls, put in the correct bathroom ceiling tiles, new light fixtures, rewired outlets.... This place is a dump. Ive made it better... less embarrassing. BUT i cannot help that if I open the window when its 90 degrees is super humid and hot. I have a fan running in there with the door open and its like 84 degrees now with 75% humidity.
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05-31-13, 12:44 PM
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Re: What do you think?
im also the one who cleans the apartments after disgusting people finally move out. im not a bad tenant. Last week it was 40 degrees, this week its 90 and humid, welcome to new england.
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05-31-13, 01:16 PM
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Re: What do you think?
Wow lol
Here in California it doesn't really get humid it just gets in the 100s a lot,
Very hot, especially if your all around mountains, just dry & hot!!
But I'm use to it lol
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