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Old 04-16-14, 03:20 PM   #5
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Re: New monitor (salvator)

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Originally Posted by Pirarucu View Post
Sorry to be a letdown, but that cage will probably kill him just as surely as he would have died otherwise if it isn't modified soon. First off, bark is not a suitable substrate. He needs soil that he can dig burrows in, and he needs a lot of it. You need to give him a deep layer of loamy soil, as thick as possible.
I don't see a basking area, what heating do you have in his cage?
Don't bother putting calcium and vitamins in his water, the supplements on his food are plenty, and you shouldn't need them at all, really.
Hi, it`s perfectly acceptable to use bark on top of a soil/playsand mix, it holds humidity quite well itself, it will also stop the soil drying out too quickly.
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