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12-05-12, 06:23 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
And to help with your Image crisis
Simply insert your HOSTED URL link from the browser of the direct image between these tags.
[IMG] INSERT URL HERE WITH NO SPACES [/IMG]
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12-05-12, 06:40 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
I believe she's talking about the book I have linked to on my web site.
There are only two things on that whole site anyone can buy, temp guns & Daniel's book.
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12-05-12, 07:08 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
I appreciate that your site is not opinion based Infernalis.
But truth is there is so much bull on the internet anymore its very hard to know whats real info and whats not.So its always been my habit to check out as many different resources as possible. Anyway your right the ebook was just okay.I just did a quick read of the whole thing while eating dinner, minus the breeding part, skipped over that.
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12-05-12, 07:16 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
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12-05-12, 07:17 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
you forgot the / in the last IMG tag.
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12-05-12, 07:18 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
You need to get on the substrate. He won't survive without the burrows. How did your rubbermaid enclosure work out?
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12-05-12, 07:21 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
Thanks for fixing it..So that is a pic of Jim. Here are the pics of the tank he came in.
And pics of the one I just finished.
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12-05-12, 07:24 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
His prior sub par care is evident, patchy skin and a kinda thin tail base.
Get him set up, and then let him eat, let him eat often.
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12-05-12, 07:27 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
OK, I am looking at this objectively, the quickest way to get that lizard into proper conditions will be to put a sheet of plywood over the top of the tank, scrap the whole bin idea.
Give me a minute, I have some pictures of temporary tops that people have built.
Then put a bunch of dirt in the bottom, slope up one end so the lizard can dig into the side of the slope, and it will be so much better than anything it's ever had.
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12-05-12, 07:28 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
They fed him boiled eggs mostly and some mice. Ive got 4 inches of soil in the cage.ITs what I had mixed already.I will get the rest in tomorrow and give him another good soak and put him the new cage.I think I can get a foot of soil in it and that leaves about a foot of space for him...I will start a real cage after christmas.
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12-05-12, 07:28 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
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12-05-12, 07:34 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
But he can reach the top of the tank, its only a 40 gal. He also has noserub from running his nose on the screen top.Not arguing but by the time I build a wood top and get the light fixtures, I could have the other cage ready to go.
Is it because he cant see out of the plastic that it would be worse then the glass tank?
BTW I really do appreciate the time your taking to help out.
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12-05-12, 07:50 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
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Originally Posted by Chandra2
But he can reach the top of the tank, its only a 40 gal. He also has noserub from running his nose on the screen top.Not arguing but by the time I build a wood top and get the light fixtures, I could have the other cage ready to go.
Is it because he cant see out of the plastic that it would be worse then the glass tank?
BTW I really do appreciate the time your taking to help out.
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No, in fact it's probably better for the moment that he wouldn't be able to see out. He's almost certainly quite terrified at the moment without any good places to hide such as burrows. If the bin idea would be quicker, go with that. You may also want to try to cover up some of that screen somehow, otherwise you will be losing a lot of humidity, which means it will simulate the dry season. As a result, he will spend much more time hunkered down in his burrows.
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12-05-12, 07:54 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
Also, scrap the soaking, You're just stressing him out, and its really not needed. setup the burrowing, and his shedding will swing around.
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12-05-12, 08:00 PM
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Re: Newbie who needs help...LONG
Speaking of stressing, I'm sure all of this is stressing Chandra2.... 
The reason we can't stress the burrows enough is that this species of lizard lives underground most of it's life.
For over a decade now, people have been forcing them to live above ground, and the end results are always the same every time.
To date, over one half million Savannah Monitors have perished in the pet trade due to improper caging and no opportunity to burrow.
So the subject does spark some very passionate responses.
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