fishead
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Howdy, here's a couple of pics of my varanus brevicauda that I promised rams that I'd post up.
They're one of my favourites to sit and watch. They are active, not shy or spooky and I'm sure you'll agree are very beautiful little critters.
I used to have glass dividers between those basking spots to keep them housed individually while they grew up so I could monitor (nice pun me) their food intake and stop any bullying. I recently did away with all of the dividers except for one and all are getting along well. Hopefully there'll be some eggs this season. I've seen two evert hemipenes after a crap and one has laid a clutch of slugs so there's at leat one girl amongst the five.
The dichroics on a track work well. They come in a kit at Bunnings and you can easily adjust them in height to give you whatever basking temperature you're after. Each globe is 20w and it's around 60 degrees on the basking spots. I think it's good to have a few basking spots in there and the small globes don't super heat the whole enclosure. Little monitors need a hot hot spot but also need to be able to escape that heat. There's a flouro up in the top too.
Oh yeah I took the sliding glass doors out for the pic. The glass front you can see there stops anything getting out if you leave a door open and stops sand getting in the door tracks, a good thing on terrestrial gecko enclosures too!
Hooroo, Steve.
They're one of my favourites to sit and watch. They are active, not shy or spooky and I'm sure you'll agree are very beautiful little critters.
I used to have glass dividers between those basking spots to keep them housed individually while they grew up so I could monitor (nice pun me) their food intake and stop any bullying. I recently did away with all of the dividers except for one and all are getting along well. Hopefully there'll be some eggs this season. I've seen two evert hemipenes after a crap and one has laid a clutch of slugs so there's at leat one girl amongst the five.
The dichroics on a track work well. They come in a kit at Bunnings and you can easily adjust them in height to give you whatever basking temperature you're after. Each globe is 20w and it's around 60 degrees on the basking spots. I think it's good to have a few basking spots in there and the small globes don't super heat the whole enclosure. Little monitors need a hot hot spot but also need to be able to escape that heat. There's a flouro up in the top too.
Oh yeah I took the sliding glass doors out for the pic. The glass front you can see there stops anything getting out if you leave a door open and stops sand getting in the door tracks, a good thing on terrestrial gecko enclosures too!
Hooroo, Steve.
Just wandering, for the glass dividers, are they on tracks aswell? Or do they sort of just sit there? I know theres only one in the picture but just intrigued by it thats all. Also, whats the name of those light fittings that have the adjustable lengths?
