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[QUOTE="ChileanTaco, post: 2045472, member: 118921"] What you currently have, this for sure has to change. It's not good for your dragon. You could try some "solid substrate", like tiles. Or you could change out the sand to a mixture of playsand, organic soil without fertilizer, plus some burrowing clay [URL="https://zoomed.com/excavator-clay-burrowing-substrate/"]Excavator® Clay Burrowing Substrate | Zoo Med Laboratories, Inc.[/URL] (What I have is real desert sand as I'm living in a town in the Atacama desert, but you likely won't have such available.) Put that in, and mist it about once a week lightly with a spray bottle. (It's clear that the spray bottle should never ever have been used with something else than plain water. If you ever used your plant spray bottle with fertilizer, pesticides or such, you need a separate one.) This is not to make the sand permanently wet, but it dries quickly and hardens. I compare it to "like on a trail". Given what you have you might try misting it, or adding some burrowing clay first and then misting it. I have this setup now close to a year. No dust wherever, my dragon is clean (I wear black clothes, my dragon regularly climbs around on me and I would recognize it if there would come some dust off from him), the glass is clean, and also I don't get dirty when I have to do something inside the enclosure (also no dust on lamps or such). So none of the problems you describe. What I also like is that poo/urate can be removed easily - I remove that part of the sand, and it's gone, no scrubbing of things like tiles. [/QUOTE]
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