After reading up on this site about calci-sand, I just recently (like two days ago) cleaned out my dragon's viv and replaced the sand with newspaper. I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong, though -- layering the newspaper flat on the viv. It seems like it's slippery and my bearded's having trouble walking around on it.
Is there any way to fix this, or should I just switch to slate tile?
The tile is easy to clean and you don't have to take everything out to do it plus, I don't like the idea of the ink in the paper. The tile is much different than a loose substrate, just like the paper, he will get used to it.
The tile is easy to clean and you don't have to take everything out to do it plus, I don't like the idea of the ink in the paper. The tile is much different than a loose substrate, just like the paper, he will get used to it.
Unfortunately I don't have any way to get tile right now. My sister is going to college soon, and so my family's trying to cut costs for a little while...I've put paper towel over the newspaper, and that fixes my beardie's traction issues, but I'd still like help in a similar regard: he used to love crawling all over his basking log, but I'm unsure that it'd be stable without particle substrate. When I had sand, I could just wiggle and burrow it into the substrate and it'd be 100% stable, but I don't have any way to do that with paper towel. I'm worried it'll be wiggly or even fall over, which is the absolute last thing I want.
Does anyone have suggestions for securing basking logs on non-particle substrate, paper towel or otherwise?
I have a stone that I put in the middle of the tank. It's not super heavy, but it's enough to safely prop up basking logs and hold them against the corner of the tank.
I have a stone that I put in the middle of the tank. It's not super heavy, but it's enough to safely prop up basking logs and hold them against the corner of the tank.