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Thanks. I'll heed your advice. I had potting soil before but, for some unknown reason, I found mites/small bugs in it so I switched to bark. I'll head back to potting soil shortly because I honestly forgot about the burying thing.
So you're saying I should keep the heat mat, add a space heater and put a water bowl with a napkin so my sling doesn't drown? Ha.. j/k (inside joke, in my head that is). FeeBeeDawn, if Chubbs suggests you get rid of the heat mat and get a space heater, I would take his advice. I've secretly...
The paper in the water dish is there so he wouldn't drown when he was a sling. After a while, I left it in there so the crickets wouldn't drown either. I much prefer the rocks like you have in your water dish. I've just been lazy to find 3 or 4 small, nice looking rocks.
Very simple, clean and cool looking set up. I have something similar (pictures soon to come). I like the look of the rocks in the water. Gotta "upgrade" my enclosure with that.
Come to think of it, I need to follow this feeding schedule or something like it. I cant stand crickets and I've been alternating between superworms and dubai roaches. I have small colonies of both. Super easy to care for them. To give my T a true mixed diet, I guess I have to include...