You're welcome.
As always, Nick and Sue are dead on:
Prefab PVC cages are dirt cheap. What we have done is purchased one (per skink) and are in the process of "tricking them out." Skinks have special needs and require more humidity and hotter temps than the snakes we used to keep so the basic "straight from the manufacturer" snake cage won't work.
Sue's Vision setups are killer!
Our cages each came with a Radiant Heat Panel, but they weren't strong enough with the ambient temps in our house and were running all the time which removed the humidity from the air-no good for gigas.
So we added a heat mat to help take the pressure off of the RHP, but running them on the same thermostat didn't work. Now we're trying out a double thermostat on one of the cages that runs two individual probes and heat sources. It's working great. We're buying one for the second cage in a couple of weeks.
We're also working on our substrate strategies.
Round 2 of deworming starts Friday.
Our next decision is whether or not to get a Mist King system or if
I get to continue to be the "Mist King."
Though we've had lots of reptiles, these are our first BTS so we're still working on our "game."
That's what it's all about though. Someone once said to me that none of these animals asked to come live with us, so it's up to us to do our best to care for them.
I really like how Sue's site has a questionnaire that asks if a potential buyer has access to a vet. Kudos, Merauke Mama!
or something.