after allthe waiting and searching i found my new Sumatran water. pics

[mr~python]

take a drive out to a dry creek bed, thats where the best dirt is. do you know where any are?

[fish21]

no but i will start looking around when i am driving.

[mr~python]

lol, i guess im lucky. at our 22 acres we have a seasonal creek and it has the best sandy dirt.

[fish21]

i will proabbly just leave him on orchid bark till we move back to iowa in about 6 months. all the dirt in the world there. he is so active. my savannaha is just a bump on a log. dont get me wrong i love him verry much he just dosent move verry much.LOL the water is all over the place.
matt

[mr~python]

he's probably so active right now because of the new environment.

i just remembered this, you can make your own soil mix. go to your local home depot or lowes and get a bag of top soil without any additives or anything and mix it in a 1:1 ratio with playsand. ive never done it myself but ive heard it works.

[fish21]

great thanks for the advice.
matt

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

I really am getting tired of dirt for my sav. I currently use a 1.1 mixture of sand and soil. He doesn't burrow at all so I don't see much of a reason for dirt anymore.

[mr~python]

if your monitor isnt burrowing he's telling you "wrong dirt, try again".

[fish21]

do you have a pic of your monitor

[mr~python]

yes, here's a few. none of them are too recent though.
when i first got him (i was surprised how tiny he was!):

here's the most recent. he looks dull in them beecause he was just entering a shed cycle and the fact that he's covered in dirt doesnt help, LOL. (about 3 weeks ago):

(without flash)

(with flash on the same day)

i dont have any of him now and he's grown a lot since then.