I did a pretty big overhaul of the layout yesterday which included moving the basking spot to the center of the enclosure which I think will be good with winter fast approaching. There's enough room that it should still have a good gradient to both sides of the heat. I also moved the water tub to the center. Now that it's starting to get cold outside most of the plants are starting to die down so I brought the 2 big Ferns back in and put them back in the enclosure. I try my best to get an accurate length on Nessie but she never stops moving. The closest I can tell is approximately 30 inches. Since I get to see her every day she still looks so small to me. Another small thing to mention is that when I drilled the new spots for the lights I moved them a little closer together because I never liked how far apart they were before even though they worked fine.


That measuring tape is at 42 inches for reference.

Here she is about to jump down.

You can see that the lip of the basking rock actually goes right over the water a few inches. It doesn't budge at all because it weighs a ton so there's no problem.




In her new burrow annoyed with me for not letting her climb out of the enclosure all day.












I'm thinking that once the leaves start dropping I will put a bunch of leaf litter in. Last year around this time I did the same thing but she was scared of the leaves because she was still just a baby and not nearly as outgoing as she is now.