Operation: Pandora's Box is officially a go! The orders for her new 4'x2'x2', stand, and some artificial foliage are in, and the orders for lighting and Universal Rocks will go in as soon as I hammer out a few more details. Since she'll be living in this cage indefinitely, I decided to just go all-out and build a little slice of south Papuan savanna for her as best as I can. Wasur National Park in the Merauke Regency and the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands are serving as my inspiration.
Hopefully Pandora will enjoy her little slice of her native habitat, along with the new heating and lighting regimen. Since it will probably take the rest of the summer to collect everything and properly build it out, I think I'll be transitioning her out of her now-too-small quarantine tub to some temporary "summer quarters" in the meantime. The current plan is to put a heat bulb and her old heat mat (for back-up nighttime heat) on an old ten gallon tank I have. This will give her a little more room to stretch out, as well as some time to get used to basking under a bulb for daytime heat.
I'm very curious to see how she responds to all of this. Adelita immediately started showing cryptic basking behavior when I first introduced her UV bulb, so it'll be interesting if Pandora does something similar. She won't be getting her UV until she moves into her 4'x2'x2', though, so her response could be different.
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