This is a general picture of the house itself. It's about 12' x 10' with a sloping roof which I chose to shingle rather than glaze in order to help keep the heat down (and the burglars out) in the summer. It's attached to the house, so I simply step from the living room down into it! The substrate shown here is playsand, but I found it was a bit too dusty, so since the photograph was taken, I have replaced it with a topsoil mix in order to try and grow plants. So far, nearly everything has died because of the heat or because the dragons either eat it or trample it, but eventually I'll find something that they won't eat, isn't poisonous and can stand the temperatures and dryness! Currently I have Spider Plant in there- it's not poisonous, they don't seem to want to eat it and it's still alive! The fake fences are old cedar post and rail, attached to plywood bases which are held in place by the weight of the substrate. They are attached to each other with 3" decking screws. I have used 3 pairs of wall mounted spotlights with ZooMed bulbs to provide heat and for UVA/UVB I have 2 double 4' fluorescent units mounted on the walls; each one with one 4' ZooMed 5.0 bulb and one 'warm' regular fluorescent bulb. For extra light (!) I also have two four foot fluorescent units mounted on the ceiling; each one hold four bulbs (just cheapies).
Here is one of 1999's juveniles - Dusty. I provide fresh vegetables every day in several bowls so that there are no feeding conflicts. Also, I have found that in a large area, they like to browse on vegetation throughout the day as they wander around, thermoregulating. Having several bowls helps reduce the damage to the plants (but not much)!
One of my favourite feeding places is the stump you can just see at the bottom of the main picture. I can sit on that with a bowl of kingworms and they will converge on me and climb up my legs to see what they can steal before it's all gone.
The last picture shows all of 1999's juveniles (except Whitey Biggins who is still too small to be in with the rest of them), sitting all together on the stump, wondering why the heck I just put them there when there's no food to be had!
