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Most of my lizards are outdoors in enclosures with subterranean leaf-litter boxes to dig into for winter brumation.
I have very young tegus (Argentine B&W, and Reds), and I'd like to build large enclosures - perhaps 8'x4' or so. The question is, what kind of bottom do I need to keep them from digging out? If I sink the walls down a couple feet, will they just dig down and not come back up elsewhere outside of the walls? Do I need to set a wire mesh beneath the whole thing?
Ideally, what I had in mind was to just set my walls into the ground a couple feet deep, and build them a den box below the ground (near the middle of the enclosure) to use for sleeping, shelter, etc.
Is there anyone here who has done such a thing?
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