Red Ackies

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Large wooden red ackie enclosure with a basking area, substrate, plants, and ventilation openings.
Our custom home for the ackie was made by Aquatic Oaks. It measures over 7’Lx2’Dx3’T and has over a foot of substrate depth.
Stacked bags of all-purpose sand for enclosure substrate.
We use play sand and top soil from Menards to fill our Ackie enclosure with substrate.
Flat basking stones beneath overhead enclosure lighting.
Internal furnishings of our enclosure. A limestone slab pile, cork tube, a couple sansevieria plants and a large hardwood tree root. For lighting we have a cluster of neodymium incandescent bulbs for basking. UVB is provided by a 4’ Arcadia T5Pro 14% linear bulb and fuxture.
Red ackie hatchlings gathered around eggshells in an incubation container.
Young red ackie monitor resting on a keeper’s finger.
Two red ackie monitors resting together on a rock surface.