New lace monitor enclosure!! Do they hate it? 

What part of WA?

@@richardbinkley8487 South West, like 45 min North of Portland

@@donna7243 nice, I'm in Oly. I'm guessing you have to keep them indoors all year?

I didn’t. There’s no need to sanitize the wood.

If I get my wood from outside I normally sanitize it so the wood doesn't have any pests or harmful things.

I personally just do dish soap + scrub brush + water (at least for things like Aspen branches). Depending on where you get the wood it's probably unnecessary, but that should take care of most mites, gnats, other small insects, and insecticides. I suppose results may vary if there are cracks that you can't reach. I've heard of people actually sanitizing their wood with a dilute bleach solution. I think Professor Herp and Serpa Design both do this. At least for Serpa Design, this sort of makes sense; he uses a lot of sensitive plants that won't get cleaned by rain, so a single aphid getting through could be pretty devastating. However, as Jakob Herning said, there's probably no need for an enclosure like this. Unless something like a bird with bird flu pooped on the wood in the past couple of days or there were some poisonous mushrooms growing on the wood, there's really no reason to truly kill everything, IMHO.

I have about 4K in the enclosure. Lace monitors go for 3500 each.

@@aguyfromalabama I've wanted to do exactly something like this! There isn't many videos on YT. But I think mine will be for Varanids. And maybe some other species that won't bother each other. Where is this, basement? Warehouse?

No it’s bio active. I just turn it ever so often.

@@aguyfromalabama what makes it bio active and won’t the shit build up and make it Smell horrible after awhile

@@liamsanjose5112 the substrate is made of leaf litter, sand, top soil, and coco coir. All of the except the coco came from natural sources and keep the small bugs that break down the poop. Typically I don’t even see the poop. And there is no smell at all!

@@aguyfromalabama do the bugs ever get out of the enclosure and if so are they a risk to being invasive?

@@reapersexotics1129 in general, when you have a bioactive enclosure, the bugs are just happy to stay where they are. They're tiny so they find it easy to escape but they don't. One or two might eventually make their way out but you will never have a big breeding colony of something that you don't want. Their food and they're hiding places are all inside the enclosure

You are awesome!! Thank you!!

@@aguyfromalabama How are they liking all the space ?

@@krazylacrosse19 so far so good man! They seem to love it!