[Socratic Monologue]

I've brainstormed a few ways to keep leucomelas based on their wild habitat and captive preferences, and never once did I even get close to a tidal paludarium.

I'm curious how the reasoning from the needs of that species to the described design went. What are the considerations around keeping a dripwall and saturated substrate dry enough for a sometimes grassland species that aestivates during the dry season? It isn't clear how deposited tads will be safe during tidal changes.

Also interesting to know would be the reasoning for reducing the useable footprint of the viv to what looks to be about half of that available -- so, about 240sq inches, roughly 75% of what many keepers would consider the absolute bare minimum footprint for a pair of leucs.

 

[Socratic Monologue]

'Experimenting' is something I personally think shouldn't be done with live animals that the experimenter has no baseline experience with and very little knowledge of. Even with experience and knowledge, experimentation with animals ought to be done to improve the situation of the animals, rather than show off technological prowess.

Just my 2 cents after keeping scores of species for decades. Other people have other views on how we ought to use animals, I suppose.