Sunday, April 24, 2011

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Location of Defecation Stations

40 gallon tank with no hide box
Control- Male uses old defecation station, females use mirrored location., as shown in figure 2.
Arrangement 1- mirrored location used for all 4 animals, males first defecation in center as shown in figure 3
Arrangement 2- mirrored location used as shown in figure 4, same location relative to the placement of terrain
Arrangement 3- mirrored location used as shown in figure 4, same location relative to the placement of terrain


40 gallon tank with hide box
Defecation station is located wherever hide box is without any cleaning, regardless of previous location of defecation station.

30 gallon male tank
Defecation station was in bottom right hand corner at all times
Introduced males used same defecation station
Very seldom was there feces in the hides.

Tupperware containers
Defecation station was furthest away from the side with water in all cases

Round containers
Defecation station was on one half of the circle, less apparent.


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