ceramic tile in an enclosure?

[Rover15]

I have an adult female hermann and she has long nails and beak I have had her less then a week and with feeding her on a rough piece of slate I can hear and see it is grinding and she is still eating fine so I know in due time her beak will be under control with out trimming.

Her nails however are my concern I have river rock under the basking light but I'm still not sure if that is enough. I have some branches for her to climb over but I'm looking at adding ceramic tile(s) has any one done this? Do you think it will help?

I would place the tile either outside the two hides I have or even in the large water dish I'm going to add (it is the bottom of a plastic pet carrier has a 1.5" pan to hold water) I figured it would be better traction then the smooth plastic

Thoughts and opinions welcomed

Also side question where is the best spot to place a water dish? Is one spot better then an other? I have a smaller dish that she can just fit in to under the mvb.

 

[ascott]

I would use slate yules rather than ceramic....ceramic gets slick and slippery and the slate works more efficiently. You could also move the water fish a little to the side of the MVB incase she wants to simply bask and not soak...also if she should flip going in or out of the water dish you would not want her upside down under the extreme heat source...

 

[Rover15]

I would use slate yules rather than ceramic....ceramic gets slick and slippery and the slate works more efficiently. You could also move the water fish a little to the side of the MVB incase she wants to simply bask and not soak...also if she should flip going in or out of the water dish you would not want her upside down under the extreme heat source...

My mvb doesn't get hot enough to bask I'm thinking of lowering it right now it is about 2 ft in the air (bottom of deep dome to substrate) I have a seaperate basking bulb but I will place the water dish up agaise the wall where the mvb is it is right to the side.

The tile I was thinking what if I places them upside down? It is a rougher surface would it still get slick? And what about out side the water dish in the substrate?

I have a hard time finding slate slabes that is why I'm looking into the alternitve idea's

 

[Blakem]

What wattage is your basking bulb? It should emit a good amount of heat. Are you measuring with a temp gun?

 

[Rover15]

What wattage is your basking bulb? It should emit a good amount of heat. Are you measuring with a temp gun?

160watt exo terra messuring with the repti temp gun and a prob thermometer. The enclosure is open top and in my bacement so it is battling an average room temp of 65 I have it about 4" off. The cold ground but I have been advised to toss blankets under to prevent the cold from coming up the walls are about 2 feet high and substrate is 3"- 4" tall I want to make it 6" minimum but I had under estimated the size of the enclosure(little over 3ft by a little more then 7ft) verus how much substrate I bought but next weekend I'll add more and sometime this week I'll add the blankets under to see if that helps. Last resort I take all the extra tile I have line the bottom of the enclosure then toss the substrate ontop of the tile.