Theres a bit of a dilmema, There are very very few actually breeding varanids and not in a number that they must go to shows to sell them.

What I think is odd is, folks say they want CBH but do not want to pay what it costs to produce them.

Which means, there are some who continue to produce monitors for fun, but to produce them in number like other reptiles is very very expensive. Food costs alone, muchless energy costs which are sky high.

An example is, Ball pythons, you can feed them a mouse or two a week, a similar sized varanid would consume three or four a day.

Many snakes can be shut down for a big part of the year, monitors not so much, so their costs continue for all the year or most of the year.

Then in most cases you have to really heat the cage and if you have a number of monitors, you then have to really cool the room. Cheers

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