Hi, I actually thought the first time I read your post it was a sick joke, how could anyone bath an animal in hot water??
You then state you think there should be a permit system to stop impulse buyers, but isn`t that what you are, clearly, you haven`t bothered to learn much in almost a year!?
Now for the advise; you need to put a few photos up so we can see just what the enclosure and monitor look like.
At over one year of age, the animal should be at least a metre (3 feet) total length, in which case the enclosure is far too small.
And at that size the monitor will probably be sexually mature, it has nothing to do with age in Varanids, it`s more to do with total length...
Tell me what you`ve been feeding, what type of heat/light bulbs you use, type of substrate etc... Please understand I AM trying to help, it just never ceases to amaze me what so many of these animals have to go through....

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