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RE: New Savannah monitor owner

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Posted by: FR at Sat Dec 29 17:42:48 2012  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

The problem with varanids is work. They take work, so there are very few who have actually produced them REPEATEDLY.

Monitors are very general reptiles, That is, they have very little in adaptions, and conquer their habitat with behavior.

They climb, dig, swim, and do whatever to obtain prey. All have tails, legs, teeth etc. all species are fairly similar. The big difference in species is size. From tiny little monitors, to Komodos. Yet, similar in all other ways.

If you read Auffenburgs Komodo Monitor book, it shows burrows very well. That would directly apply to Savs.

I have produced many many species to many generations and if there were three things that are very important, it would be,

Hydration, temp range and WHOLE PREY ITEMS. Make sandwiches with that turkey meat, if you want to feed turkey, feed them turkeys.

WHat is funny is, when that turkey diet first came out, it was an attempt by the folks at CRES to duplicate a rodent. The funny part is, we have rodents and lots of them, and the monitors love to eat them.

Good husbandry is husbandry you can DEPEND on. Whole prey items are dependable. No worries, you do not have to add suppliments or anything. Use meats like turkey and now its up to you to add and subtract and balance, etc. Why would you want to make something easy, HARD? This question is beyond me. I want easy.

The reason I want easy with diet is, I still have plenty of other areas to take up my time.

Back to breeding monitors, its so easy its rediculus, except for BEHAVIOR. This is where we run into problems. Some get along, some kill eachother. And others do neither.

If you raise them together, they generally work well together, and you have to put them together to breed them.

Other then that, you do not hibernate them, or cycle them in anyway, good pairs, feed them well, nest them well and you get babies coming out like pez despensers.



   

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