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RE: Ornate or Water monitor? ID needed

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Posted by: Ckoutris at Fri Jan 3 21:39:51 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ckoutris ]  
   

It's definitely not a Water monitor as in Varanus salvator. From your photo I would say you have an Ornate monitor. An easy way for you to check on whether it's an Ornate monitor or a Nile monitor is it's tongue color. Ornate monitors have a pink tongue and Nile monitors have a blueish black tongue. Hope that helps! It's a gorgeous monitor by the way!

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Charles
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