If there is anything that needs to be understood its this.



You fixed the problem(lets say you did) Do not ever take any solution as permanent. As they are not. As your monitor grows, its changes, it outgrows what was once suitable. Its behavior changes(matures) and it will indeed require different things. Both physically and mentally.



This lesson is very hard to understand and apply. Even these giant brained academics cannot seem to figure this out. All animals change. They change from very short periods, to very long periods.



As keepers, we control everything. We must understand and adapt to these changes. Remember, you control everything in your monitors life.



For instance, they out grow the cage, we all understand that, but they also outgrow their hiding areas, dirt depth, water bowls, food schedules, etc.



In biology(ethology=behavior) its understood that all animals grow and change. Yet the academics forget(do not apply this) As just a local lizard breeder, I understand, you must grow with your charges(pets) They change, so you must change.



The problem with keepers is, they seem to want to be right. Unfortunately, keeping animals is always a momentary right. And unfortunately, a permanent wrong(if it dies). You can be right today and wrong tomorrow. That is exactly what happens on a day to day basis. You are never right for long.



Again, Academics like to make rules, they like their rules to be right. The reason they shy away from living animals is, their rules fail. The rules may work today(happy academics) but fail tomorrow(bad bad animals do not go by their rules). They then tend to blame the animals, or make more rules. Its not really the academics fault, they are taught to do that.



But your young and can still learn. Keeping animals is always making decisions every stinking day, day after day. If the animals outgrow or change their mind(they do that) You must change too, if you have rules, then your done. FORGET ABOUT IT. hahahahahahahahaha.



I know patterns, I try to follow a pattern that has worked. But very very often I must change that pattern. If I get bullheaded, I will fail. Which means, the monitors failed, if they fail, its ALWAYS my fault.



I am wrong a lot. I could never be an academic, I am wrong to much. But then, as am also a million times more successful then academics at keeping monitors. Hmmmmmmmmmm that is until they learn its not about right or wrong. Its about adapting to the subject. THE MONITORS.



Sorry for going on a mini rant. But its an important lesson to learn. In a month or two, you may have to re-arrange the cage again, if you are successful and your monitor grows like the wind(they do that). I am only using academics as an example, as they are keen on making and following rules. I guess I was always a rebel at heart, I read the rules, but I always keep an eye on things outside the rules. They may actually be the real right. Cheers

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