Well nested eggs hatch better and it may be because of what you noted. Small monitors shell the eggs as they are laying them. Well nested eggs seem to recieve more water. You can tell how good the eggs are when the female emerges. If she has lost lots of water weight, the eggs are good, if she hasn't there is a higher chance they are not so good.



So how do you have them set up? I have not seen to many zoos that were good at hatching monitor eggs. Oh that no place for them is a stupid excuse. Theres millions of places for them.



Think of it like this, your wife tells you to take out the garbage, you do now want to do that, so you make a list of rules that do not allow you to take the garbage out. Mine you, its not illegal for you to take the garbage out. You just don't want to.



Thats how it is with zoos, they simply write up their own rules to suit themselves. They could actually do lots of things. Heck, they could sell them and donate the money to education. Surely they don't need the money for better cages or more food or better keepers. Yea, donate to charities. hahahahahahaha its those dang rules they make. They would sooner see the monitors die then do something realistic.(AZA zoos in general, not specifically your zoo) Cheers

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