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FR
at Mon Jul 17 16:49:14 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Your monitors look great and obviously healthy. So that looks to be in order.
The key to breeding monitors is have two sexes. I know that sounds funny but its very confusing with monitors.
In order to make heads or tails out of what they do, you must be positive about what sex they are, or you will forever become confused.
The next step is to have two functioning sexes. This is harder to tell. With this, you can tell when reproduction fails. As in infertile eggs or a non producing female. Remember you need to know its a female.
For me, some individual monitors produce in the winter, some in the summer, and some produce thru all the seasons, non-stop. Until you gone thru several seasons, you cannot tell what yours are going to do yet. So keep them in good health(as they appear to be) and keep going.
Even when they form a pattern, these patterns have always changed thru the years.
Also, you commented on having good soil. That is unknown to you as of yet. As monitors will burrow in any type of dirt, but they will not nest in any type of dirt or substrate.
The two main points are proper sexes and timing. That is closely followed by suitable substrate.
You can scroll down and read several current posts where the poster states, my male does this, and the female does that. Then its followed by, If its a male or If its a female. Make it clear, you sould not think of them as a certain sex, until you know they are that sex. There are many ways to know. And sometimes it takes all those ways to be sure.
The same for dirt, many people claim their dirt is good because it holds a burrow or the monitors dig in it. Neither of these have much to do with the substrate being a good nesting material. To think of it as good, is only when you have recieved many clutches and there is little impact of hard nesting on the female. Most female monitors will nest in really bad substrate. You will recieve a range of success from this. When they refuse to nest, its worse then really bad, it means its totally unsuitable. Cheers
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- Red Ackies, pics - roadspawn, Mon Jul 17 14:07:41 2006
- FR...question - roadspawn, Mon Jul 17 14:23:33 2006
 RE: Hi Roadspawn - FR, Mon Jul 17 16:49:14 2006
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