I am trying to be nice, please consider, a newbie is not capable of the best care. Not because they are not smart or motivated, they simply lack experience to understand how to get to the best.

They must start with little successes, win little battles(keeping monitors is war, hahahahahahahahahaha)

Beginers or midlevel keepers need to take one step at a time. In reality, barely sufficent is pretty darn good, considering the normal is massive failure.

For instance, on all other major catagories of reptiles, turtles, torts, snakes, beardeds, geckos, etc. The average beginer, will be breeding them successfully in a short time. They expect to breed them. Yet, here on our fine forum, the average post is, Help my monitor is dying. Why is that. In my opinion, monitors are about has hard to keep and breed as mice. They take work, but there surely is no magic to them. You do not have to hibernate or photoperiod or anything. Like mice all you have to do is have a suitable temp regime and feed and water on a regular basis.

Of course the hard part with monitors is nesting, its more like parakeets or love birds, you must provide the proper type of nesting.

Yet, the average keeper here fails within months. I have to wonder.

Its why I fight those academics tooth and claw, they keep trying to send keeping monitors back into the dark ages. I guess its bad enough that I have lots of continued success, muchless having newbies doing the same, so they keep passing out cropola information.

So, no offense, its my opinion you will learn faster by taking a step at a time, then think about the best.

ITs so very common here for excited monitor owners to want the best food, the best lites, the best, the best, the best. When none of that equals the best. What is best is the combined results from barely good enough of many things.

For instance, once a female monitor cycles and has eggs, you pretty much have to stomp her to death to stop here from having another clutch, then another clutch. It does not hurt them to have many clutches, it hurts them to not have many clutches. You literally have to starve them to death to stop them.

I have lots of success, many here do not, I do not try to provide the best of anything, I hope to have good results, and as far as I can tell, my results are amoung the best. But what I actually do is not the best. Does that make any sense? Cheers

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