There is good reason, snakes are SIMPLE, as in, A,B,C and your done. As in, caresheets work. The problem is, monitors are not SNAKES and appear to not be so simple. If they were, everyone would have been breeding them for a very long time, And commonly.

Which does not appear to be the case. Monitors appear to be more attuned to behavior then conditions. That is, once normal decent conditions are met, that is the begining of the problems, not the end. For snakes, that is the end.

Of course there is much more, as an old guy, I understand the first snakes were not very easy either, they had some behavioral problems and of course we did not have caresheets. So the first snakes were difficult. I remember having a talk with some other old folks, the Barkers. We were discussing when Blood pythons and Ball pythons were hard to breed.

Now, 99% of snakes are long term captive lines. Which means that most of their genetic behavioral memory is GONE. They have become domestic. Hey go try to breed wild mice. Like catch some from one place and breed them to some from another place. That would give you an idea of what I am talking about. Mice are easy to breed, but will wild mice be easy to breed?

Back to monitors. There are very very few longterm captive lines. And yes, those that exsist are far easier to breed then wild caught individuals. But, as you can see, monitor breeding is rare, no matter what is being attempted.

For instance how many different folks actually hatched a monitor on this forum in the last year?????? Then compare that to how many different folks hatched a snake on all the snake forums. Hmmmmmmmmm my bet is, more different will people hatch a snake in the next month, then all the people in the history of breeding monitors. In fact, more snake breeders will hatch a snake on a givin day, then monitor breeders in the history of breeding monitors, IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

Which means this, monitors are not snakes and monitor breeders are a million miles behind snake breeders in that area of keeping. With that in mind, of friggin course explaining the hows and whys is DIFFERENT.

If you were to ask my how to breed a snake, I would say, go read a caresheet. The reason is, that would work. Obviously caresheets do not work for monitors, as there are lots of caresheets and very little breeding. Cheers and I hope you find a brain or use the one you got.

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