If we keep talking, just maybe some great ideas will pop up.



Tom hit the nail on the head. Complex social structure. That is what monitors practice(even if science cannot tell one end from the other with monitors and says they are solitary)



This IS the problem with monitors. You cannot keep a female in a shoe box most of the year, feed it, clean the cage and change the water. Then place a male in and collect eggs later. Simply put, monitors have defied that with a passion and across the board. Oh it can be done, but its more like spinning a roulette wheel. Most of the time it will not work AT ALL. But if kept in a social setting, they produce like pez despencers. Hmmmmmmm proof is in the Putting(doing).



So, this means, large cages, setup to promote and allow a social structure. Which is not sold at your local Pet and corpse shop.(for monitors). So As in the old days, monitor keepers have to be cage builders as well. A lost art. I am sure Tom will argee, those who did well in the old days, were ones not afraid to get their hands dirty.(hmmmmmm lots of meaning here)(also means, not waiting until something becomes available)



One more thing, about only selling neutered animals. The failure with monitors is very much the opposite. LACK OF SUCCESS with anything but the smaller monitors has without question limited the market. Humans are funny beasts, for every explorer, theres many thousand homesteaders. Most simply want to follow and not blaze their own trail. Or so it seems.



With the reptiles you mentions that have created a large market, a common trait is, they are simple ABC types, no challange. Do what your told and all will be well. OK, got to go, more later, cheers

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