First, your husbandry understanding will of course increase with time and success/failures.



As I said, yours look great. But not I going to have to put some doubt in your mind. All sexes will mount eachother at all ages. Even the day the hatch. That has not one thing to do with what sex they are. So that information is not a gauge as to what sex they are. You cannot confirm sex, until you hatch some eggs. Only a female lays eggs. A male can fertilize them. But in rare occasions, that is also not necessary. Eggs only mean you have a female. After that its dicey.



So until you have seen an individual lay eggs, its not a female. If you have a good hatch rate, you also have a male. But if you do not, it does not mean you do not have a male.(parthno reproduction raises its ugly head)



Not to scare you but to keep monitors alive, on a scale of 1 to 50 is a ONE. To raise them in some normal manner is a two. That leaves 48 more levels of all manner of odd things that may or may not pop up and effect your level of success.



One of those numbers is, DO NOT MESS WITH GROUPS UNLESS you have too. I would never place a young female with a "known" male if they were not raised together, and in particularly if one is kept solitarily. Of course, if you have to, you have to. But do not do so because you are not sure. MAKE SURE, you know what sexes they are. You see, doing that can cause all manner of problems you simply do not have to deal with(easy to avoid). Raise your group, be patient and wait until you know what sex they are.



You see, its impatience that causes most to fail, not because they do not understand some magic husbandry trick. Monitors are easy, unless you screw with them.(sadly most screw with them) Cheers.

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