I find myself with 100,000 square feet of empty cages. A falcon breeding project that has been shipped overseas has left me with 50 empty cages every one of them the size of a large room in a house with a 12 foot ceiling in most.

My reason for not getting involved in monitor lizards has been their cage requirements. I am currently working with the large tropical racers from the Americas such as Cribos, Pseustes, Spilotes and Coachwhip snakes and have had good success with breeding and raising offspring. I have always felt that snakes are less demanding than monitor lizards but I am wanting to take the plunge.

My goal is to start with something that will give me a feel for breeding and raising monitor lizards, I like a challenge but realize that success will come from hands and open dialog “success and failure” My passion is large monitor species and arboreal species. I am thinking a good starter species would be either Nile or Water Monitor and a pair of tree monitors. I do not know the success people in the states have had with these species and would appreciate input as I go along.

My ultimate goal is not to provide a market with oversized lizards that will end up in sub standard homes but to progress to species that are not represented well in the states and make them available to others sharing similar interests.

My question is a simple one that has been asked 100 times before but never did anyone ask it with 100,000 square feet of empty cages. Oh by the way I also have a 200 foot circular covered round cage with 12 foot walls! What would be good for me to start with given the above scenario? I am wide open to comments.








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