a word of warning about the Black and golds . They are really cheap and really nasty. I have kept many monitors over the years,mostly waters a lot of whom were nasty compared to the popular belief (that's okay...I prefer them that way.) I also had a nile which was my first monitor and recently passed away after almost 15yrs. I also work with rudicolis which I affectionately refer to as velociraptors. I have had ONE black and gold tegu and it was the nastiest creature I ever owned (have I mentioned yet that I also work with green anacondas???) I swear if these creatures got to komodo size South America would be uninhabited. This tegu had a remarkable ability of being able to jump up and catch my fingers in mid air at feeding time and it always seemed to take aim for my hand over prey items. as others said they aren't that bright so it took it a minute to figure out I had put food in it's cage. It used to stand bipedally quite a bit which was cool although it kind of only strenghtened the thought that it might be a shrunken t-rex. The b&g's do not hibernate as do the reds and b&w's. As I said really nasty for their rather small size (compared to the biggers waters and niles.)

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