I'll never forget that story I heard it, years ago at the first Herp society meeting I ever went to. It was Upstate herp society in N.Y. (many yrs ago I've been in Fla for 12yrs now)The guy was doing a talk on monitors so of course I went. Iremember he brought this 5-6ft water with him in a wooden box that he used a makita cordless drill (choice drill of bonehead herp keepers everywhere) to open and close the box. Any way during his talk he told us about how he was babysitting his friends gila monster and his Dumerils(I think) monitor escapes it's enclosure and got into the gila's enclosure and ate it,and he mentioned they were still friends afterward.He was a nice guy but over the years I have found that people who design cages that require drills to open/close them(and they almost ALWAYS prefer Makita cordless drills) are usually boneheads so the gila thing doesn't surprise me.

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• can water and niles be housed together - madmike76, Mon Oct 15 00:29:23 2007
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