Its very possible with any varanid, you should already have a base of knowledge. Varanids as a group, do not appear to be for beginers.

When I first started, I had a base of knowledge and monitors fit easily within that. Then I started excessing lots of offspring. The individuals that had no problems were those with previous reptile breeding experience, particularly with breeding beardeds.

Those that come from the snake breeding areas, did and do very very poorly. As they do not seem to have the attention span for a reptile that requires near daily attention. They appear to favor reptiles that only need to be attended too every few days in their active season and off most of the winter. With colubrids, all you need to do is follow simple instructions and succeed to a mid level, and you will never need to understand that actual animal.

Of course there are exceptions, as with everything, but this seems to be the case.

So no, caresheets do not seem to be of value. And only seem to restrict the new keeper.

I hear this all the time, but the caresheet said this or that. My responce is, what are you keeping a caresheet or a monitor, throw the dang caresheet out.

A caresheet would be good if it included warnings, like, do not keep monitors because its a fad, do not keep monitors unless you want to work with them most everyday, do not keep monitors unless your willing to work hard and have lots of fun. Do not keep monitors if you have a fear of failure. Do not keep monitors if your trying to impress someone, because most likely its going to depress folks for a awhile. Do not keep monitors if you are set in your ways, Do not keep monitors unless your inventive and like to make hard decisions(ones that go against caresheets), Do not keep monitors, unless you cannot stand not to keep them. These types of things are far more important then whats being included in caresheets. Cheers

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• Ackie Care - ericR, Wed Apr 30 09:14:43 2008
• RE: Ackie Care - phantompoo, Wed Apr 30 11:45:53 2008
• RE: Care sheets suck, your very right - FR, Wed Apr 30 13:33:30 2008
• care sheets definitely have a use - robyn@ProExotics, Wed Apr 30 14:56:01 2008
• RE: Its nothing against you Robyn - FR, Wed Apr 30 15:29:16 2008
• now for my questions: - ericR, Wed Apr 30 23:42:52 2008
• RE: now for my questions: - robyn@ProExotics, Thu May 1 13:30:30 2008
• RE: now for my questions: - ericR, Thu May 1 22:18:35 2008
• RE: now for my questions: - robyn@ProExotics, Fri May 2 11:55:14 2008
• RE: now for my questions: - ericR, Fri May 2 18:51:50 2008
• RE: now for my questions: - robyn@ProExotics, Sat May 3 13:25:35 2008
• RE: Excuse me????? - kap10cavy, Sat May 3 17:29:29 2008
• RE: I guess its more like this. - FR, Thu May 1 09:53:58 2008
• RE: Care sheets suck, your very right - Anchor, Wed Apr 30 16:41:04 2008
• RE: Care sheets suck, your very right - FR, Wed Apr 30 22:55:01 2008