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dekaybrown
at Wed May 7 11:16:31 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dekaybrown ]
We have a Savannah monitor "Chomper" and I have read a lot from many of you who raise and breed monitors. (good info folks!)
Thanks in advance to all who read this and any who have creative insight to offer.
Currently Chomper is housed in a home made enclosure. ( I love building these things, woodworking is fun.) for his first few months his enclosure is 3 feet wide, 2 feet deep and 2 feet tall.
For substrate I harvested a bunch of river clay from out back, then baked it in the oven at 500 degrees for half an hour. (to kill all parasites and eggs) then re-hydrated it to where I could make a big ball and it would hold its form.
He has 2 burrows, a warm burrow 90 degrees inside, and a cool burrow 70 degrees. a repti-log and some creek stones. The burrows are lined with moss to hold the humidity in, and I mist his cage once a day to keep his dirt from drying out.
On the end where there is not dirt, I use Eco-earth coconut hair for it's ability to wick up moisture and release it slowly.
A halogen basking lamp heats the rocks to 130 degrees, and chomper sometimes sits on top of the rocks, sometimes he lies under them.
He eats "gut loaded" and calci dusted crickets, a couple pinks a week and an occasional earthworm. His water bowl gets changed and washed daily. (he poops in there all the time)
Today he "Chomped" his first fuzzy! I used to think the snakes were barbaric, till I watched this monitor slam living creatures into his rock pile, again and again till they quit "screaming".
Is there anything I am missing, or any suggestions I could use?
Failure is not an option, We want nothing more than for chomper to grow old and have a good life.
Any CREATIVE input will be so appreciated. We have 3000 sq. feet of home, and a 40 acre yard, room and expense mean nothing to me. I am hoping to have an outdoor paddock that would make Steve Irwin (you are missed) proud by the end of summer.
Anyone else ever receive paperwork from your local town government requesting you to list your animals?? I did, Code enforcement tells me that I am required to list my animals in case 911 ever has to respond to my home.
I thought that living out in the country would be ideal for these critters, yet whenever I take one of them out to play in the yard, every motorist that passes by has to do a double take.
I guess a privacy fence should be added to my shopping list.
Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
our critters
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1.0.0 Ball Python - Python regius "Cane" Rescue
1.2.9 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, & Kids
0.0.2 Thamnophis marcianus - Checkered Garters "spot" & "Zig"
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garter - Princess
1.0.0 Thamnophis pickeringi - Puget Sound Garter "Sky" (adult, Sky blue)
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua"
0.1.10 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly snakes
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Juvinile CB
0.1.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER"
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal" WC
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
0.2.0. Feline"Felix"(R.I.P. 4/27/08) "Kaja" & "Silver"
0.1.0. calico RAT
2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land. 
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