If money is your concern, then you would be better off with something besides a monitor lizard. They are not cheap animals.

With an ackie, you can easily justify the purchase cost by comparing the increased cost in housing and food that it takes to house a nile or sav.

Ackies are cheaper in the long run and will cause you less grief.

Sav, niles and other heavily imported African species will always have a cheaper initial cost. But that cheap cost causes them to be abused (ten of thousands imported, but few grow old) and causes legislation to be passed against them.....look at Florida and Nile monitors.
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-Daniel Hill
www.southernherper.com

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