the thing is, he's stating the facts about what works. although some people may find FR a little brash, what he says and the advice his gives is rock solid. i have yet to achieve life events with my monitors like others have on this forum, but i've noticed a major difference in my monitors since i've been taking people like FR's, robyn's, and mikesmonitor's advice.



i recently had a black throat. it was a cool monitor, but eventually decided it wasn't for me. so i decided to reliquish him into capable hands and go with a species more familiar to me. jobiensis. my dad kept one for about 12 years and it died while i was a teenager and it was a great monitor. although, back then, we seemingly hardly knew what we were doing, but it still lived longer than the average lizard. so i picked up a little peach throat.



this is a picture of it the day i brought it home. clearly a bit underfed and considerably dehydrated, it still had a thick tail and legs so it wasn't impossible to turn around.







now these are some pictures of the same animal about 2 months later. i keep a big fresh bowl of water available for it (often having to clean it out multiple times a day), it's on a soil mixture of approximately 50% topsoil, 25% playsand, and 25% mulch. mid to high humidity, multiple hide spots including one that stays in the mid 90's to one that's in the mid to high 70's. and, in my opinion, is doing much better than it would've if it continued on it's path. which is some degree of success in my opinion. i'm currently in the process of hunting down another one or two (optimally to come up with a pair or trio) so it can continue on to it's life events such as reproduction, pairing, bonding, etc. these pictures were taken yesterday.









as you can see, almost everything about it looks better. the eyes, the tail, the sides, hell even the color. my point being, i wouldn't take what some of these guys have to say lightly, or "weak as sh**"

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