All monitors are easy to breed, but all monitors are a whole lot of work, and unless you live in a place like S.Fla. where you can keep them from using electicity, the cost is far to high. For all monitors



Savs are a normal monitor, but they are imported for under $5 each as captive hatched/farm raised. Which they are not. But still thats what they are called.



The cost of producing a single baby, is well, NOT EVEN CLOSE. By a long shot. Insect feeders such as ackies cost over $50 each when producing numbers. When only a clutch here and there are produced, each baby actually costs several hundred to produce.



So every once in a while someone will give it a go and because a few people would say, I will pay more for a real captive hatched, but after going through all the work, they sell a couple for more more and cannot sell the others.



That really takes away from the FUN of keeping and breeding. As each mouth has to be fed and no one will take them.



Consider, if you want a Sav, you can easily get them for FREE.



Back to the work, the hard part is responsibility, you have to be there at the right time, or all the work is for nothing.



Consider, we have hobbies because they are REWARDING. When it becomes lots of responsibility and little in the way of rewards, why do it.



For instance, you can take the same work and breed ackies, and gain some reward, at least help pay the high cost of keeping. Or even Blackthroats, or any species thats not imported like Savs. I hope this helps

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