I don't see any benefit to any monitor by multi housing, people do it out of laziness from what I have seen. Keep in mind all monitors are predators,cannibals and opportunists. There are many accounts of cannibalism from specimens close to the same size, its rare but happens. There will always be a dominant one and a submissive one when housed together regardless of sexes, I have seen it many times in the earlier years of keeping. In fact I have 2 female Kimberly rocks that are clutch mates and were both the same size 3 months ago at 6 months of age, now they are together in a very spacious enclosure, 6 ft by 4 ft and the one is 50% larger then the other [submissive one]. In the wild they don't have to tolerate each other and can roam into an area far enough away from one another to create there own territory and thrive which is hard to do in captivity and leads to stress. Bottom line is it works for some people but I think it puts restrictions on the submissive one. Pairs that are sexed even stress eachother at times when housed together, a keen eye helps. Good luck, Bob

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