Actually that is the wrong pic, I couldnt upload the one I wanted to show. That pic is a 1.1 V. Pilbarensis that is still alive and well, female we hatched in 2001 here at our facility. The pic I was trying to upload wont because I cannot resize it with the software I have now. My point is the 2 glauerti females are both 10 months old and never been with a male, the real point is one is dominating the other and the end result is one 50% larger then the other within 3 months. Now if I would have kept them seperate they would be more evenly grown to the same size. If you take some monitor hatchlings and house them together you will see what will happens regardless of species. I have seen this many times but sometimes in a pinch I house 2 girls together until I make other cages. They are all territorial and I beleive they probably really only come together for breeding season. If you keep monitors together for any length of time you will always have a larger one and it does not have anything to do with the sex ratio, Ive seen it with multiple girls and even worse with 2 males.

Good luck, Bob

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