Hello,

After a few years of keeping reptiles and evaluating my current and future plans I decided to purchase a baby Nile monitor. Long story short (s)he is set up properly, settled it, and eating a pooping normally. The part that is confusing me is how calm and easy going he is. If I put my hand into his tank he will climb up my arm and let me handle him with no problems. I can pretty much do everything with him that I can my bearded dragon which is not what I was expecting at all. Two years later I still have a green ig that will have nothing to do with me so the last thing I was expecting was for the Nile to willingly be handled.



He's very small, a foot or less nose to tail. Are they normally this calm as babies? Should I expect him to become more aggressive as he gets older?



I was prepared for a skittish baby that wouldn't want to be messed with so this is rather unexpected. Is this normal?



Thanks
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