If you are successfully keeping medium sized crocs, you will have no trouble with varanids.



A nile is about halfway to a croc.



The main difference is metabolism. Until monitors get old, their metabolism is about ten times that of a croc. Which means they require more heat and way more food.



Also if you want lots of trouble. then use a tank with a screen top.



Its not because its a tank, or because monitors are somehow different. The reason is, what I already mentioned. Varanids REQUIRE lots of heat, therefore it causes lots of dehydration. Heating a surface heats the air between the lite and the surface, causing it to raise and dehydrate whats below the lite. This is very true for water turtles as well.



The key is using a smaller bulb in the tank and much closer to the animal, therefore not needing to heat so much air.



oh and that paradon fella doesn't keep monitors and likes to pass on bad advice. Why he does, who knows, he cannot seem to stop himself.



The other two are giving you good advice.



I have a twenty by twenty foot cage, mines outdoors, having one indoors will cost wheelbarrows of money to keep in the right conditions, If you can do that, then the monitor/s you get will be one lucky monitor/s.

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