The behavior is rather typical and rather calm compared to some of my waters. Personally unless you have decided to remodel this room into a room sized monitor enclosure I would advise against letting it run loose in a room. Loose monitors can do a lot of damage to the room and to anything in it. I have learned this the hard way a couple of times ( do you want to hear about ripping out a wall to extract one or do you want to hear about when two of them flooded my upstairs when I decided to use a bathroom as a makeshift cage while I did cage repairs...few other times as well....never pretty).

The ambient temp in the room is a little low for long term keeping for my taste, it would be fine for one part of the room or for night time temps but I would want it warmer, and a window is an inadequate basking spot not only for the temps that cam vary widely, but because you don't really want a water monitor to figure out that window is a path to outdoors (and they can they are quite smart.) a full grown water can go through typical window glass quite easily. I actually had a large adult bust through 1/8 inch plexi glass before I upgraded to thicker plexi after that.

As far as tameness goes some are more people friendly than others, but I have found that dogs are very good if you want tame pets although they do tend to take up the bed more often than waters do.

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