you got my attention Ive been looking into breeding both blue tree monitors and quincies you are a fountain of knowledge my friend and know i have not bought anything yet. Ive been looking at everything husbandry of them first so here is what my lil nosey mind is wanting of you if you dont mind sir (please forgive the list its to idiot proof my thoughts because the stupid questions will fallow lol)
1) caging for breeding pairs what do you recommend and could you show pics of the set up or at lease a diagram
2) We all know monitors will eat almost everything but diet is the key to health please note I kept salvators so not to much known on the lil guys and most info out there is bs from what Ive seen so ideal diet due to the high metabolism i was looking at ground turkey scrambled eggs and the normal regiment of live but I have a strong feeling this diet would be incorrect for these little guys and was thinking small lizards and maybe a snake or two
3) the nest chamber from everything ive read from you and others i had an idea 2 inch round pvc for a down tube the nest box i was thinking small like 15 gallon tall tote with a heat pad on the rear panel so she could find the heat she likes monitors and snakes are very good at temps and maybe pics of a breeding nest box and a substrate mix i was thinking of the clay peat moss and cocobark and maybe a nice covering of some broad leafs like off of a non toxic house plant or maybe even some plastic leaves if big enough just mist the top daily
4)cage design is probably the best to maintenance i was thinking of building a arboreal 5ft tall by 4 ft wide by 2 ft deep with a drain able water tube at the bottom or do you think a water feature would not be necessary i have read that gtms do like to swim
5) the emortal hurtle of all reptile nerds incubation substrate temps an duration

now with all this I thank you and everyone else who may have advise to add for my idiots guide post gtms have been something ive always wanted to do but my friends are oh its too hard or they die really easy well all reptiles are hard to take care of if you dont have a clue of what your doing lmao

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• ok fr help me with my idots guid to gtm' - raybrooks1, Sun Aug 28 18:28:49 2011
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