"Also, in nature, monitors do not stay awake in the day and sleep at night. that is a human thing, not a monitor thing."
The first monitor I ever got was a nile many years ago. When I first got it I kept it in a tank (like most beginners who new little....less info back then.) I kept the tank semi aquatic. One day shortly after getting it I got this bright idea to get some fresh water mussels from the store to feed it. The lizard kept me up all night that night clanging mussel shells on the bottom of the tank trying to eat them. I never repeated that scenario ever.
The funny thing is I use that tank for day geckos now and it is somewhat small for them but I get good production out of pairs in that tank (29 long btw). To this day I cannot imagine ever having kept a monitor in that tank (although he wasn't in it long) much less that one he grew to 6 foot and lived for 16 years.

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