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FR
at Wed Feb 16 09:48:07 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
I agree with most of your post, but, I have done the same thing with snakes and they are mostly the same, sans legs. Turtles and torts and of course Crocs and gators are very interactive as well, I would say, reptiles can do many things that are unexpected.
Of course, you are still playing catch up on this forum. As what your trying to say, has been said ten thousand times before. But its all good, as newbies appear everyday with the same old paradigms.
I do have some questions with your pics. It seems you have no consistancy with your caging. Some look like petshop cages(wall display units, some with wire, some are crates modifyied to hold animals, like they do in indo. But none appear current. Could you show your current cages please? Also some life events, monitors doing things, like breeding hatching, and hatchlings, that would be wonderful.
Back to being current. One of the thoughts I/several here, are trying to promote is, keeping monitors is more then putting a monitor in a cage and having it stay alive for a period of time. We are promoting allowing the caged animals to at least achieve basic life events. You know, hatching, growing up, becoming reproductive for a period of years or seasons, then growin old. Of course lastly dying.
Please understand, this is not about being commerial, or money or any of that old tired out crap, its only about letting monitors do what they do, naturally. They naturally achieve life events. Consider, all the other stuff, like diet, UV or whatever, are only to allow them to achieve something. They are to help support life events. Not to support a static individual.
There are so many of these useless arguments about UV and diet, because most people judge these tools(diet and lites, etc) on static animals(non progressing). Its very hard to measure something on an individual thats not doing anything. But if you test and judge these things on a progressing individual/s its easy to judge and measure if progress was helped or hindered. The problem you must understand husbandry first.(without these tools)
I hope you understand what I am trying to get across. You do not need UV bulbs or a great diet to keep or raise or breed monitors. They will do all that on all but the worse diet. Its a matter of potential. Great tools, will help achieve great potential. All animals have a range of potential. If your only concerned about keeping a monitor alive, then these are not the subjects you should be concerned with.
Sorry, I am having my mourning coffee and I get this way, soon I will be fully awake and would never say this stuff, hahahahahahaha FR
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RE: hand feeding monitors - FR, Wed Feb 16 09:48:07 2005