i have a lot of tespect for what frank says. i have changed a lot of my practices based on what he has learned from keeping reptiles. i personally find that monitor lizards are not only a lot different from snakes, but are a lot different from each other as well. researchers first thought that monitors were sort of a link between snakes and lizards. the way i understand it; these assertions were proved for the most part to be false. monitors are way different from the rest of the lizards and snakes as well. i really think each of these 60 or so species are very different from each other as well. this is one of the reasons that keeping monitors is such a challenge. we try to generalize for all of them, and we can't. people are having a lot of success with green iguans, tegus, beardies. why? because keepers are learning just what these animals need to stay healthy and survive. i think torts are different from monitors because i think the needs of torts are more general, and there is more transferance of what has been learned from one tort to another tort. most success that has been had by keepers has been by those who have specialized in one monitor. if you are trying to keep a monitor, i would try to listen to those who have experience with that particular monitor rather than what someone has tried with his sav or ackie.

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