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Im expecting alot of ackies and sav's.Also why did you get that species?

Nile.
Because I didn't know any better, and I felt sorry for it. It is dead now, my fault.
D.

after starting out with uros, my first monitor was a baby timor (regular, not blue spot). the reason i got him was that, living in an apartment, i wanted something small. he was captive bred at a local pet store by people who i know, his dad was on the premises. i held him a few times and just fell in love, he was such the little charmer and ate like a pig. when my stepfather offered to get him for me as a belated birthday present, i was sold!!
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3 Mali Uromastyx (Ricky, Quinn, Anna)
1 Yellow Ackies (Roxie)
1 Timor (Zealot)
2 Hairless Rats (Amy, Miss Rattie Fantastico)

Emily
www.egomantra.com/npoh

My very first monitor was a Nile I purchased was 11 years ago when I was 15. I only had it for few days before my aunt took it back to the store. She didnt want anything in the house that could get large enought to eat a cat! I had to settle for a couple desert leopard lizards.

Since then, my first long term monitor was another Nile that I acquired about 6 years ago. I had him for three years, and one winter, my father insisted that I put him in the garage. I was afraid of him getting too cold, so I covered his enclosure with a blanket. He actually ended up overheating, and died.

A year passes before I got anything again. When I finally did, I got my Timors, which I have now. I wanted something completely different than a Nile, simply because I couldnt bare to be reminded of what I did to Osiris. Since getting my wonderfule timors, Ive also acquired 2 mangroves, two BTs, a water, another nile...this one with severe MBD(hes a year old and only about foot long), and 7 Boscs(2 of which ive adopted out). I also have two beadies, a Nigerian uromastyx, a burmese python and two ball pythons.

I go through like 80 mice a week, a couple rats, a couple bushels of greens, and a few pieces of fruit...not to mention a few beef hearts, and treats like crawfish and snails. I would consider cheeps, but the cheapest ive found around here is like 2.50/ each! Compare that to mice at .50/ ea!

Itll be a very long time before I get anything else for my personal collection. Then I would only consider agtting a more attractive male mangrove, a female uro, or a third timor...like a prettier female.

Later,
Michelle

Hey you were not kidding you do post a lot. Go to the outlet, they have a Crock Monitor, and a big Argus. I am trying to talk Bruce into taking a peach throat I have.

You can get day old chickens for about .27 cents each delivered!I have a hundred frozen chicks that you can have(my Blackthroat hates them).If you want them (or the address of the place I get them),let me know.Christian on WWE loves his PEEPS!lol

Loved the pattern, color & of course the Tri-poding, My original male & female are now 5yrs old and producing and doing great, I have since owned 14 species and currently work with 6 species(28 monitors total)
Bawaa Herps

np

Ackie. I got him on Halloween day in 1999 when he was eight weeks old. A few months later I got a Sav. My Sav passed away in March, but Aurek the Ackie is going strong.

My first and only, got it a year ago.

I had a sav & a nile before I was old enough or smart enough to care for either. I should be beaten because they both died in a very short time. In hindsight they were both in poor health before I got them. Then I made it worse

Since I got semi-educated the first I could actually care for is a Salvator by the name of Yoshi. I have a few other species but the Salvators remain one of my all time favorites.

Later, Gene

n/p

I trust that animal probably more than I should. He is very docile and easy to work with. I'm just tired of being his pin cushion.

I have flavi-argus crosses with bigger nails than him and they don't dig in like he does when he walks.

Later dude.

Show us more pics of that nice b/t you got.
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Gene

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I was talking to a friend of a friend at a party and he mentioned that his female lace monitor had just laid eggs, so I said I'd be interested in buying one of the babies. Eight months later, he gave me this little tyke.

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A CB lacie was your FIRST monitor??
Damn...

Best of luck with them! Good to hear the cast is off, I hope you regain sensation in your thumb. Bodies are pretty tough, it should work out OK. Take care.
D.

I was talking to the friend of a friend at a party and he mentioned that one of his female lace monitors had laid eggs that morning, so I said I'd be interested in buying one of the babies. He said he'd give a hatchling to me and, eight months later, gave me this little tyke (the photo was taken a few weeks later).

this photo was taken last October. He's about as 'tame' as monitors get, yet he almost removed my left thumb three months ago.