my buddy came to me and said he wanted a savvy and i said i would help him seeing as i have a buch of snakes turtles and leos, i told him i did not have much experience with monitors but i would help.
so we get him everything he needs and get it all set up and then call a very reputable breeder who also sells here on ks. i asked if the babies were captive bred or wild caught and he said that all babies in the us are wild caught and that they are not bred in captivity. i find this hard to believe seeing as that many sites say captive bred and he said that they are caught very young and that is why many people say that they are cb. please shed some light on this
adam
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question on captive bred savvies
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There is a large misconception in the world of reptiles and in monitors in particular that a baby born in captivity from a wild caught parent is a captive born. This however is the misconception they are still "wild caught". This is where the line gets fuzzy and it always sounds better to say captive born over farm raised.
Not to say that a wild caught specimen raised and breed in captivity can only produced "wild caught" babies, they would be Captive born. What I am talking about is the fertile parent caught in the wild and lays eggs in captivity or at the farm. I believe that is were a large portion of young monitors come from, along with a bunch of wild caught hatchlings.
My 2 cents, take it as such.
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Jeremy
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There is no farms. A least in a keeping sense. A farm would be pens with monitors that stay there for breeding or egg laying purposes. At these compounds, they stay until sold. But mostly they are digging up wild nests. Monitors are not good at laying eggs in bags, like ball pythons.
There are a few babies hatched in the states. A person will run out a female for a few clutches, but no consistant breedings. In may opinion, its too much work to breed monitors, you simply cannot compete with wild OBTAINED. hahahahahaha Cheers
