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I was wondering if any of you keep/breed varanus caudolineatus. I have been looking high and low, but have not had any luck in finding someone with any available. If you have some, let me know how many you have and how much you want for them. If you don't have any, I would really appreciate it if you could point me in the direction of someone that may have them. Thanks for the time.

Have a good one,
Daniel Hill
daniel1983@danielhillreptiles.com
985-707-5667

I have two adult female caudos. I am not aware of any others in the U.S. and mine are not for sale.

Cheers,
Neal

I have an adult pair, I'd like to know who else is working with these guys?
Robin

I have heard of a few different people keeping them; however, I can find someone that is selling any or even breeding the ones that are owned.

LOL...let me know if you decide to breed yours.

After I posted, I just remembered someone mentioning a Robin that has a pair of caudos in my area. Are you from the Pearl River/Slidell, LA area?

Daniel

Thats me, where are you located?

Cool deal. I live in Pearl River on Spruce Drive off Military Rd.

Shoot me an email at daniel1983@danielhillreptiles.com if you get a chance.

Hi Robin,

Have you gotten any eggs from yours? Where are you located?

Cheers,
Neal

No eggs yet, with school and work I haven't been monitoring them very close. I have more time now to watch them and try and figure out what I'm doing wrong. hopefully I'll get it figured out soon.

Robin

Sorry forgot the rest, I'm in southern Lousianna, I can't figure out how to type with a drawl.
Robin

"type with a drawl." hahaha

Please share some pics of your caudos if you can. I hope you don't mind, I have sent you a message.

Thanks,
Neal

Hi Robin, I have kept and bred caudos for many many years, so please try to take this well. If you have an adult female, it will lay eggs from about 6 months of age on.

The problem is, you may not know it. They often do not appear gravid and if they have any depth in their substrate, they lay so quickly that you may not notice.

Ours would lay clutches two weeks apart, over and over and over. Much like geckos.

Also like geckos, you can see the eggs form inside them. Then when they lay, they are gone, then a few days later, they form more eggs.

It seems with these smaller monitors, enough food to keep them alive also is enough food to trigger reproduction.

I mentioned this to Neal a few months ago. As he thought his were males. Then he dug up the cage to find many clutches of eggs.

If you post pics of yours, we may have a slight change to see is you have both sexes. If you have two males, you and Neal may work out a deal.

I no longer have pure caudos. After I lost my last male(they seem to die first, not females) I bred my last female to a male gilleni. She produced eight clutches in one year from that pairing. Most of the eggs hatched and some are almost adult now. I still have three clutches in the incubator.

In this case, the cross babies are very very nice, not all crosses are like that, I think most make offspring that are not as nice as either parent. But no in this case.

It would be great if you guys can keep the caudos pure and breeding in captivity, as there are very very few left in the States. Cheers

P.S. the pic is three of the cross(gilleni/caudolineatus) offspring.

I have been trying to get in touch with you about some monitors for a while now without any luck. All the contact info I have doesn't seem to be right. If you can, could you please contact me at daniel1983@danielhillreptiles.com or 985-707-5667 so that I can find out what monitors you have available.

Thanks,
Daniel Hill

Hi Frank

they have never looked gravid so I never dug up their cage to see if there are any eggs, I'll do that tonight.
One should be male (he pops, not by me but by a friend with lots of poping experience) the other didn't. I'll try and get picks up tonight, or ratherI'll get my son to do it, I don't know how.
I was going to change out the dirt to try and find somthing they like better, they are almost always in the stacks.
According to what I was told when I got them, they originated with you and came through eric crider.
Thanks for the help, hopfully I can give them what they want.
Robin