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What are Blue monitors like? Are they able to be "tamed"? Are they very active?

hi

blue monitors?
are you talking about blue trees or blue phases?

your animal will never be "tamed". just tolerant.

have a nice day
__khai

Either species. How tolerant are they? Are they as tolerant as a Sav?

blue trees are pretty skittish animals.they recently came into the u.s several years ago,even these captive born babies were really shy .
blue tailed are workable.they arent as skittish though.

yes, check out www.treemonitors.com

Thank you very much

you need to check out www.treemonitors.com for advice on this matter.

I am assuming that you are talking about blue tree. As is with all the trees, they are a more secretive and skittish species. I have calmed wc adults down but it takes much work to get them to even eat in front of you let alone from your hand. They will often just hide until they do not sense any activity around them but will run right back into cover as soon as they see movement. Many wc do not adapt well and will never calm down. It is highly discouraged to go with a wc tree monitor unless you have some experience. Hence lies the problem. Just real difficult finding cb trees. The one i have now was cb and has been conditioned from the git go so he is not the typical tree. IF you decide to go with one I would take the time and pay the bucks for a cb. It will be both cheaper and more satisfying to you in the long run. At a very minimum if there are just no cb to be had out there then i would consider an imported farm raised baby. I won't go into a lot of detail but most of the farmed imports are actually wc or at the least, eggs hatched from a wc gravid female but that really is not the point. The point is that if you want a tree that can be "conditioned", then you really need to go with a very young one. Just my opinion.
I will post some pics of curly later today. I put some on a few days back of him when he was younger but got some pics of him today in all his blue glory.

Wc and cb?

WC = Wild Caught
CB = Captive Bred
Almost all blue tree monitors in captivity today are wild caught specimens. Other than Nydon, I'm not aware of anyone else having a captive bred varanus macraei. Wild caught specimens typically arrive very dehydrated, which seems to be the overall challenge of keeping the blue tree. You may want to join treemonitor.com and ask bob mendyk some question on this species. Definitely not for beginners. Best of luck ~ Joe

Thank you

Definatly NOT a good choice for begginers! I dont know if youre experienced or not with monitors or arboreal lizards, but theyre beauty can be deceiving. Good practice for one should include experience with other monitors, ackies or timors would be good, and experience with other large arboreals, such as prehensile-tailed skinks, knight anoles, or maybe even frillies. I dont mean "practice" in a sense that lizards are "things" to be "practiced". I mean experience as in you know what youre getting into. You dont wanna lose a $900 blue tree monitor, thats for sure! But for the experienced, they can be great. Treemonitors.com is an EXCELLENT site. The site manager guy also wrote on atricle on tree monitors for the August 2006 issue of REPTILES magazine. Sorry for the rant! Good luck if you get one!

Ryan

What makes them difficult? Thanks for the info

If you had done any research on them what-so-ever (on your own) in the last nine days, you would have found that out, easily, by now. Have a nice day. ~ Varanusjoe