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Get your incubator ready!!

wow! 2 crocs....didnt think many people kept em. Nice!

oh wait! i spoke too soon. 3! didn't know they were communal.

It seems to me that you just gave the males a good reason to fight. If I were you I'd pull one of the males out.

Good Luck

I wanted to see what was going to happen. I think they would not fight. At least until she cycled. Dang, you are ruining it. hahahahahahahahahahaha Cheers

Didn't mean to spoil your fun, but you know the odds are one of those animals is going to get hurt. Maybe even the female....

This is an area I have been interested in, without much research. Long term bonded males(raised together).

I know what will happen with short term male groups. But long term is very interesting. In nature, its common to find groups of males.

By raising them together, it may effect their behavior, much as it does when raising pairs together. Cheers

They are just so well behaved. We'll see.

Hey Rich,
I was thinking the exact same thing. One of the males 'used' to be more dominant. Now, it almost seems as if they other has taken over. At any rate, they are about at equal footing. But get along fine so far. I'll be watching carefully.

And I don't want to speak too soon, but I swear the day I purchased that extra female, my original female looked to be swelling up a bit. A week and a half later now and she looks a bit plump. But she has fooled me before. But boy that would be ironic. I'll post some pics of her if I get really suspicious.

In my experience keeping groups of animals together is only good until two eventually pair up, when that happens the odd monitor out ends up being killed, mamed, or stressed to death. This is especially true for large wild caught monitors.

I have had exceptions to this, but I always play it very carefully.

Good Luck

A bonus is that the three original were captive bred from the same clutch and raised together. The additional female is wc. If the males do give her a bite they will take her head clean off. Not much room for error here.