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Dear all,
this evening while in the loo doing a 'small business' - i saw a big 'cicak' - screamed my head off. too big for a house gecko!! my darling managed to capture it and we thought of keeping it BUT need to identify what species it is, just to make sure it is not poisonous!!!
please advise if it is safe to keep it and how to handle?
thats no house gecko!!!it looks like a nile monitor!!!where do you live?can you post another pic?its kind of blurry.
I dont think it looks like a nile monitor.. maybe a baby sumatran water monitor?
That's definately a monitor, NOT a gecko. Eep!! Where do you live?
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1.1 Ball Python
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0.0.1 Bearded Dragon
0.0.2 fish
1.2 cats
3.1 kids
1.0 husband
The specimen is a Water monitor (Varanus salvator)
ok - i live in Malaysia, in the city though. didn't really know where it came from. thought of keeping it but if it is a monitor, it will be too huge to handle. i think i will release it to the forest. what do you think?
np
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Devlin Gandy
I keep many rare and unusual lizards
Devlin,
How is it going with the dracos? The one you're holding in the pic looks fat and healthy. Good job. Haven't seen you on the mhd forum lately and it's good to know you are still going with these neat little guys.
Marcia
Occasionally i check out the MHD forum adn read posts but I havent seen anything recently to comment on. Dracos are all well.
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Devlin Gandy
I keep many rare and unusual lizards
Yes, its best to release the monitor.
-Mike
Thats a nile monitor. You one of the people that lives in florida? Wish i could catch stuff like that in texas.
Chris
yea all i can catch here is little 2 inch long salamanders! lol i live in central pennsylvania... nothin here.
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