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Hey,
about 3 months ago I bought a little cb baby peach throat monitor and I had been keeping him in a 30 gallon tank when he was very young. He was doing great eating everythin in sight. But then I decided that since he was growing that he could use a larger tank, so I moved him into a 90 gallon aqarium with uv lighting and a large heat pad. Well he was eating for the first bit of time but then he just kinda hide in his cage and never ate or anything. So i thought he may be lost in a large tank. So then I moved him into a 30 again. But still nothin ive raised the humidity from about 40% to about 60% and the heat from 75-80 to 85-90......idunno if it'll help but do you now the prob??
Ps-i keep many other species of monitors (white throat,savannas, water, black tree) and i really never had probs.

Thanx
Justin

Hi Justin,
Everytime you move a monitor to new surroundings it takes them abit of time to acclimate - and "may" be your problem there re: no eating. Try offering him/her crustaceans (crayfish, prawns, shrimp), baby mice, and see if that will coaxe them out. Put newspaper/butcher-paper on all the glass except a small portion to look through and that will reduce its stress alot and help it adjust. Leave it alone for awhile, more humidity would be good for it...

Good Luck,
mbayless

I agree with what Mark said.

I won't go into the c.b. thing, but (imported) jobiensis will commonly have issues acclimating to new enclosures. The real trick is to not change things, you need to give them time to adjust. I have seen this most with w.c. juveniles, with the monitors I have peachies feeding response is somewhere in between argus and gouldii, very agressive.

I would highly suggest, dumping the UV light and heat pad, covering the screen, and using some sort of flood lamp to provide a hot spot in the 130F range.

Good Luck,

--Robert