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Does anybody know how much the pricing is on one of these and how is there temperment

What is the specific name for the monitor you are inquiring about, as there are several species often referred to as the "yellow-spotted monitor".

Varanus Panoptes

They are more commonly referred to as Argus monitors. They are a great species. They are very active, inquisitive, bold and intelligent monitor lizard. They are very hardy and take to captivity well. I have kept and bred them since 2003 and they are still my favorite species today. Downsides to them include: fairly large size (males can push 5' easily, females 3.5'), massive appetites, strong feeding response (your hand moving means food even when there's no food in it), needing to keep them on several feet of earth as they prefer to dig and tunnel, and they will not allow you to subdue them (which you shouldn't anyhow). If you have the money,room and ability to appreciate them for what they are, they are a great captive.

if I'm not mistaken Argus monitor is commonly used for PNG species, and Yellow spot monitor is used for Australian species.

If you're in America, or somewhere outside of Australia, it will be tough to find a Yellow spot panoptes, and the price would be huge if you did.
good luck
cheers

There was a fella in England, I believe, breeding them.

He would post pics here from time to time. The problem is, his were very much like argus in looks, the liter colored argus. Only bigger.

There are panoptes in australia that are really different colored and of different size then argus. For instance outside of Katherine, there are giant beautiful bright orange types. Verses, In Kakadu the panoptes are very very similar to argus. In color, the greenish types and the bent head look.

Of course in Oz. They are coast to coast across the top, so there are lots of types.

So saying Ozzie panoptes vs. indo panoptes, is not a good comparison. Cheers

That fella in England FR is refering to is me. Unfortunately I do not work with this species anymore, simply because there is a limited market for largish monitors in the UK and before you know it your hatchlings end up to be 6ft in no time. This can become a problem if you carry on breeding where do they all go?
Also people did not want to pay the price when they could get a cheaper alternative in panoptes horni.

So I limited my breeding and eventually phased them out of my projects.

Next year I hope to be producing spenceri from the Afors line.

I would love some of your flavi's.

Kind regards

Sean

yet, it was you that was in my mind. I do not like to mention names unless granted permission.

I fully understand your problem, its very much the same here.

I would love to have some spencers too. hahahahahaha I actually handled some. hahahahahaha if you know what I mean.

I know I have mentioned this before, the largest monitors I actually saw in australia were panoptes. I saw two over two meters. I never saw a lacie that large or a perentie. I did see many of both those, five 1/2 feet for lacies and close to six for perenties. Good luck with your future projects. Cheers

Cheers Frank and good luck to you as well.

One day hopefully I will get out there to see you, can't remember the last time I had a holiday. Oh the joy of keeping monitors.

the bent head look? haha. Do you have a picture of one of these?

maybe it's just the v.p.panoptes that's called "Yellow spot", and the rubidus I'm sure has another common name that I'm not aware of.