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who thinks this is possible.

shes a savannah.

words of wisdom?
past experiences?

Thats an odd question. Many people keep Savs or even larger monitors in apartments. So yes, its possible, its just not wise.

You can keep one alive, but can you give it a life. That is a better question. You know, room to move, lots of substrate to dig a network of tunnels, etc. You know, what they normally do in life. Cheers

This is actually why I won't move out of my family home on 25 acres to get an apartment with my boyfriend, something he finds extremely frustrating.

Can't say I approve of attempting to house monitors in small spaces such as apartments, personally.
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1.1 Ornate Uromastyx [Re and Wadjet]
1.0 Savannah Monitor [Zephyrus]
1.0 Quince Monitor [Poe]
1.2 Eastern Box Turtles [Zoink, Boink, and Abel]
1.0 Green Iguana (Rescue Mission) [Achilles]
0.1 Pink-Toe Tarantula [Athena]

Are you talking about free roaming, where it's living quarters are yours & vice-versa?

OR

Are you talking about whether or not a sav can be raised within the walls of an apartment (in an enclosure or bedroom) due to its limitations?

HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

if she were to walk around (free roam) i would fear to have my nads bitten off at every moment.
she doesnt like to be touched and i think it would be more like i were living in her apartment rather than her in mine. (haha)
i would keep her in an enclosure if this is possible at all. she is in a big tank now (50 or 60 gallon?) that is at ground level but she is growing fast and i am going to build something permanent for her final size but i dont know how an apartment manager would feel about me having a huge enclosure (and huge lizard) in the apartment and was wondering if anyone has delt with this conumdrum before.

Fr pretty well nailed , then. I just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same track,

The only way you'll ever have a "huge enclosure" in an apartment is to construct it inside the apartment or make it in sections that can be assembled once it's in the desired room.

And then, to give it a life, like FR mentioned about giving it plenty of dirt/soil to dig in, well, that's quite a few 5-gallon buckets to be carrying. That's likely to draw a wee bit of attention from fellow residents. Ha! Ha!

With that said, there are some that don't provide soil. I don't know what effects that has on the sav but I suspect it does have some.

You'll have to review your contract for the apartment to find any loopholes (hint, hint). Sometime it can be as much about what it doesn't say as it is what it does say.
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

First it provides the monitor the ability to actually make a home. That home is suppose to be the right temps, and a base humidity to not allow dehydration or wet. You know, like your house, not hot or cold or wet or too dry.

Even throwing that out, which most people do, as they do not think reptiles have a life. Deep dirt is like an exercise wheel. It allows constant exercise in a relatively small area. Many folks understand that.

That the lack of deep substrate causes, is common sense, take the above away from any animal or human and see what happens. Cheers

Only possible if you get a 2 bedroom apartment and devote one room or half of it entirely to the monitor lizard. But also you have to take into accounts other factors... An apartments air conditioner is not typically designed to offset many 250 watt heat emitters and an apartments power supply is typically alot less then a houses.

If you are using many 250 watt heat emitters, something is seriously wrong!!!

I kept my last house a/c at 75* and had no problem in a 4x8 cage keeping the basking area at 145* with just a couple 45 watt floods.