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Anyone have any info.I looked up the info and they seem easy enough as far as basic care.But what am I not reading, usually there is a host of things that I need to learn about before I get them.
Biggest concern would be how hard are they to cleanup after? I cant imagine poop running down branches on a daily basis since they are arboreal and rather large.That must be really difficult to keep the cage clean.It might be the one thing that puts me off..I dont know if I would have the time to clean the entire cage daily.
ANy good sites?
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The basics for any monitor is easy enough (to read). What is difficult is keeping it up. Day to day feeding, water, etc. All the time. You will learn a lot more from experience than people can tell you in words. Tree monitors are (from what i hear) less forgiving and a harder monitor to start with.

Just get to know the basics really good on all monitors and tweek it to tree monitors. Read around the forums and get info from many people (but make sure the ones you listen to are successful, not newbs). One thing that i see in tree monitors a lot is dehydration.

Cheers,
Sean

If you could keep live plants you would not have to clean at all. You would have your own ecosystem. I did this with anoles, but im sure it is way harder with monitors.

tree monitors stress easily and go downhill quickly. you must be able to read and react more quickly.

the hardest part of working with tree monitors, especially Black Trees, is finding strong, high quality animals.
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robyn@proexotics.com

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Robyn
I have seen your "newer?" photos of your Prasinus copulating, anything ever become of it?
Mike

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not a thing. we have moved from our old facility into a temporary spot while we build a new facility, so i am not expecting a lot from them in this transition anyway...
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robyn@proexotics.com

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Do you mean because of bad husbandry or surroundings being to noisy/overstimulating..Because I have a very busy house and if the latter is the case its probably not the ideal animal for this house.
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I DONT want any wildcaught animals myself.
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Your not going to find any captive borns any time soon.
Mike
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i am not aware of any cb black trees, so they will be wild caught regardless.

stress is a lot of issues. all that you mentioned and more, including the possibly fatal stress of just shipping them from here to there. that has been enough to kill (in time) that type of monitor before.
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robyn@proexotics.com

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C4
I have 8 children and it never stopped my Tree Monitors!
The noise level here is unbeleivable until say 11:00pm!
Mike
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wow that is alot of kids.I have 4 boys and thats plenty for me.I honestly dont think that I want to deal with wild caughts though.I might in the future they are some pretty awesome looking beasties.But for now I will stick with cb species.
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C4
I have established some very WEAK imports, once all the work is done they (imports) are very hardy Animals!
Mike

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