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anyone see the new Albligularis/Whitethroat article in the new Reptiles Magazine?

"keep your basking spot up to 105F if you want to breed"

woe, the state of monitor literature...
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

Yes, I thought it was lame!
Old, recycled info and photos. I especially like the
black throat on the cover with the caption "White - Throated
Monitors".
I was extremely disapointed that there was no mention of white
throat breeders like Rob Faust, FR, etc. Nor was there any quotes or experiences listed from the afore mentioned.
Come on REPTILES, get with it!

Eric!! How have you been!! I tried emailing you back, but it just kept being sent back to me. I lost your number also, lol. I wanna catch up with you on things. Your Nile, your Tegus, Troll, etc.
Email me your number.

And to stay on topic...
I really have no experience with breeding blackthroats, but it doesn't take experience to know thats a bunch of BS that makes no sense and is entirely misleading.

I havent seen the article, but to let you know that the blackthroated monitor is just a different subspecies of the whitethroated monitor (ie the same species, like a dog and a gray wolf). Therefore both are whitethroated monitors (varanus albigularis).
That aspect of the article would be true, but as I said I havent read or seen the article, most of these are written by someone who can write a good article, but doesnt know much about them (ie authors, not keepers or those who study them).
Usually the blackthroat is much much more common in the petrade here in the US, therefore it is more commonly kept. Exporting specifically whitethroats is much more difficult depending on the country they come from.
Years ago I used to buy that magazine, a big part of the articles are pretty bad in all honesty when it comes to captive husbandry on most species.

"basking can be up to 105 degrees, especially if breeding is desired."

Let's hope that was a typeo and they really meant 150 degrees... Judging from the rest of the article it probably wasn't a typeo though. Shame, shame.

It was complete garbage.

It doesn't suprise me. I have his (Michael Balsai) book from around 1992 that recommends newspaper or butcher paper as a decent substrate as well as well as recommending hot rocks and screen top aquariums.