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i cant decide on my next pair of animals either argus monitor or boas.. my question is about the argus pair,

can they be housed togethe their whole life, are any argus wc bc i would think most are cb, would i be better off getting a pair of sub adulkts or a pair of babies, one last quetion about he eggs, how many eggs does a female lay about.

thanks for the help
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Zero to 4 legs
1.0 Black Rough Neck Monitor
1.1 Bearded Dargon
1.0 Ball Python
1.0 dog(black lab)
R.I.P. Bailey gone but still in my heart

if you get a pair of argus monitors, you'll need to have two cages. sometimes you can get lucky to find a pair that lives together peacefully. but often times there's aggression issues that can easily lead to the death of one. a pair will require a very large cage.

it's common for females to lay between 6 and 12 eggs.

WC argus are very common. so is captive hatched. don't buy either. there is plenty of CB argus babies out there.

cheers
shay

I might be mistaken but aren't Panoptes an austrailian goanna and therefore are all captive bred? Or do they inhabit an offshore island that allows exporting of wildlife?

Nate

there's 3 subspecies of v.panoptes.
1, v.panoptes panoptes
2, v.panoptes rubidus
3, v.panoptes horni

the first two live in Australia and do not exist in america for the most part. however v.panoptes horni lives in Papua New Guinea and is exported to america on a regular basis.

cheers