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My Savanna monitor. What do think?

honestly, looks a little skinny and dehydrated

When I got on Saturday, he was like that. I have to work on fattening him up. I'm getting him some small fuzzy mouse this weekend. In the meantime, he'll just have to eat some crickets.

Get him enough food to eat everyday and he will do so. When I had hatchlings of any monitor, I offered pinkies and crickets at all times. They would eat both as their interest dictated. That would be a good start for your little monitor.
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Monitors, monitors everywhere
and all the food they ate.
Monitors, monitors everywhere,
their parents loved to mate.

I have to agree - your savanna monitor looks sick...the base of his tail (and the rest of him) is nothing but bones, he doesn't appear to be able to hold up his own weight and his eyes are sunken into his head. When I got my savanna he didn't look as bad as yours, and I took him to the vet (2 days later) where they promptly informed me that he had at 50% survival rate at best - respiratory infection, dehydration, calcium deficiency, parasites... (It's been well over a year now, he's OK - a miracle) Please - at the very least, keep him warm, make sure he has access to water, a good place to hide, and I hate to be jaded, but I hope you kept your reciept. That animal should never have been sold.
tatiana

Here is a photo of my savannah monitor the day before I brought him to the vet - and the same lizard 8 months later, after a lot of heartache, vet bills, time and energy. I have only myself to blame for not doing my research well enough before purchase...though I don't shop at the store that sold me that lizard anymore either.
Point is - can you see the similarities?

From the picture, I see mesh screen in the back.
Do you keep your savannah in the Reptarium Cage?

If you do, you might want to change the cage pretty soon.
I used to house a blue tegu in Reptarium until he was about 1.5ft.
Then he clawed himself out.

If not, good looking lizard!

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ha - funny you should say that - I wondered if anyone would post on it.
No - it was plexiglass inside mesh - I had a "custom built" (out of a coffeetable) cage and it needed some modifications to make it suitable.
It's all since been changed 3x over..gotta love Home Depot.
Good eye, though.
Tatiana

Also, please stop handling him until he settles in and gets a lot more weight on. Second, swap the fuzzy mice for pinkies.

That looks really sick. Close to death even. You need veterinary advice quick.
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Mampam Conservation

hahaha why would you post pics of that, it looks horrible. Mine is a little smaller than that but he is solid.
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