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heres a video of my two savannah monitors Taz and Otis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfceAudV7aM

my god- do yourself a favor and read down this forum for some husbandry info---------even know you are one of those experiances handlers yo!

I couldnt help but really laugh out loud to your reply. hahahahahahaha. dang. I'll tell you what, monitors do bite hard.

Cheers,
Mike.

Hi how are you? Nice monitors, however, you need to make some adjustments in your set up. Switch to top soil and place some flat rocks under their light so they can get up to the needed 130F basking temp. Its a surface temperature, you want the rock itself to be that hot not the air temperature. They need it to digest their food properly... and just live. The sand does not hold the moisture its gotta go. Some people mix sand with their top soil, I don't bother with that for this species.

For baby savs I keep them in a 40 breeder tank. I just use a piece of plexiglass laid over half the top of the tank to hold the humidity. I take a small pale of water and water half the tank once a week and the other half the next week. So they always have a choice of dry or wet.

thanks alot for the advice! i have been hearing alot of diffrent things from diffrent people so i was a little bit confused. i change the tank as soon as possible!

Many people totally overlook the majestic Bosc Monitor (savannah monitor)...mainly because every pet shop you walk into will have 1/2 dozen or so small Boscs laying in a typical pet shop tank (light dome -maybe- and some pine or sand for the substrate, a cheap artificail hide, and a small water dish). When Monitors are kept in improper set-ups for a length of time they tend to loose their majesty and take on the look of a POW.

Your Boscs look pretty healthy; give them some housing improvements and they'll thrive.

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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Hello there,
I was trying to make out what you are using for substrate in the larger Savs tank, looks like that walnut shell bedding?
Thanks