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Which monitor would you have choosen to be your first??(with the knowledge you have now)

I think I would have gotten a few Rudis.

Michelle

Several albigs and water monitors , some argus as well. Instead, of so many snakes.
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"Feed um then heat um"
"The less you breed the more you read"

even though i knew about the niles temperament,i really wanted to get a larger herp but didnt want an iguana or burmese.But now i wouldnt change her for the world,she may despise my presence but i have a cctv camera in her enclosure and i can watch her for hours,searching for that mouse in the ground or trying to reach the 1 thats just outta mouth reach hung up on the branchbut on reflection i seriously didnt realise how much time a monitors takes to look afterI guess my flaw was in thinking its just a reptile like my snakes or like my leos.Now i think of her as more of a baby who needs constant this or constant that,but like i say,shes a gem and i love her to bits
jason

I gotta try that with my Timors! They dont appreciate my vouyerism very much at all!
~Michelle

It seems that the majority of people start off with a Nile or Bosc. 5 year ago, i got a Nile monitor. I had one when I was 15, but only for few a brief time before my aunt made the shop owner take it back. That was also a Nile. Its only been in the last 9 months or so that Ive really done much growing and started to really try to learn about varanids. It was just last year that I started even getting on the net to learn about these animals. Before that I was going off what the pet stores would advise, or my very out of date monitor husbandry books!
Shoot, I believe I was just saying in January of this year that a rodent based diet leads to fatty liver disease! Nothing beats experience, but it sure helps being able to have access to people who know what theyre doing to get some rough ideas! I just find it interesting how much knowing just a little bit more, can totally reshape the way we view the world and decisions we make, or in this instance, would have made.
I love all my monitors that I have, and in having them, I have a lifelong commitment that I will do my best to fulfill. I must say though, I would have done everything different if I knew then, what I know now. -Or what I think I know...be as it may!

Im sure in a year from now Ill be laughing at my follies yet again! Thats the joy in living I suppose. If you cant laugh at yourself, well then I guess other people are just having all the fun!

All the best,
Michelle

Hey, I hear you. I'm absolutely appalled at the stupid things I've said on here. I'm afraid now to post anything else, in case I'm cringing again, another year from now. Wow, wonder what I'll think of me now, five years from now? hahahahaha, laughing my butt off, hopefully. If not, it means I didn't learn much.

In response to your subject line... I wanted rudis. The whole herp world opened to me when I started to volunteer at a new pet shop here. When everyone was starting with leos and beardies and corns, I wanted rudis. The more I read and saw pics of other monitors, the more I wanted rudis.
Now that I've met different species of monitor, I like them all, but I'm even more in love with my rudis, all rudis.
I'm a pretty happy camper. =)

All the best to you.
D.