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very cool they already have eggs het for sulfer!!

on another not me and my dad are going down to reptile depot and getting a baby black throat tomarrow!!!

i'm so happy, monitors are great Animals BUT THEY NEED ALOT OF YOUR TIME AND MONEY!!! alot more then any snake!!!

i'm alway reading your post and using the husbandry advise thanks all.

from alex

I dunno... we should take a poll and see if adult water monitors take more time and money than adult andacondas or king cobras. It might be about even.
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I did hear about this, but from what i understand, its a female sulfur, male common. im interested in seeing babies of this type of mix. i have pure sulfurs copulating right now, hoping for eggs. -john
cybersalvator

Is the sulfur water a subspecies of water monitor? I had always thought that the sulfurs were a genetic mutation much like albinos. Dnj's site also mentions this.

Meaning that a sulfur bred to a normal would result in all normal babies that carry the sulfur gene assuming its a recessive gene. Or am I wrong again? Just trying to figure this out. either way they still are one of my favorite monitors.

Mike

hi,
the sulfurs are not recognised as a subspecies. i think sulfurs are just a color morph, among many different salvator color morphs that occur naturally. their pattern and color reflect thier environment. my 4 sulfurs are similar in some ways, and different in others. the differences are mainly color intensity, some being cloudy, others high contrast, one being orangey, while another is olive green. they all lack the temporal stripe that all other salvators have, and seem to have same scale shapes. another thing is with age, 2 of my sulfurs faded most of the black color from thier back and tail, and another retained the dark stripes and background. lastly, the sulfurs that were imported in the early 90s are very different from recent imports. maybe a few different localities? i only know of 1 so far. i have pics of all 4 on my site to see what im talking about. the pic here is my youngest. she is the orangey colored one but its hard to tell under the shedding skin. -john

cyber salvator