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Hey everyone, hows it going? I just got to thinking...looking at all the thousands of misimformed and disqualified monitor care sheets on the 'net...everyone has an opinion. Which is totally ok. But, some are currently working in the monitor world
and some arent. My question is what do you all use for a nest box with monitors? Do you even use one? I cant seem to find any two care sheets that portray the same idea. I am in the middle of writing a new care sheet (on monitors in general, as general as it gets anyway), and need to know what has worked with you, and which species it has worked with. Let me know what your thoughts are, and please dont be afraid of criticism, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger! Feel free to email me with any quesions or comments! I love to talk about montitors, if you havent already figured that out.
Thanks for your help, and have a good one-
Jed Hassfeld
Varanus Creations

Hello,

What species are you concentrating on? Indos?

Best Regards,
Michelle
p.s.
Hey, what ever happened to Mr. Owens? Thought he sold off all his stock!? I heard that he was getting out of monitors. Kinda sucks considering he was only around for a short time.

I am not focusing on any locality, or even reagon. I breed monitors from all over and am writing a very general care sheet, followed by specific care sheets on each species that I sell. The general one is for species that I dont sell, but others do. Most care sheets are not valid to a certain species and some are simply not alible. I will only write one in which I have kept the species...which happens to be most. Let me know what you think. If any one has any new ideas on monitor husbandry that most people have not condidered then plese email me.
Thanks, Jed Hassfeld
Varanus Creations
Varanuscreations.com

This is going to take some searching on your part, but one of the breeders wrote a small, 6 part series of posts on varanus care right here on the monitor forum. I believe it was last month. If you look back through the posts, Im sure you can find them. They were extremely imformative. Perhaps you can take this information, pick through it, and format it into simplified laymans terms for newbies and such.-Maybe adding a couple visuals and what not. Ive actually done this myself.

Good luck!

Michelle

p.s. Are you guys still working with the Kimberlies?

Hey there, how are you? Yes we are still working with Kimberlys. They are on our web site if you want to check them out...[url]varanuscreations.com[url/]
Take is easy, Jed

Are death traps.

Unless you know exactly what a monitor needs for nesting (which you don't), then providing as many opitons as possible is a much more effective appraoch.

More space = more options.

Creeps-
Thanks for info. Actually that is what I have been doing for a couple years now. But I thought that mabye there was a better way...so I asked.
Thanks, Jed Hassfeld