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Hi,
i would like to know if anybody can help me. this will be my first water monitor and i plan to breed them as soon as thtere of age to reproduce. does anybody have any recomended incubation temps and what is the best diet for fastest growth. What do yall recomend i do to get young healthty offspring.

Check bloodbat's posts and his website. The address is usually in the post.

I think you should concern yourself with raising a compatible, healthy pair first. You've got a few years ahead of you before you can even begin to think about breeding these animals. Some things to consider are their enormous space requirements, enormous appetites and potential for enormously bad temperaments. Then comes the actual process of raising your little hatchling into a 4-6 foot plus adult over the course of 2-3 years. Once you get to that point, you have to hope that you have a compatible pair. If you make it that far and then have enough luck and skill to have allowed them the right conditions to actually copulate, then you need to provide a proper nesting site/substrate in order for the female to lay a healthy clutch and to come out of laying healthy herself. Hopefully by this point you have fertile, healthy eggs and THEN you need to setup the incubator and sit back for several months and hope that everything you've done so far has been adequate to allow those eggs to hatch out healthy babies. So, just out of curiosity, how much experience do yoou have raising monitors? Oh yeah, I would say go to ProExotics' site and read their care sheet and pick up the December (?) issue of Reptiles magazine which has a GREAT article on these beasts written by Robyn of PE. Best of luck! Billy

>>Hi,
>>i would like to know if anybody can help me. this will be my first water monitor and i plan to breed them as soon as thtere of age to reproduce. does anybody have any recomended incubation temps and what is the best diet for fastest growth. What do yall recomend i do to get young healthty offspring.

hi billy,
i have about 4 1/2 years of expirence with monitors and all kinds of other reptiles i've bred chamelions,and bearded dragons i've had lots of expirence with venomous snakes mostley rattlesnakes i know that water monitors require alot of space and that i have . i have a 2,000 square foot garage that is were i keep all my little beutiful reptiles i would attach some pics but my scanner is broken and i dont have a digital camera yet

Good deal!! Sounds like you should do alright with the big monsters then. I would suggest checking out cybersalvator.com and varanus.nl for information on nesting, laying and incubation. Best of luck and post some pics! Billy

>>hi billy,
>>i have about 4 1/2 years of expirence with monitors and all kinds of other reptiles i've bred chamelions,and bearded dragons i've had lots of expirence with venomous snakes mostley rattlesnakes i know that water monitors require alot of space and that i have . i have a 2,000 square foot garage that is were i keep all my little beutiful reptiles i would attach some pics but my scanner is broken and i dont have a digital camera yet