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ive been thiking about a monitor,but a few factors come into play.

it cant get too big,i want my girlfriend to be able to hold it and she get intimitaded(sp?)easily if its too big.

what i mean my too big is something that is 3 feet.

something friendly or even tempered as well...remember the girlfriend?

food doesnt matter as i get all my mice for free from my sister so food consumption doesnt play a factor.

something that doesnt require a whole room sized cage,maybe a 55G or so,i do however have a 4x2x2 not in use so hopefully at most this will do.

what do you think?
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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 mali uromastyx
0.0.3 tokay's(adults unsexed)

well if i was you i would get an ackie they stay small and are very well tempered if this is your first monitor thats what i would start with then if you want something a little bigger go with a savana theyt are a good choice to ackie's are well tempered and stay relitvely small go to proexotics.com and check them out they have some yellow ackies right now i believe and red to good luck

i was thinking an ackies was a good choice as well,i was told there was an even smaller monitor but could have misunderstood what i was hearing.

but like i said as long as its tempermant is decent it should make a great pet for the both of us.

i just didnt want to end up with a monitor as evil as my tokays there small so they pose no threat me to.

my brother in-law keeps offering me a nile but i heard all types of bad things about thier nasty ill behaved tempers.

ill check that site out now and see what they have available....thanks for the reply

kali
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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 mali uromastyx
0.0.3 tokay's(adults unsexed)

Niles get pretty huge anyway... ackies are cool because they're captive bred. That's tough to find in monitors.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

i had the same question you are
asking and after much research, especially
on kingsnake.com, i figured an ackie
was the best way to go.
i didn't want a pet that was
gonna take my hand off and
from what i hear ackies rarely bite if ever.
i wanted something relatively small too,
4ft. range at most.
Anyway, i went to the show in
deerfield on the 29th as posted on
the main page and the first booth i
went to had 3 baby red ackies for $145 each.
i couldn't find one anywhere, much less
under $300 and the ones i saw on the
net for sale weren't babies.
needless to say i am very grateful to
this site for the information it
provided me before i made my
purchase and now i have a baby ackie.
here's some pics.
no name yet, anyone have suggestions?
oh, and goodluck, i think your best
bet for a purchase will be at the shows.

here's another pic, this one may help put
him to scale a little better.

i hope hes gets a little bigger than that!

he's cute though im going to have to look into them more,i have a reptile expo in april and my birthday is the day before(get where im going with this one)so hopefully a breeder has a few to hanlde and look at.

thanks for the pics as they gave me a better idea of them.

kali
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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 mali uromastyx
0.0.3 tokay's(adults unsexed)