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Below you mentioned you thought the monitor forum/s was a tad special(as in short bus special)

You also mentioned that other forums were not nearly so special.

Heres something to thing about. Monitors are the least established group and least successful. Success has been the most recent.

In all those other groups, such things as breeding are not exceptional, they are commonplace. Therefore, the greater number of people are on the same page. They all know and understand, that if you, cross your tees and dot your eyes(hahahahaha) you will be successful.

In other words, with monitors, theres a greater diversity. You have newbes who think all monitors are being bred, you have a great percentage of keepers keeping wildcaught animals(not so with most other groups) and you still have a percentage of "old school" that have let progress past them by, they are still kicking and screaming. And of course all inbetween.

Yes, its the last frontier. Funny thing is, monitors are by far the easist reptile I ever bred. Keep up the good work, FR

You are right about that Frank. I don't know if I would say that breeding couperi and heloderms are commonplace but as you mentioned, if you follow a certain protocol, they are not all that problematic but still more challenging than pythons, etc and certainly monitor breeding is a very recent phenomenon. And you say that monitors are easy to breed...it is funny how far we have come as it wasn't too long ago that all of the literature said that it was nearly impossible to breed any varanid. Go figure. So when will Komodo Dragons become common place?

They are, or could be. Once I was talking to Trooper Walsh, and he told me and showed pics of a trip he took to indo. He/they, thought they were going to help this indo zoo with their KD project, after all, they were experienced. Well, when he got there, he discovered pen after pen of baby KD's stacked up like so much cordwood. He then said, it turned out, they could and did teach us. Cheers FR

I bet the Indonesian keepers just fed the heck out of them and let the lizards do the rest.

We need a puppy farm for KD's. They need to be available to anyone silly enough to want one as a pet. This way, we never have to worry about them going extinct.

Of course, protecting habitat wouldn't be a bad thing.