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Can anyone direct me to a website with info on the care and breeding of V. glauerti? Or maybe you have tips yourself? It will be *many* years before I can afford these guys, but a girl can dream!

If you want, you can keep them pretty much like ackies, though they are really an arboreal forest monitor. You could go higher humidity and use organic substrate like dirt and leaf litter also, though I have had success in nesting with non-organic substrate. They like to climb and and hide in elevated areas.

Hi Mike, Kimberlys are not really a forest monitors. They come from monsoonal parts of Northern Oz, mostly northern W.A. with a small disconected population southeast of Darwin.

While they do live in rocks and trees, the trees are smallish trees, not what is considered forest. In the area they occur, there are pockets of "Equatorial rain forest" They seem to avoid these, and live on the edges of these. Consider, these rain forests, are very very small, sometimes as little as a few hundred meters wide. They occur normally in deep canyons and follow canyons.

Back to the monitors. consider, they occur with ackies. I mean, I have found ackies within a few feet of a kimberly. And Tristis, within a few feet of those two, as well.

So yes, Kimberlys, tend to live more on rocks and trees and ackies tend to live more on the ground, both will do both. Thanks FR

Hi there,

I have some info on my own husbandry of my kimberlies posted on my website. There's some info on how I house them, feed them, care for them, as well as some info on breeding, although I have yet to successfully hatch any out-you can view pics of my "fiasco" from last year on my site as well..

Kimberlies are a lot of fun to keep and truly are magnificent animals, both in beauty as well as temperment. I am working on a brand new website, it should be done within a couple of weeks(hopefully). I will keep everyone posted on the completion of it. Some of my husbandry info on my current site is a bit outdate, and I have slightly altered my husbandry since, but you can get a general idea of how I keep my V. glauerti.

Cheers, I hope this helps a bit. Take care, have a wonderful day!

bob
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