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This is the sav from the place where I work. He is really cool. Not very handable, but still neat. Anyone have good tips to tame him down?

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Cheers,
Michael Starkey
Arboreal Addictions

Beautiful colors.

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Cheers,
Michael Starkey
Arboreal Addictions

I would not worry about taming it, I would worry about getting some weight on him/her. From the pic and thats all I have to go by, its very skinny and has little fat reserves. They need fat reserves.(to deal with our mistakes)

I know lots of peoples first concern is taming and holding and such. I also know theres lots of banter both ways, to hold or not to hold. Please understand, I can give a flying donkey bungholiO about that. The point is, if you take good care of your monitor and it becomes healthy and grows up, it will mostly become tame without doing anything.

Again, I would think the first concerns are to allow the monitor to become healthy, then after that, there may not be a need to ask, how to tame it. If its still mean and nasty after it grows up, then you can ask.

Its only commonsense, if you have to ask how to tame a monitor(all who ask it) it simply means, you don't know how. So if its explained, it does not mean you know how. The reality is, you will make mistakes and cause stress on the monitor. In its current condition, that could be fatal. In time and with practice(thats how you learn something) you could do both, get your monitor healthy and tame at the same time. There are those with experience enough to do that.

Personally I like to form a bond with monitors, you know like falconers do, we become partners not dominators. I think they become much tamer that way and surely more fun.

Like with falconers, trust and a food bond are the key. Also like with falconers, it does take some time. Good luck FR

What do you reccomend to get him to weight? He eats readily. Right now all we offer are crickets. We have available meal and wax worms, pinks/fuzzies and that is about it. I believe his temps are alittle too low(100) so I will boost that up a bit. Besides that we have the husbandry down. Thanks in advance.
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Cheers,
Michael Starkey
Arboreal Addictions

Feed it was much as it can eat and get those basking temps up to around 130.

Start feeding pinkies it will eventually start to put on some weight. My savannah is smaller than that and he loves to chow down pinkies.