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Is it possible for one a croc monitor to be gravid right after dropping eggs, isnt there a cycle off period? or is it possible for them to drop eggs every couple of months?

Sounds like a good thing to me.
Ive been told that in captivity most monitors do just like my old beardies did, lay constantly when they have the proper support to allow for it.
Good luck...

Its been under 2 months. It would be great, but this female was alone due to her being gravid and seperated from males. Is it possible that she dropped only half the eggs and held the others an extra month or 2?

I have never heard of that and she appears ready to drop again?

No offense, but for someone who claims to know all about croc monitors, and knows who has done what, you sure do not know much.

I guess if you do not look out the window, nothing happens out there.

What that means is, Croc monitors as well as all other large monitors(and small monitors) multiclutch. Its been done and reported many times. The fact that its a surprise to you is very odd.

I am getting an imagine of your approach, if you keep talking we will all understand.

You may think your little cages are good because you had a female drop eggs. What is very misleading about that is, females drop eggs if they feed on a normal basis, it has nothing to do with the cage. All they have to do is feed.

I believe this was published in both viv and reptiles, in the early 90's, articules on our work here. Monitors drop eggs like crazy that is not a problem. The problem is getting eggs that hatch or are hatchable. This takes conditions are not normally available in small cages. Notice the word, normally.

Please do not get me wrong, you can hatch eggs laid in shoe boxes, but its not normal. Its always percentages, normally improper nesting and temperature selection, results in a high percentage of non-hatchable eggs. Proper temp selection and nesting results in a high percentage of hatchable eggs. Getting methods righ is judged by percentage of hatch. A high percentage means something is right. Getting no, or low hatchrates means your doing something wrong. When attempting to breed monitors, its just about that simple.

To make it clear, getting a croc monitor to lay eggs and do it many times in a year, is not and has not been a problem.

By the way, how are all those eggs you recieved doing? Post some pics of them. We would all enjoy that. Thanks FR

I have ZERO experience with breeding, ill repeat it, NO EXPERIENCE. None whatsoever, i was an importer, no experience breeding them at all, none. No experience in egg hatching either, NONE, none at all, ZERO. I have got the monitors to start dropping eggs, i should be able to figure out how to hatch them, as of now ive converted an 4x8 enclosure into an incubater, large ar volume at a consistant 82 degrees with a stable 90% humidity.

The eggs were infertil on both clutches, even though i saw copulation on both, the multicluch will be infertil too, why? because she was without male, unless they can somhowe be fertile.

Again, my enclosures arent small, they are larger then your buddy "Jobi", who reccomends crocs ca be in 6x6's and o breed them a 6x12. Mine are 8x10-10x10 and larger. I have no experience in breeding as i mentioned above. The breeding process is new to me, I have no experience in breeding or hatching eggs. NONE. none whatsoever, none, none none. But im learning and eventualy i will figure it out.

What i have learned here on the forum is that you have tons of experience in the keeping and breeeding of monitors(maybe the best in the world), thats great, ive also learned you contridict yourself alot and lose or have lost your credibility with many here because your advice wavers back and forth. I dont think you mean to do this on purpose rather jump to conclusions to early which depends on what mood you are in.

hahahahahahahahahaha just thought that would get your attention.

About me contradicting myself. Thats is still misunderstood.

First, its very possible that the gap of experience is to great for, you and others, to understand what I am saying. This gap is well understood in other walks of like. (People tend to form groups based on levels of understanding) For instance, newbies tend to like newbies, intermediate levels like intermediates, advanced like advances, etc. This is so, simply because of levels of understanding(they understand eachother).

Add to that the fact that my credibility is of no importance what so ever. Why would it be? One of my opponents gave here an attacked me, saying he was going to destroy my credibility, I laughed. Who the heck cares. My credibility is only the hatchlings I produce. I am a breeder. Therefore, its hatchlings that give me my name. If I do not hatch something, then I am not a breeder. Being a breeder is a discription from the result. Not the attempt to do something. As long as I do that(do stuff), I do not need "paper" credibility. If someday I stop being successful, then I have no need to live on pass success. I will be done. I will have lost my credibility.

You must understand, its not about knowing or thinking you know something. When your goal is to allow reproduction, ITs the results that tell you if your right or wrong. And let me tell you right here and now, I do not care what you think you know, the monitors will be telling you just how wrong you are, FROM now until enternity. So yes, I do not think I need to be right, only the results should be right. I often change my prespective, You know, as you continue to learn. I find out that all last years thoughts were simply last years thoughts. One of the reasons I do not write(books) is, I may read them and start to believe them. If I do not write it, I can simply change as I go, which is what causes my success.

That you think you know something is like a heavy pair of handcuffs. It will surely restrict your ability to learn.

All and all, my credibility is having MONITOR eggs in the incubator from 1991 until now, without a single day of not having eggs. Now sir, thats credibility. So you see, I do not think, thoughts need to be right, results do, I do not feel the need to know anything, only achieve good results. Remember players play and talkers talk about playing. Think about that. FR

You dont kill sick monitors

What, you kill healthy ones, hahahahahahahahahahaha man that was an easy one.