not monitors, but cool lizards nonetheless, and a cool occurence relative to breeding and hatching...
we had Ornate Uro babies come up from the soil today, 200 days after the gravid female went down to lay.
setup in our 10 ft circular troughs, with 2 ft of DG soil, the babies look to be perhaps a week old, and they sure are hard to catch in such a large setup : )
we have other females that laid in the weeks after this first female, in other cages, so i hope to see more babies soon. one of the goals of our large setups with Ornate Uros was to see if we could hatch them in-situ, and while one success doesn't guarantee much, it is a great start. i was certainly starting to worry as time passed (55-65 days to hatch in the incubator).
we have counted about a dozen babies so far, but they keep darting back underground, so it is hard to keep track. babies are plump, healthy, and doing well. we have pulled them from the cage and started them back in small tanks, we will probably polish off the adult group with at least some of this stock.
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