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I just purchased this trio of yellow ackies last Thursday evening from the great Exotic Amphibian and Reptile Center here in Saint Louis, MO, and thought all of you would enjoy seeing these little guys. They are incredibly active and entertaining to watch as they voraciously hunt down their food, leaping, twisting, turning, and burrowing to find crickets.

Congratulations! You will have a ball with these guys. I love mine, they are fun to watch, fearless and very friendly. It is fun to watch them grow into beautiful adults. Best of luck with them. The picture is from my first cluth from last year.

Pam

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2.3 varanus acanthurus brachyurus (Dorado, Oro, Dora, Freckles & Amarillo)
1.1 varanus acanthurus acanthurus (Tabasco & Sprite)
1.1 u. macfadyeni (Amani & Abeba) RIP Ayana
1.2 u. ornata (Husani, Zari, & Bintu)
1.1 u. ocellata (Zuhri & Ashai)
0.1.2 u. a. aegypticus (Zahra Urbi, Halima & Sagira)
1.1 hyla chrysoscelis (Pudge & Squirt)

they look real nice i herd they were only for sale for 1 day i was going to get some other babies from him but i did not, good luck with them babies,,,,,,,, did you say you got the other argus cross pair from jim i think you said you did? if so how are they doing
tjsreptiles

Yeah, it was a shame they were for sale for such a short period of time! As soon as I saw them, I bought them up! Actually, I went in there to purchase the yellow monitor Jim had for sale and saw the Ackies. I said to myself, "Matthew, you can finally get an ackie trio, breed them later, and then get into a yellow monitor project." I purchased the Ackies and have been daily delighted with them. They are growing to be my favorites. The way they interact with each other, chase their food, and dig all over the place is awesome.
I did aquire the other Argus/Flavi pair from Exotic ARC in a trade deal and have been pleased as well. The female is rapidly putting on more weight, eating quite well, and much easier to handle than the male. The male is not bashful, swiftly investigating what I'm bringing in when I open his cage, hoping it's rats or chicken peeps. He actually charges the entrance most days. He has not bit me, but I haven't given him the chance when holding him. Being so food responsive, powerful, and swift, I prefer to let him be. I'm much faster and have a much bigger brain, but I don't want to slip up around him. Sometimes the big Argus and their kin just have to be left alone. They are very active, great eaters, and fun to watch as they dig and investigate, but I'll stick with my other monitors to chill with and handle. I posted some pictures in the monitor photo gallery and have more if you want to take a look. What do you have in your collection, besides those nice crosses?

You've got male matt!

Nice ackies!

matt,
the yellow tree monitor used to be mine!!!! i traded it to jim, it was the best little monitor it had a huge cage in my living room for him i raised it for a very small baby almost 2 years or so,,but i had a baby a while back moved and i had to let some stuff go i hated sell it but i had to, i hate to even talk about it ,, jim did have 2.2 adult argus i got one pair and you got the other,,,the male you got is huge but nice color on front legs, the pair i got from jim i have not put together i want to faten them up more, i got 1 other pair together now i hope to get some eggs they mate all the time so,,maby sometime,, have you found any good web sits on crosses or info on eggs? here a pic of my old yellow monitor i

tjsreptiles

So you ended up getting his argus/flavi pair?

Check out this website and follow the links to the Argus pages.

http://www.pizards.com/

Here is another excellent resource...
http://coloherp.org/cb-news/Vol-29/cbn-0208/index.php

nice BT i had some few years ago, but got out of them they were close to breeding size i should have keep them, may i ask what you paied for them 3 akies from jim i no he had some babies while back for 125 i need to get some of those i want to try to breed akies some day, did you go to jims show over the weekend, i did not to much there for monitors, and thanks for the web sites,
this is a pic for the pair together mating, not the pair from jim this is the pair i hope to get babies from
tjsreptiles