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They are growing at an inch a week.. Eating roaches, minnows, crayfish, worms, mice, rat pups & shrimp.

They have a whole network of tunnels under the surface.. pretty cool.

This hole on the surface is quite small, I set the cam on macro and shined a flashlight down the hole to get these.

The tunnels connect and I can often hear them hissing down under the surface.

Basking.... Littlefoot is sprawled out flat, this is common to maximize surface area to absorb radiant heat from above.

Here we can clearly see the nictitating membrane (third eyelid) "blinking" on the right eye

In a really bad mood.....

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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Savannah Monitors
Snakes and Lizards, It don't get any better....

they look awesome as usual! Great job!

I believe in an earlier thread you said the dimensions of the enclosure were 8x4x4 (?). Do you have any pictures of the outside of the enclosure, so I can get an idea what it looks like? Got a group of young argus monitors I'm raising up, and am looking for ideas as to exterior cage design. Got a pretty good grasp on what goes IN the cage (as far as substrate, lighting/heat, etc), but I'd like to see what the outside of yours looks like, so I can maybe extrapolate that in to a larger enclosure for my guys. Thanks!

Holy crap!

Savannah Monitors housed correctly and looking healthy and fit. I have seen that so rarely that it's shocking. LOL They're usually blubber balls in fish tanks barely heated and nothing to do fed too much. Good job so far.

"Holy crap!

Savannah Monitors housed correctly and looking healthy and fit. I have seen that so rarely that it's shocking. LOL They're usually blubber balls in fish tanks barely heated and nothing to do fed too much. Good job so far."

Yeah, what he said!

here is some construction shots of the frame too..

The framing is treated 2x6 lumber bolted together to form 4x6 spars with locking tabs for the bolts.

and it's insulated to keep energy costs down.

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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Savannah Monitors
Snakes and Lizards, It don't get any better....

I like the recycled plates you used.

Sustainable herpetoculture.

Nice!

Hey Wayne,
They are looking great and you've bonded well.
Mike
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Mike's Monitors!

Here are a couple of old pictures of my old Sav I trade for a Uro...

you have the nicest looking savannah I've ever seen.

What kind of soil is that? It looks like you got the mixture just right if they are digging and making tunnels all over the place.

It was harvested from the creek bank behind my house.

Whenever it rains really hard, the water runoff from the hill picks up decomposed rock, decomposed vegetation, sand and clay, then the water evaporates and leaves it as a topsoil deposit on the creek bank.

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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Savannah Monitors
Snakes and Lizards, It don't get any better....

Be careful and watch out for glasses. I once found glasses in the dirt I was collecting for my Uro so I didn't use it.

Looks like a good dirt if they are digging holes already.