Hi Mike, I am sorry you take this poorly. i did give you all the credit in the world.

I do really hate that cut and paste approach you just took.

You forgot to cut and paste, the female died from reproductive complications to the 15 hatchling part. Which does change the meaning some.

Mind you, you did great. But the question was about shallow nesting. As you should know, nesting is a major cause of reproductive failures with VARANIDS.

That your female died from reproductive failure, brings into question the quality of nesting. Is it the shallow nesting? got me, I don't know, but it fits the pattern of failure with many varanids.

What is so very sad is, Why many people cannot talk about problems as well as successes. The reality is, with monitors, there are more problems then successes. You were successful at getting a few to hatch. That I congratulated you on(over and over). But the question is surrounding the area that may have caused your project to fail. The NESTING. which by the way is common with varanids.

So instead of being helpful, you choose to be sensitive about yourself. Which is nasty bad. As that kind of thing is what keeps allowing monitors to DIE(of reproductive failure).

In order to judge your methods, one needs to consider the entire outcome, not just the good part.

You had one single female lay five clutches and then she perished, is that so?

What gets me is, WE ALL FAIL in this area, but why do we hide it. The truth is, the problem is the areas we fail in, not the areas we succeed in. If we were in person, I would slap you and say, hey dude, I love you hatched that many, but why did the female die?????? You see, that is the problem. Why did she die? Was she old? fill us in Mike.

I am surely dumb as a stone, but I think how you fix something is fix the broken part, not fix the part that works. Yes?

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