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Magpye · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: Breeding V. tristis orientalis

I'm venturing into the world of breeding my monitors, having bred other species before, and I'm wondering what's best for the monitor.

Should I separate the male and female after she shows signs of being gravid to prevent him from harassing her.
If I have a trio, is it safe to keep the 2 females together whether they are gravid or not.
Freckled monitors from what I have read prefer to nest in hollow logs. The clutch is then removed and incubated at approx 84-86F - however I can find no mention of humidity.

Is there anyone that has bred this species before successfully that can shed any more light?

Regards

Dave

ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:57 am Post subject:

hi

i breded the tritis orientalis last year. after a few weeks of seperating, they started to corpulate and after 4-5 weeks she tryed to digg, but because i haven´t seen the pairing and so one, i haven´t much supstrat in the enclosure. but the one egg that i could found was fertiled and the little sweety hatched after approx. 110 days with 29 degrees. hopefully this will work this year ,too. of course i haven´t seperat the man, but as far as i could recognize, he haven´t stressed here. regards martin
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keeping: Varanus:
acanthurus
gilleni
tristis orientalis
tristis orientalis red head
panoptes panoptes
caudolineatus
varius
salvator cumingi
Brachylophus fasciatus
Petrosaurus repens

ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:59 am Post subject:

a, i forgot, i keep the 2 females the hole year together. there was never any stress i could see
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keeping: Varanus:
acanthurus
gilleni
tristis orientalis
tristis orientalis red head
panoptes panoptes
caudolineatus
varius
salvator cumingi
Brachylophus fasciatus
Petrosaurus repens

Magpye · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:23 am Post subject:

Thanks, a few people have now advised they don't separate the pair and have had very few problems.

Do you recall what humidity you incubated the egg at?

ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

i used vermiculit. i breeded them the same way as my acanthurus and gillenis .
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keeping: Varanus:
acanthurus
gilleni
tristis orientalis
tristis orientalis red head
panoptes panoptes
caudolineatus
varius
salvator cumingi
Brachylophus fasciatus
Petrosaurus repens

Magpye · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:20 am Post subject:

Thanks - I've seen the thread about incubation problems so I don't expect there to be a definitive guide beyond the act of mating. Will try it the Ackie way the first time around as you suggest.