Reptile Forum, Reptile Classifieds - CaptiveBred

[Rob_McGrory]

Asked in the shop again tonight and spoke to the guy that's been looking after them. he said he's probably 2 months - 3 months old at the most and either wild caught or captive farmed.

He's been out in full view basking on top of his warm hide for longer periods of time today and I've just spotted him eating a locust!!!
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0.1.0 Royal Python - Wednesday
0.0.1 Salvator Monitor - Banski
0.0.2 African Pygmy Dormice

[GJ]

As Rick_Albig mention previously there is no way of knowing how old it is. Sounds like the guy you bought him from is guessing its age from its size which is not reliable with imports.

Set it up properly and Leaving it be, don't hang around the viv more then necessary.

[jon_g]

Very cool looking salvator, I just found a few babies of these in my garden, they can get really tame here.
Mostly used for meat and skin products,

There have been some really beautiful salvaotrs found on island populations now (sulphur etc)

I'm keeping one of the babies as a pet, seems to be doing really well so far, just feeding on insects and rodent babies, Although no need to heat cages here just stick them out in the sun for a few hours each day.

[Dan Bristow]

as has already been stated,keep them at around 80-90 with a basking spot of 120-130. at night drop temp to 80-85 across the whole viv. good substrate is cypress mulch as will keep humidity up if sprayed regulary which is important for young waters.keep a nice big clean water bowl in the viv and a hide box and give them a luke warm bath once a week for 2 hours to fully hydrate them and ensure all the skin that these fast growing lizards shed comes off. keep the main diet when young based aroung gut loaded, dusted insects with a couple of small mice a week and keep under a 5%uv bulb.try not to handle apart from neccessary maintenance until its feeding better as looks a bit under weight plus if youve only just got it will be stressed enough. also as it will be an import take a poo sample to the vets and get it checked for internal parasites. hope that helps. Dan

[Rob_McGrory]

thanks for the advice.

I've been checking my temps over the last few days to make sure there OK, and keeping him humid.
He had eaten a pinky that I left for him yesterday and seems to love locusts. So hopefully he is going to start to put on some weight.


Anyone have pictures of their enclosures for their waters or large monitors.

I starting to draw up plans for his larger now and I'm looking for some inspiration
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1.1.0 Bearded Dragons - Girr and Lenore
0.1.0 Royal Python - Wednesday
0.0.1 Salvator Monitor - Banski
0.0.2 African Pygmy Dormice