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ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:03 am Post subject:

ah i see, you guy´s are the experts of monitor breeding and keeping ! i won´t discuss with you the right way of keeping monitors. i know that you guys from gb have your own "nature like" ideas of size and looklike of the enclosures. but maybe that´s the reason why more monitors are breeded successfully here in germany. so make it like you deserve it ( not the monitors) and please tell if you had breed them Smile

i had several cluthes the last two years and this is one of the enclosures where i put my hatchings in. size is 1mx0,5mx0,8m. as you could see, climbable walls and lots of hiding places as it should be !
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Stuart · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject:

Well maybe it would have been nicer for you to share your "expertise" rather than just putting his enclosure down.
Although you have done this now.
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AlbigularisCrazy · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

I agree with Martin though I don't keep tristis. The cage looks good for humans to look at, but the usable space is just not their, not deep enough soil to dig etc.... Sorry

The animals look good though tristis is next on my list sooner or later.

Cheers,
Chad
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ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject:

hi

my main problem is that my english is not so good. so it would take a wile for me to explain anything i would like to tell and that time i don´t have normally. regards martin
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acanthurus
gilleni
tristis orientalis
tristis orientalis red head
panoptes panoptes
caudolineatus
varius
salvator cumingi
Brachylophus fasciatus
Petrosaurus repens

Stuart · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

Jadrow · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:

Thanks for the pics Martin i am now going to line the back with cork to make some ledges for them to climb on and cut the timber into smaller pieces for hides.
There is now more sand in there average depth about 6 to 8".Will post pics when completely done.

cheers pete
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AlbigularisCrazy · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject:

I think another thing Martin would have like'd to say about the photo he posted. Some of the cork in the cage is hollow, allowing tristis to go in to hollow "trees" I believe trisits live in hollow branches in trees in the wild, and love to stick their heads out, and look around through the holes in the hollow branches.

I hope that makes sense. lol

Cheers,
Chad
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ilovemonitor-lizards · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

hi

yes all the cork is full of hollows. also they are able to get behind the bark i put at the walls. that´s normally the way they sleep in the nature, behind the bark of the trees or in hollows. important is, that the diameter is only 2-4cm´s. 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

shay_ · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:29 am Post subject:

these types of cages are commonly referred to as Jerky machines. Reason being is because you have a screen top. That's a no-no in monitor husbandry. If there were classes on monitor husbandry that would be in the beginner class.

If you wonder why it's a no-no, it's because your heat bulb will heat all the air inside the cage as well as all the moisture. And as we all know heat and water vapors rise. Soon you'll have a hot and extremely dry cage and your monitors turn into lizard Jerky. They make great snacks, but I don't think you intend on them being snacks.

Also in the monitor beginning class you'd learn that almost all monitors love to dig burrows, and should be offered no less than 1 foot of soil that will hold burrows.

I'm amazed so many said it looked good.

iriechris · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

theres classes??????????? lol
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