Reptile Forum, Reptile Classifieds - CaptiveBred

Bohan · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

No, no photos of before i cut, but i can tell you that this lump or what ever it is? was in exactly the same shape as you see it in the photo (balled up?). It is very solid and was liturally free floating in the cavity.?? Smile

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2.0.0 Varanus glauerti.
1.1.0 Varanus a brachyurus.
1.1.0 Chlamydosaurus kingii.
1.3.4 Lacerta vivipera.

lizard man · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject:

Hey, sorry to hear the news, hope you find out exactly what it was.

Steve

Mike · Contributing Member Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 139

sorry about your lost.
/Mike

Bohan · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:

johne.ev · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject:

Gutted for you mate. i know how you must feel, having lost my female peacock monitor, while on holiday. found her dead in nest box after laying her first clutch of thirteen eggs. good luck finding a new female.

Bohan · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

Thanks mate, Sorry to hear about your loss too..
Im half way there funds wise, just finding one is gunna be hard me thinks but i might be able to find some unrelated blood? Smile

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2.0.0 Varanus glauerti.
1.1.0 Varanus a brachyurus.
1.1.0 Chlamydosaurus kingii.
1.3.4 Lacerta vivipera.

johne.ev · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

yes, i was tempted to buy a young adult male, but didn't because i dont think theirs much chance of finding a female. i suppose you would have to buy hatchlings, but its taking a bit of a chance. how easy/hard are kim's to sex? what about somewhere like Hamm?

arborgoanna · Contributing Member Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 128

How far developed were the eggs? It is not uncommon to hear about female monitors dying from egg yolk peritonitis after suffering some abdominal injury (ie. perhaps hopping from rock to rock, etc.). In the past few years, I recall hearing of at least two, possibly three cases of this in captive female monitors on several varanid fora.

Tough break, from the sounds of it, there is not much you could have done anyways. Thanks for sharing your information and test results with us. Cheers!

Bohan · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:

Hi guys, Ham might be an option, i'll have to look into that. Sexing Kimberlys, like most monitors is tricky but i have read the males may have small spur like scales on the tail base, so might the females but they arnt as prominant? so not much to go on there.
Having nearly, partly reared 3 glauerti i noticed a size difference taking place as they grew. Two of them (males?) started to get ahead of the one i've lost, although they seemed to eat and bask as often as one another this cant be relyed on.
The eggs were very small and to be honest i wasnt really sure what i was looking at but i saw about 6 tiny white things down one side that were between 1 & 3mm across, the vet said It was a female, here are the eggs, they were to small to cause problems i think?

Cheers guys
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2.0.0 Varanus glauerti.
1.1.0 Varanus a brachyurus.
1.1.0 Chlamydosaurus kingii.
1.3.4 Lacerta vivipera.