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Bohan
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Lovely animals, i really like this species.
Regarding diet, at least when its fully recovered from constipation, Insects should form the greatest part of its diet, especially whilst small/young but they still figure in adult diets. Also fish, you can buy/order frozen freshwater fish from good fishing tackle shop/sites, they are collected and sold for pike anglers.
Pinky mice are like candy to kids, They will eat them till the cows come home but they have little nutritional value and are lacking in enough valuable goodness to make them not worth useing unless starting of any small reptile neonates and very occasional treats. You'd be much better off feeding half grown to adult mice (which are very complete even if not the major part of this monitors natural diet]
Seeing parts of a prey insects exoskeleton in feacal matter is quite natural, my water montors plop was full of teeth, hair & feathers i see this in mine all the time and they plop good plops? (not wet or dry but some where in between)
These monitors are quite amphibeous i wonder if a bit of dehydration is not helping with the constipation 
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Martijn
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice animal! Thanks for sharing this.
Good luck with the constipation!
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Sean
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Bohan wrote: | | These monitors are quite amphibeous i wonder if a bit of dehydration is not helping with the constipation |
Nice spenceri Mike glad you joined the club.
Bohan where did you get your idea from that spenceri were "amphibious"
They inhabit open plains with little or no trees sometimes only grass at certain times of the year. They certainly should not be be kept under humid conditions. Mine are kept hot and dry. |
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Bohan
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Got my wires crossed sorry, thinking of Mertens i think  
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dragonbreeder
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Has anyone seen these available in the states yet?
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Terry-rhac.cil
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| how big do these monitors get they are soo cute but im looking for a fairly small not so aggressive species. |
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Sean
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| Terry-rhac.cil wrote: | | how big do these monitors get they are soo cute but im looking for a fairly small not so aggressive species. |
On average about this size but sometimes bigger or smaller plus it depends on the sex. |
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Terry-rhac.cil
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool not too big then. what sex is calmer or are they both fairly aggressive/non aggressive? What size is the enclosure for these guys? and are they arboreal/terrestrial? Its a toss up between a rottwieller and some form of large lizard so im weighing the pros and cons. |
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Sean
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Terry-rhac.cil wrote: | | Cool not too big then. what sex is calmer or are they both fairly aggressive/non aggressive? What size is the enclosure for these guys? and are they arboreal/terrestrial? Its a toss up between a rottwieller and some form of large lizard so im weighing the pros and cons. |
I think aggressive is the wrong term to use, a more better word is defensive which they can be. Either sex it doesn't matter they are generally the same. They are very food orientated and will leap or charge at the sound or sight of food. They are terrestrial but will climb although they are not very good at descending. Enclosure for 1 adult minimum 240x100x100cm but this will depend on the size of the animal.
It's a strange choice between a dog and a monitor if you don't mind me saying so.  |
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SteveL
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Sean thats an amazing animal !
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