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raptor
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These are still quite young (around 18" overall length) but will attain a total length of around 5'.
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keiron
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| beautiful i remember seeing these at wildlife parks when i visited Australia very nice species one of my favourites |
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Patrik
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| mertensi is a very interesting species, i saw them once at a friends house they are almost like aquatic panoptes. |
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Kat
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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first picture looks like its straight out of jurassic park!
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Sean
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| Yes Patrik that is quite an accurate description they remind me too of aquatic panoptes. Now they are very common in Europe the most readily available of the larger Australian varanids due to the amount of people's breeding success with this species. |
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Rick_Albig
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Stunning animals! Keep up the good work!
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Shawdow
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You've got yourself quite a collection. Beautiful animals.
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Rickeezee
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Great pics nice to see such a varied collection.
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Peter Parrot
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There is a fair bit of footage of this species on a DVD of mine, "Wild Downunder" it`s called. Fantastic swimmers and it is amazing to witness on the DVD how the monitor can "taste" out (rather than sniff out!) a dead fish and locate it from a considerable distance and through water. Great to see.
Best of luck with them. I imagine a group would look stunning in a large naturalistic set up. What set up are these youngsters in?
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big_boids_uk
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Nice setup and lovely monitor, I'm aiming to get one in the near future once i have moved and have a bit more space. 
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