help sav

[champz]

i jaz bought a hatchling savannah monitor last 2 days ago.
the problem is i havent seen my sav tongue flick even once and she always gasp for air. she’s maybe around 3 inch.
is that bad?
please help me she’s my first monitor.
please guys....

[Patrick Long]

Temps?

Humidity?

Substrate?

Heat source?

What Kind of Food have you been offereing?

[champz]

may temps are 120 for the basking and hot side 100 to 95 and about 70-85 on
the cool side and the humidity is about 50
the substrate b4 is potting soil.
but i changed it to a newspaper.
i gave him cricket meal worm super worm and roaches. she just stares at them
i use ceramic heater

[Patrick Long]

Well....

If those are in fact your true temps, Try to get your cool side a little warmer. 70 is on the VERY low end. And that hot spot could even get a little hotter.

So with all that heat you are still getting 50% humidity? Kinda hard to believe.

Try misting him down every couple days.

But in all honesty, he is probably a Wild Caught baby...or at best a Captive Hatched Sav....most are.

There could be a number of things wrong from intestinal parasites to who knows what.

Where did you get it from?

[champz]

i jaz bought it from a friend.
she's on a 50 gal breeder tank.

[Patrick Long]

Oh god.....you have a hacthling in a 50 gallon??


Did you just copy those temps off a care sheet?

There is no way 1 Ceramic Heat emitter will give those temps on a tank that big.

[champz]

im from the philippines sir its hot here. the normal temp here is 90

[Patrick Long]

I was thinking last night....

...your ambient temp in The Philipenes is 90....how is your cold side 70????????

[blackcrystal22]

Are you sure it's a hatchling?

[rebeccabecca]

3 inches is really small to be a hatchling as they are normally 4-5 inches at hatch and then it takes a few weeks for the babies to be sent to the destinations through a distributor/breeder. your heats off because there is no way to get a good basking area without a proper spotlight. Are you 100% sure it's a sav??