Black-headed Monitor photos

This little one slept like this on and off for a week...now it does not do it at all. It seems like they get their 'favorite' spots sometimes, then decide to move on to somewhere else.
http://www.danielhillreptiles.com/Ne...istissleep.jpg

Here is a growth comparison photo. The scale on the two pictures might be a little off, but I tried..ha ha. They seem to grow pretty quick.
The picture on the left was taken when these guys arrived her at about 20 days old or so. The second is from today. They have been here since August 15th.

http://www.danielhillreptiles.com/Ne...stisgrowth.jpg

Aw! So cute! Love that first picture!

Very cute! I haven't heard of that species before.. are they a dwarf species? They kind of look like ackies and kimberly rocks..

They are known as Black-headed Monitors or Mournful Goannas (varanus tristis tristis). They should get darker heads as they grow and get that 'mournful' look ;)

They are a dwarf species just like ackies and the care is about the same. Adult size is about the same too. However, their habits are a bit different. These are more aboreal monitors so they are slender and quick. They don't tolerate handling as much as ackies, but they are very outgoing when food is involved...ha ha. Great little monitors and quickly becoming one of my favorites.

They still do not compare in size to my Storr's monitors...ha ha...I love the really small monitors.

Here is an adult female storri in my hand....Full grown adult ;) The tristis will be about twice this size. Too be honest....the baby tristis and adult storri are about the same total length (12" or so), yet the difference in the body build of the two is very noticable.....and Blackheaded monitors are all tail ;)
http://danielhillreptiles.com/New%20...)/storri61.jpg

Sweet shots ya got there...
They beauty reptiles...
at least they dont get too big so that their bites don't hurt as much!

Thanks for sharing them pics!

They look great!


BTW how are the storri eggs doing Daniel?

-Jason

So cute :clap:

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Originally Posted by JBallPython

BTW how are the storri eggs doing Daniel?

-Jason

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Day 83 and counting. Monitor eggs are a bit harder than snake eggs, so we will see if I did everything right. Expected hatch was between 65 days and 120 days, so it could be anyday now.

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Day 83 and counting. Monitor eggs are a bit harder than snake eggs, so we will see if I did everything right. Expected hatch was between 65 days and 120 days, so it could be anyday now.

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Good luck with them! It would be great to see many more dwarf monitors in US captive collections.

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Originally Posted by JBallPython

Good luck with them! It would be great to see many more dwarf monitors in US captive collections.

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....or just in my collection :devilish:

Thanks.