help sav

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....

Temps?

Humidity?

Substrate?

Heat source?

What Kind of Food have you been offereing?

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

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?

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

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.

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

I was thinking last night....

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

Are you sure it's a hatchling?

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??