Do you have an ADULT Savannah Monitor?

Use to have a female and well just decided to sell her. There amazing pets though.

Daniel

99.99999999999% of monitors do not make it past their first year.Most people who buy them are kids looking to get a cool pet and you see these tame monitors on youtube (like kaffer2) who claim that these animals get tame like there dogs.I don't know how many times I have seen the water monitor in a pool or a Nile eating out of a dog bowl in someones kitchen.So people buy them and throw them in a fish tank and feed them caned cat food and most die

I have been keeping monitors for 5 years now and I do not own a savanna I do have Nile and a black roughneck monitor the Nile I got back in September he was about 12 inches


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these pictures where taken back in march when he was 36 inches he is now just under 4 feet


greg

I bought a baby a couple months ago.
Pre-meditated.

Get back at me in a couple years and I'll still have him.

One of the BEST questions i have read here so far and one that makes me proud off myself again that I had the willpower to not buy that cute little sav at the last expo...
There are way too many cared to death critters of that species...:(

Nice nile. I had one, lived for 16 years (I got him as a hatchling in '90).

I have a CB ornate, 10 months old and around 4 feet, and a pair of ackies (among other things).

Monitors are the ultimate for those dedicated to them...

Chris

mumps thank you.I would love to see some pictures of you ornate



greg

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Originally Posted by gbassett

mumps thank you.I would love to see some pictures of you ornate



greg

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I need a better camera, all I have now is my Crackberry Storm lol. And for some reason he attacks it whenever he sees it... hahaha.

I'll see what I can do. I've got a guy from work with a nice camera coming to take pics of my hatchling balls, I'll get him to take pics of everything!

Chris

i want to touch :gj: awesome monitor

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Originally Posted by FlowRock

"cared to death"(

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Unfortunately, that's a great quote.

I don't have an Adult Sav, but will eventually, I rescued a sub adult a month or so ago, very agressive due to poor husbandry and being aggrivated by the previous owners. I can now put my hand in the enclosure and up to the side of its head and it doesn't bite, just slaps his head against my hand, just to show he still isn't quite warmed up to the idea, its alot better than the biting stage where he was when I got him. I still pick him up on a regular basis and he gets better and better all the time, hopefully soon I will have a nice adult Sav to show off!