Croc monitor

[Patrick Long]

What are your temps?

[BallPython17]

What are your temps?

105.8 f on hot spot and 88 f on cool side.

[Patrick Long]

I would bump that Hot side up a little. Seems a little cool.

Try and shoot for ~115f


What kind of enclosure is he in?

[m00kfu]

105.8 f on hot spot and 88 f on cool side.

Not sure how much it helps, but I do know ProExotics recomends a hotspot of 140 or so for ackies.

[BallPython17]

I would bump that Hot side up a little. Seems a little cool.

Try and shoot for ~115f


What kind of enclosure is he in?

Well right now he's in quarantine, so I have him in a 55 gal, tank. And he has ticks so I dont want to throw him outside in my huge cage.

[BallPython17]

Not sure how much it helps, but I do know ProExotics recomends a hotspot of 140 or so for ackies.

Dam, thats hot.

[Patrick Long]

Not sure how much it helps, but I do know ProExotics recomends a hotspot of 140 or so for ackies.

If I remember correctly the Crocs are kept just a tad cooler than the ackies, with a much lower night temp as well.


If he is 4' a 55 gallon even for QT is CRAZY small.

most baby crocs I have seen are kept in min of 4x4x6 and thats BABY.

[BallPython17]

If I remember correctly the Crocs are kept just a tad cooler than the ackies, with a much lower night temp as well.


If he is 4' a 55 gallon even for QT is CRAZY small.

most baby crocs I have seen are kept in min of 4x4x6 and thats BABY.

I know its not the cage for him. But my big cage outside is wooden and I can't let this tick problem get out of hand. Last time I had a burm outside in a cage like that and he had ticks and mites. And it got out of hand and he died. I can't let that happen again. Everytime theres ticks and/or mites I dont like to put my animals in wooden cages, so the tick/miites dont have a chance to breed.

[Patrick Long]

Proper medication will get rid of the mites and ticks. But you NEED to get him into a bigger enclosure.

55 gallons is NOT very large. He probalby cant even turn around if he is in fact 4'...just sayin.

[djansen]

Dang, was doing some reading on these and WOW! I had no idea they got this big.

Crocodile Monitor lizards have been documented to reach a length of 15 feet, with stories of 19 footers being told by tribesman deep in the heart of the Papua New Guinea jungles. These incredibly beautiful lizards are also known to have the longest tail, longest claws, and longest teeth of any living Monitor Lizard species. Maybe they should be classified as the “Longest Lizard”, while the Komodo Dragon classified as the “Heaviest Lizard”?
Another really interesting fact about a Crocodile Monitor’s teeth is with the exception of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it is the only other reptile to have its top and bottom teeth scissor across each other.

http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/oth...le-monitor.cfm