Here is a picture of the largest member of the storri crew that I took tonight I would guess that he is around 7-8 inches long now. The other two are also doing great......growing quick too! These three go through crickets like you would not believe
he looks awesome! great to hear there doing good for you Daniel.
Thanks Marshall....Your red ackie is looking great as well. These storri have been interesting to keep so far. Their behaviors are very interesting to watch. I have noticed that they don't really care for digging deep tunnels very much.....however, they love to tunnel under things. All the documents concerning v. storri that I had read before getting these were right.....the majority of the time, they can be found in the wild in U-shaped tunnels under rocks.....sure enough....they love to do that
thanks! i guess i should post some new pics of him. hes gotten much bigger since i last posted about him.
ive noticed the same thing with my ackie. usually his tunnels are only about 8-10 inches until the "pocket" where he sleeps (hes about a foot and a half), and they're always out from under things (usually the bottom level of the stack) like you said. never out in the open.
have you noticed yours leaving their sleeping/basking/favorite place to take a dump? i have a few theories about what this might be as ive talked to field researches that have noticed the same thing and have told me what they think it might be.
have you noticed yours leaving their sleeping/basking/favorite place to take a dump? i have a few theories about what this might be as ive talked to field researches that have noticed the same thing and have told me what they think it might be.
LOL.....mine always go in the basking spot for some reason. But from the cage cleaning I have done.....no feces in burrows.
when Retes' filthy boards and Retes' claims that varanids mark their territory with feces was brought up it was suggested by one of the researchers a talked to (Sam Sweet to be exact) that the monitors could probably be going near one of their important places (i.e. basking spot) for fear of being caught by a predator if they wondered away from a hiding/basking place.
i noticed this also. when my ackie was in a 20 gallon aquarium with one hiding spot hiding spot other then the stack under the basking light he would always go on the stack. when i moved him into a larger cage with many hiding spots he would always go on the very opposite end of the 5 foot cage.
why? that was also brought up. Sam has seen that a lizards in the wild would wonder from a vital place such as a rock or hollow tree trunk/log to go 15 or so feet away because to a predadator finding the poop = finding the lizard.
i believe them having to bask/sleep 6 inches away from their feces is very stressful for them. you have to consider the ways they would evade a preadator in the wild and "stratigically placing" poops is probably one.
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I would guess that he is around 7-8 inches long now. The other two are also doing great......growing quick too! These three go through crickets like you would not believe 
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