but i had a TOTAL impulse/cuteness buy today. I was getting feeders for my beardies and my chameleons today and some dude brought in a clutch of freshly hatched Sav's and was trying to sell/give ( i mean literally was asking for $2 an animal for the whole lot) and the owner RELUCTANTLY took them. I was tlaking to the guy after and he had the clutch and was used to breeding Sav's and lost his house and had 2 weeks to get out and was unloading his WHOLE collecction. Snakes, monitors chameleons everything, i almost feel bad he said he has about 35+ herps to unload way to quickly. (infact i might pick up a jacksonii and a carpet from him, but onto the story)

I go back into the store and the owner who knows me pretty well asks me if i want a monitor, and after quickyl dismissing the idea in my head and politely saying no, i cant, i just got a water, wtf am i thinking, i felt myself saying "well idk..." and the owner who knows me pretty well and understood my internal struggle, got me with the, I know that if i put them out there some mom is going to come in and buy one for her kid thinking its like a beardie and then they are up a creek
so ten minutes later i was walking out of the store with a baby Sav that i paid $3 for lol. I know it was a total impulse/bad buy, but i do at least know what im in for and have been done a bunch of monitor research already i think ill be ok.

I have him in a 3 1/2x16x16 with a 110-115* elevated basking spot, 83-87* ambients (hes in a different corner of my room than my water and doesnt get as much cool air) and ~40% humididty. Hes on 50/50 mix of decomposed granite/virgin topsoil mix and has about 4-6" of burrowing depth. I didnt know about how big of a water dish for these guys so his is only about 2" deep. Hes eating medium-large dusted crickets and seems to be pretty chill. Oh and hes about 6" long. While i will admit i pry havent done enugh research, i know that i will within the next day and a half before work/school hits me good agian and i only have enough time for basic interaction with my herps instead of research/play time.

I know, scold me, but damn hes so cute lol

Here is El Greco, me and the fiance tend to name our same species herps after the same things and our other monitor is Monet (her favorite artist) and mine is El Greco, so bam, name time lol