Well its been a month since i got my first (and quickyl second) monitor and I just thought id update everyone and let yall know its going.

Monet: My water monitor, is doing spectacular. After the first week i had his setup nailed down perfectly, the right amount of substrate in finally lol. His hides are all in order and i even found my own cheap version of a hide. I am in a 3 bedroom townhouse, with one as a main bedroom, one a reptile room and the third is 200% empty (plan for a babies room) well i let all my reptiles run/slither freely in the empty room because the only thing that was in there was a few random supplies. Well one day i was messin around with my fiance and we couldnt find money... well after frantically searching every corner of the room and closet we find him curled up in a paper towel roll... so i grabbed about 4 of them and threw them randomly into his cage. figure 4 extra tight dark hides is somethign he will appreciate while he is this small. He gurged a few times and we chalked it up to a ltitle bit too big of a fuzzy/the dog barking throughout the day. The dogs crate is now farther away (completely opposite ends of the house) and i am feeding him two small pinkies instead of one larger one a day. I have a problem with him not eating bugs... He was eating bugs at LLL when i bought him (like i saw him power down a few supers while i was there) but he has not touched one since the day i brought him home. He thankfully, took to pinkies instantly. He also gets some of the trukey bone meal mush crap, but i got the recipe off of savannahmonitor.org with some recomendations from senior members so i am confident in it. I only give him that when i know i wont be able to get mine for a few days, wether it be work/school/supply, i want him eating every day. He is behaved amazingly. He still will latch on to a finger if you try and pick him up, but he is taking his mice off of tongs 80% of the time, and will crawl into my hand 60% of the time and then does not mine being taken out if he comes into my hand. Thats when he gets to run around the extra room lol.

I cant wait till he starts growing


El Greco: My savannah monitor, is taking off extremely well. Some of you may remember that i totally impulse bought him. He was severly dehydrated, malnourished, and not doing well at all. Well since then he has completely filled out, and might even be a bit fat He has never given me problems and is definitely my favorite reptile i have. He eats a bit of turkey/bonemeal mush every other day and gets 10-15 medium crickets thrown in his tank everyday. They are dusted with d3. As i can tell he eats all of them, maybe leaves 2 or 3 at most, but they are all gone the next day. He gets toilet paper rills as extra hides and has some drift wood/retes hides that he stays in pretty much alot of the time unless he hears the lid open, which is when he comes to investigate. He doesnt mind being handled at all, and sits in my hand and acts completely like a bearded dragon, its pretty funny lol.


They both get soaked on a weekly basis. Monet even gets to swim in my bath tub every 10 days or so lol. We leave a towel in one end in the water that he swims to and hangs out on, then dives right back into the water and swims around and has some fun. Ive grabbed some fish once (3 or 4 goldfish) and put them in the water too and he chased one or two of them down which was really fun to watch.



anyways i love my monitors, they are dong really well and seem to be super healthy. I think i may have to get rid of a few snakes and get one more of them. Maybe an ackie or a tegu