Quote Originally Posted by M_MULLINS View Post
I don't but when I get paid next weekend im taking him to a local reptile vet just to make sure everything is okay.
I was going to suggest that.

Ideal conditions for a Savannah monitor to function well would be a basking spot of 130-140 degrees (F) provided by a bank of 3 45 watt halogen floodlights in a cluster to give an even area about 18 inches round for the lizard to lay and soak up the heat.

The average air temperatures in the rest of the cage should be above 75 degrees (F) but not exceeding an average of 90 degrees.

You should be providing at least one burrow in the substrate (like a woodchuck hole) that has a humidity level of close to 90% with your air having a humidity level around 50-70%, providing the lizard with choices, this way it encourages the animal to move around and thermo-regulate.

One word of caution, when they stop feeding it begins to mobilise the fat reserves and this is extremely hard on the animals liver.

When you go to the vet, be sure to request a uric acid level test, once uric acid levels escalate (due to renal malfunction) and gout sets in, life becomes uncomfortable for the lizard and death is the next most likely event.

Depending on how long this poor creature was housed in a chicken wire box the permanent damage may have already occurred.

I do wish you the best, and hope this is not the case.