Quote Originally Posted by thebigsquease View Post
I would like to thank you all for your comments.

I was actually looking for someone who works with Rough Necks.
Not posts giving suggestions on cleaning cages, seeking vets, etc.

But thanks anyway. I'll take the suggestion to go to forums with more advanced hobbyists with Monitor Lizards.

In the interm, I did get a phone call from a importer that says that baby Black Rough Necks are almost impossible to keep alive. He stated that most are collected in "rubber tree plantaitons" and when the babies drink the water they are "posioned". That once it happens, there is no saving them. It's slow and 100% fatal.

So with that in mind, I'll no longer buy babies, and look at larger imports.
Maybe that will work better...... who knows..... it's worth a try.....

Also he told me how most "collectors" get their animals.... they pour posion in the water, wait a bit... and then just walk down stream and pick up all the animals.... baby monitors, small lizards, frogs, etc.......

Easy and most recover in no time, to only be dead a month or so later for being posioned.....

So, heads up if you are ever looking to buy WC from INDO. I can't say if it's true or not.... but .... with the percentage of die off's..... one has to wonder...
Sounds like how some SW fish are collected. The divers use cyanide and stun the fish to net them. They slowly die AFTER being exported.