what size tank can i keep a savahna monitor

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The point I am trying very hard, as nicely as possible to get across is,
if they are to lazy or not informed enough to do a basic search for the needed information, then how the hell are they going to go to the lenghs to provide for the animal.
To lazy to search, bad situation for the animal.

Most don't. While we give out information, more often than not, the person has already made up their mind that they are going to get the animal and keep it anyway they darn please.

They do it with snakes and the do it with lizards and they do it with varanids.

However, as long we keep in mind that even though we will often not dissuade them from doing the wrong thing for the wrong reasons - that at least we made an effort to try to steer them to do right by the animal.

Again there's a big difference between being brutally direct and saying insulting and abusive things. While I understand the frustration with answering the same questions over and over again, and I understand how difficult it is to see people jump headlong into these things without doing their due diligence, why would a person bother posting at all if all they are going to do is insult and degrade?

For a long time my standard response has been to forcefully direct them to a proper care sheet and have done with it.

Mumps and Slayer patiently answer a good portion of these varanid inquiries. While they can be direct and hard-hitting, they at least point the OP in a place that they can go if they choose to do the right thing.

But attacking some kid, and doing so in an insulting and abusive manner, offers him no option but to go elsewhere with his question and risk getting bad advice or have him do his own research.

Yep - one of the worst things you can do is to blindly tell someone just getting into varanids to go look up husbandry information on the net. Most of the care sheets are utter crap and a lot of the advice concerning diet, substrate, ambient and basking temps is laughable at best, downright dangerous at worst - especially when in comes to exanthematicus.

Heck, I just did a google search and with the exception of one or two sites, most of the care sheets I just opened up were full of utter crap.

So again, while I understand the frustration, I don't understand the point of being nasty just to be nasty.