Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
I don't live in Africa, the OP doesn't either I believe Mechanicsville is in Virgina? Either way the parasites and such from an African population are not going to be the same as a North American one.

I can't speak about other regions but all the Savs near me are captive breed.

I would assume that you also have two fecals a year done as well? (one not being 100% certain there are no parasites.) It is almost certain there are some parasites, this would hold true for most of a wild population.
Again, you think any of the parasites here in America are overly "dangerous" to a large monitor? I doubt it, most of them aren't built to use an animal such as a monitor as a host, let alone withstand the stomach acids that a monitor has. Now if you were taking say, an African species and putting it in Asia, I would worry about water monitor parasites negatively affecting a nile monitor.

I don't have fecals done, there really has never been concern to, look at the nile population in florida and how much it thrives eating all sorts of wild/imported garbage, and they are still fine.