Feeding new baby monitor

[Dehlol]

A 40 gallon is acceptable for 3-4 months. You are 100% incorrect and have no business owning a monitor if you feel this is not correct. (See, I can make non-arguments too, I can also do ad hominem but then again so can most primates (its called flinging poo) )

Either point out why I am wrong using some kind of factual evidence or I am done with your nonsense because your wasting my time. I am all open to be corrected with new evidence but your just wasting my time.

A. Fish tank piss poor for a monitor. PERIOD. Every intelligent monitor keeper agrees with this.
B. 40 gallon too small. If your monitor fits in a 40 gallon after 4 months, you've got problems, likely brought on by the bad environment in the tank!

I think we have both said already that UVB isn't necessary, reading the thread may help you out.

I was too busy providing my monitor with a non fish tank enclosure to read every line in this thread.

115F is the low side on the basking AND I only recommend it for smaller monitors, this would typically be when the light turns on in the morning or when you spray the enclosure down with water. I pointed this out multiple times by saying 115F-130F. My rational for this is that if your only feeding inverts there is less heat required in a smaller stomach with less mass to decompose.

Wrongo again, doesn't matter if you don't need as "warm of temps to digest insects". You have to feed more of them to equal the same volume of other prey items,...

He can enclose the tank with plywood because that is what he has to work with until he makes his build, which I'm sure he has already started, if for anything, just to end this thread.

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If you can afford to enclose the tank in plywood,surely he can afford to spend the extra $10 on some sealant and the top/bottom of the plywood enclosed box to make a plywood cage do you not agree? How can you enclose a tank but say you cant use those exact same pieces of wood to make a box- which will be an improvement from the tank...... It's not difficult !

If he was starting from scratch then he could have built the plywood cage from the start and then purchased the monitor (which is ideal).

The majority of those Savs die due to a newspaper substrate, 30 gallon tank, single 150WT bulb, rodent diet/dog food lifestyle OR they are free range in the house. They develop shedding issues which cut off circulation, burns, lack of exercise, MBD from lack of supplementation, and fatty liver syndrome.

I agree about the zoos though, the vast majority of them are clueless, they will throw their monitors on wood chips and have a flood light 6ft from the floor of the enclosure with no elevated basking spots. However I have seen a couple that do it right, in an all glass enclosure.

Majority of savs die due to people thinking they can survive 'until I can afford bigger and better enclosures' and it shortens their lives dramatically due to this mindset.