r/MonitorLizards

So I have one baby glauerti and idk how he got out of his enclosure while I was sleeping, idk where else to search I dismantled all the furniture I have in my room, he is the only reptile I have in my house and I was about to took him to the reptile room, so I place him in a small enclosure just for that day, it’s been almost 42 hours since I saw he wasn’t in the enclosure

His first time outdoors and he did great. Despite him seeing the wavelengths beyond the human eyes for the first time in a long time, he only defecated once and was happy roaming the grass fields, feeling the natural sunlight, and climbing the trees.

I posted on this baby getting lost by FedEx a while ago. Here she is enjoying her life. I named her Poppy.

hi guys! I got my first ackie monitor about a month ago. he’s a yearling, previous owner said he was super sweet. he eats from tongs great and is totally cool with me around his enclosure.

I put my hand in the enclosure to bond with him, show him we’re friends. he climbed on my hand and I thought we were cool. WE WERE NOT COOL. he’s flicking his tongue and looks down at my finger, he latches on. he will not let go for nothing. he drew pretty good blood from it

I got him off about a minute later. he went to his basking spot and was wiggling his tail. of course I left him alone after that. I still tong fed him and everything. I started using gloves but now I have an issue, I’m lowkey scared of him😭 it’s not that the bite hurt badly, it was definitely sore after that but it didn’t really hurt.

now everytime he comes near the glass and I go to interact, I start shaking and get scared of him. he climbs on the gloves and still takes food from me. but I don’t know how to stop being scared of being bitten. It’s inevitable having a monitor but still, it scared me pretty good.

he’ll climb on the gloves and everything but I can tell he wants to bite the fingers of the gloves too. he’ll turn his head and barely open his mouth, then keep walking.

can he sense I’m scared? he’ll come right to me whenever he wants to be handled but I feel like I’m scaring him by shaking😭 I literally start sweating and my handles tremble…

is time the only way to stop being scared? how do I get him to stop biting? is it a rebellious teenager thing?

also to add, I know it’s not serious getting bitten. it’s not even a big deal but I’m still afraid🥲

For context, he hasn’t eaten in about four days. I’ve tried both letting them roam around in his tank and he’s too skittish to tong feed, and I’ve also tried in his food bowl for about the first week. I had him he was eating perfectly fine both crickets they were roaming around and out of a glass bowl now he hasn’t eaten in four days Have Also offer him roaches and super worms in the span of four days and he’s unwilling to eat .
He has humid hide warm hide , cool hide , 135 hot spot , proper arcadia uvb Got him from expo captive bred about 2 weeks

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Rehoming my 1 year old cbb dumerils for personal reasons, I think she would be better off with someone else, comes with everything, she can either come with her 6-2-2 she’s in now or her future 8-3-2 cage. she just had a vet checkup Tuesday with a clean bill of health. Asking 200 will be vetting everyone throughly I care deeply about the animal, located Indianapolis Indiana ( only reason I’m posting here is because fb and Craigslist are full of flippers)

I love me some plants! Unfortunately, in Quills' hot enclosure, they tend to die off fairly quickly (RIP kalanchoe, graptoveria and kangaroo paws 💀) Grevillea coastal gem and a ponytail palm are the two newest experiments to be installed. Other than fountain grass, I haven't found much else that does well in his enclosure - do you guys have any suggestions on plants that do well in the high heat? :)

I was going to buy an Asian Water Monitor, but unfortunately, is no longer available. However, I was offered this Nile Monitor. I know it is a lizard with a demon inside it, and I did some research as well, but I would like to hear from breeders: Is it really that bad? Can I tame him with hard work, since he was a kid, or am I going to have a demon in my house?

(I asked the shopkeeper if it is possible to have an Asian water monitor or a black-throated monitor or a tego and he told me it is possible after two weeks or more)

We pick up his 6x2x2 next weekend! This will be his home for a couple months until the 10x4x4 is done.