Varanus becarri

[Dragoon]

here's a pic of my Black Tree Monitor.
The pic doesn't do his color justice. He is very glossy black and the raised scales glitter like diamonds in the light!
His name is Raven.
I'd like to find him a girlfriend someday...

<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/502/596ravenposing.jpg">

[sparkon16]

wow that is a cool monitor, i love these little fellas, they act so cute...got no choice but to love them!! Does he have branches and stuff to climb on?

[sSNAKESs.com]

very cool! :) love those tails!! lol

[Linds]

Very nice! What's his temperament like?

[NiagaraReptiles]

Hey Dragoon,

Have you ever offered your beccari a nice deep layer of leaf litter and/or peat/coconut fibre?
You might find your beccari's behavior rather odd for an "arboreal" monitor ;)

BTW, my Male Red/Yellow Ackie intergrade pictured in my previous post is named Raven too :D I didn't name him, he came to me already named.

[lance]

awsome pic of my favrite monitor
thanks dragoon
i hope to have one day but not holding my breath for it
could you explain your cage set up

[Dragoon]

:eek: That is NOT his cage!!

Sorry, that is a 55 gallon that he was in temporarily. I shouldn't have posted that pic, I guess, I don't want people to think you could house one in an aquarium!!

He is currently in a 3 x 3 x 4 , I just threw it together along with a much larger one for the BRNs, I'm getting to work on the permanent cages in about a week.

These guys need high humidity. He will be housed in a 4 x 4 x 6 high wood and glass cage. He'll have at least a foot of topsoil/sand/vermiculite mix. I don't know, I'll have to play around with the substrate - I know they dig burrows in the ground! Can't wait to set him up right!

The temperament is AWESOME . Very alert and curious, always on display and active during the day. Great monitor. But I hesitate to recommend them to "newbies", these guys are small, but require a LOT of room. It would be cruel to keep him indefinately in a 55 gallon tank.

Thanks for your comments. D.

[lance]

thanks for the advice