my nile monitor update.

[Freebody]

hello again yall its been months since i first posted about getting my nile and since i posted the hickup i had a while back.
good news and bad.
good news i hold it all the time,it never bites,but it still hisses and make a bunch of noise from time to time but it is calm and rarely tail whips me, just hisses and then calms down pretty fast once its out of the cage. hes like to wear a harness and walking around my back yard on sunny days and i take it inside take his harness off and he sits on the couch armrest infront of the window and sleeps under the sun light shining on it.
Bad news is i cant keep it any longer,the smell he makes sometimes i cant even describe how bad it is,its like pure amonia from a bottle. it almost make me gage and my eyes litteraly water i have to air out my house in the middle of the night and do a full clean then i wake up and its done it again and have to reclean it the following morning which makes me thing its intensional, and im getting sinus ifections again becuase of this smell becuase i have had lots of sinus surgies and titanium plate n stuff drilled in my skull together from an attack i went through a bunch of years ago,that have made me supseptible to complications with it all and makes me very very sick with sinus infection rather easy,so now its makeing me sick all the time again,so now i dont have a choice in the matter, all the agression, size and all the facts i can deal with and overcome with proper care, but i cant do anything about this. i never read anything about nile makeing this scent and doing this and i did alot of reasearch before getting it and way way more now that im trying to figure out how to stop this, or if it something im feeding it or somthing im doing wrong but nothing works.im doing everything right it seems,it smells worse than a dead skunk you see hit by a car on the side of the road.like pure rotten urine or somthing really bad like that :( very upset about this.its perfectly healthy growing well agression is pretty low and getting better and better sits and chills under his heat lamp right beside me almost all day and does its thing,its got his hide holes, its active i read about diets and hes eating good healthy food yada yada tank set up is good good humidity heat is good got his hot spot his pool... but he does this anyways, but wtf is this smell he makes is so bad, i clean his tank wash everything scub it all down at least once a week sometime 2 times a week spot clear any mess it makes, then he takes a pee and poo mixture and its rancid,phoned different exotic vets and they say to check just what i have stated, im doing it all right.... now people come to my house and they are like wtf is that smell omg ill wait outside ...for days its not that bad i spot clean his mess and things are good then ill be watching tv and Wam this smell hits me and the cage is Rancid again which it wasnt just minutes earlier, i live with my folks and they say they have had enouph, the smell has awoken them in the middle of the night and they wake me up to clean it at 3 in the morning and air the house out, 2 times this has happend,once it did it shortly after i went back to sleep and had to clean it again in the morning. its an amonia type of smell.
maybe this will help the next guy who is planning on getting one because i can garantee you you wont read this in any book or write up about nile monitors and if you did can you post where i can read it plz so maybe i can fix it and keep it becuase i really dont want to sell it if i can make it stop this, i say it becuase i dont know the sex it is yet. Plz help or just know this could happen to you. :(

[infernalis]

Welcome to the world of monitor poop.

I can suggest only one thing, get a fan, run some dryer vent hose to a window and blow the air from the cage out the window.

[Freebody]

so this is normal,damn you dont read of that dirty secret.
Its not every poop that does it liek its been a few days since his last bomb her let go and i have cleaned a few messes in the cage, i took the fish out of his diet becuase i noticed he would try his best not to eat the fish in the variety pack of meats i feed it, and "oscar" wont eat the feeder fish i put in its pond the day i brought it home, these feeder fish i got swiming in his water are a few months old now.i take them out replace the water with tank cleaning and put them back in. not sure if oscar has not made one of the bombs since hes been taken off the fish, its been about a week and a bit since a bomb has occured,but could be about the same amount of time since hes had fish,so maybe he was having a problem with the fish? hmm hope thats it.
i was thinking of building a insolated cage out side before i re home it but at this point my folks are Pissed to say the least and i just lost my job so cant afford to build another cage or move back out at the moment, this cage cost me $1000 to build myself just in materials and i cant use a dryer vent i got no windows near his cage so i would need to run like 60+ feet of tube up and around the ceiling to upstair to a window + it would need to go through doors to get there so that would not work either. the area i live in is really bad,their way to much crime here.my neigboor was just home invaded and tied up with her kids across the street at the park playing a few months back, shes put her house up for sale since then and almost every house on my block has been robbed or had stuff stolen from the back yards since jan alone, no way can i leave a window open with a tube hanging out on the ground floor around here or i would do that. it not a good situation i got brewing here but like i said maybe it was the fish in his diet that was doing it , i guess we will see real soon.i got my fingers crossed becuase hes really cool and his personality is getting better and better.

[infernalis]

The nastiest ever. Chomper took a deuce right down the front of me while I was holding him.

All I could do not to puke.

[infernalis]

Idea!!!!!

Take some pure clay cat litter, mix in some baking soda, and use as substrate on one end of the enclosure.

Resist getting anything with "odour control" it has chemicals in it.

Just pure clay kitty litter and baking soda, both harmless.

[Freebody]

already did but no cat litter, i use some of my aspen wood shavings dosed in banking soda at the front of the cage :P i can go out and get some non scented cat littler if you think it would work better, all i have i scented cat litter i can always get some if it dont work use it for my feret> he stinks as well, i use banking soda in his cage to kill the smell works good 2.

[Freebody]

hehe my monitor did the same thing to me the day i tried to take those pics to show you guys down my side i think you can see some wetness in the pic :P

[infernalis]

I think the clay would absorb the urin part better, it's worth a try.

[allergenic]

I don't even have the attention span to get through that unpunctuated mess of a post.