Savannah monitor pic

Trent · 01-20-12, 12:26 PM

Thought I had more pics of this little girl.Have to get the camara out

CK SandBoas · 01-20-12, 12:29 PM

She's beautiful!! I know i won't be able to have one, but i am falling in love with Savs

BarelyBreathing · 01-20-12, 12:34 PM

Just a heads up, you may want to change the bedding. Savannahs need at least 18" of digable sandy soil. Also, it looks like your enclosure is way too small.

infernalis · 01-20-12, 12:58 PM

And if you are sure it's a she, save up some money for a hysterectomy. Once she reaches maturity, she will cycle and make eggs every few months...

Spaying her will prevent all of that from ever happening.

Virtually all female Savs in captivity go through this, and since no one has really figured out exactly what the ideal nesting spot is, they are very prone to egg binding.

Freebody · 01-20-12, 07:40 PM

I still dont know what my sav is, hope i dont have a female lol :P I ran into a person, cant remeber where, but they were from africa and said they had bread them in captivity, he went on to say to breed them in captivity you need like 8- 10 feet of burrow space or they will never do it, he was saying all the nests he had dug up back home were extreamly deep, how true this is i dont know, but makes sence why no average keeper has ever done it, only a very small amount of pros had had success, now im curriuos to how true this info is? anyone shed ight on this? , AND nice Sav! you need to get that girl into a much larger cage asap.

BarelyBreathing · 01-20-12, 09:03 PM

My brother has successfully bred savannah monitors, and I volunteer at a reptile conservation center that has a very strong breeding project. There are more keepers working with captive breeding savannahs. It is difficult, but then again, so are breeding other species of monitor.

beardeds4life · 01-21-12, 11:03 AM

I agree with wayne you need to figure out if she is a female or not and if she is she needs to get spayed unless you want to offer her 12 feet of substrate :P and that cage is much to small

SpOoKy · 01-21-12, 04:29 PM

From what I have heard it is not impossibly hard to bread them, it can be done as BarelyBreathing stated. It is more about the fact that it isn't worth the trouble when you can go pick them up pretty much anywhere for $40.

It is disgusting that an animal that needs such specific requirements can be bought for so little. Hench why there are so many people who get them and can't take care of them when they are priced in the same range as gecko's.

infernalis · 01-22-12, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SpOoKy

From what I have heard it is not impossibly hard to bread them, it can be done as BarelyBreathing stated. It is more about the fact that it isn't worth the trouble when you can go pick them up pretty much anywhere for $40.

It is disgusting that an animal that needs such specific requirements can be bought for so little. Hench why there are so many people who get them and can't take care of them when they are priced in the same range as gecko's.

There is a kid on another forum who just got one as his very first herp.