Merry Monitormas, its like christmas but now with 79% more monitor. We had a christmas party and I got some people really interested in monitors. They really seemed to take to him and he was fairly curious. We ended up taking a family photo or two during the party. He got to come out and roam the latter 30 mins of said party after a good rinse off (he was caked in dirt and we like to refer to him as burt gummer from the tremors movie) spending most of it watching us in tripod. He seems pretty dismissive of new people unless they have a roach, in which case he will tripod and walk a step or two for one.
He was not harassed for this and its not tight at all. This was just for a cute picture for my selfish reasons and he isnt dressed up like this ever, this was just a once in a blue moon photo op I couldnt pass up because Chantha brought her camera, and afterwards he went back into a burrow. My friend wanted to take more but he was done. She knitted the hat and made the antler like max from the grinch stole christmas.
For a more relatable keeper post he has been closing burrows off lately. Dunno what thats about. His appetite has gone up however and is eating a lot more than he used to but doesnt seem to like crickets much anymore. It is now roaches, crawdads, squid, nightcrawlers, and rats. He did happen to dig up all the plants I placed in :/ well there goes 2 months of trying to grow some sage grass.