Savannah monitor in need of care!

[bighog85]

Ya it is hot enough, 132 degrees, but I had to put her up there or she would have just stayed below. I fed her a couple hard boiled eggs when I first got her and then she ate two mice yesterday. I just tried to feed her another one and she wouldn't take it. I just want to beat the previous owner to a bloody pulp, this is why I hate people! What is it that these get sick with?

[allergenic]

Originally Posted by Geckogal

my leos got even though they dont need uvb, when they get parasites it messes with their calcium absobsion but i dont know if the same applies to savs,

Monitors are the polar opposite from leos in terms of husbandry.

Originally Posted by Geckogal

I have my sav in a glass tank for now till he gets a bit bigger,

Glass tanks are horrifically bad for monitors.

Originally Posted by infernalis

Fill a bathtub so you have just enough WARM (Not hot) water that the monitor can still stand up without swimming, they like water.

They don't take in water through soaking. For a sick monitor, handling it and putting it in the bath is going to stress out the animal, which is going to add to the problem, not relieve it. As I said above, 90% of health problems can be solved by correcting husbandry errors. Putting the monitor on soil, feeding it a proper diet, stopping any handling, making the enclosure humid, and providing a number of lower wattage basking bulbs with no use of screen to let humidity escape will all cause a turnaround in the monitor's health.

Water should be made available inside the enclosure, however, which a dehydrated animal will gravitate toward (and this animal is dehydrated).

Originally Posted by infernalis

I would go see a qualified vet ASAP and have the lizard checked out.

Again, that's going to stress the animal out tremendously, and you're going to get conflicting husbandry advice from vets, as they don't keep monitors and are likely reading the same outdated caresheets as most people on the Internet. Correcting husbandry errors is where the solution is going to lie.

Originally Posted by bighog85

I fed her a couple hard boiled eggs when I first got her and then she ate two mice yesterday.

This diet needs to be corrected. Savannah Monitors are primarily insectivores and as that monitor is already plump and dehydrated, switching to primarily insects is going to help. Mice have too high a fat content for this monitor.

Just a side question, is that a sore on the side of the animal?

[Geckogal]

Originally Posted by allergenic

Glass tanks are horrifically bad for monitors.

Why are glass tanks bad? My monitor is stil a baby?

[bighog85]

No I do not think they are sores. I think the guy that had her before me would put like mice or rats in with her and they got a hold of her a few times. They appear to be healing.