A few photographs of my critters - part 1

[jarich]

Hey Dave, was just looking at your pics of the Bell phase baby that you had on another forum. Can you post pics here for everyone? That is one awesome looking monitor!!

[crocdoc]

I'm not sure which photos you were looking at, but here's one of the Bell's phase I've had. I've raised a few, as I'm after a female. The one in the photo, called Satan, was recently sent it up to a keeper I know in Qld, as he turned out to be a male.


I have another juvenile at the moment, called Bandit, but haven't taken any good photos of it, yet.

[BarelyBreathing]

Beautiful monitor, but I think I like the ”normals” better.

[BeardedDee]

Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing

Beautiful monitor, but I think I like the ”normals” better.

I'm with you there, with regards to darkface, bluey and co.

[mo9e64]

I remember seeing pics you took of Bell's Phase before-they are one of my favorites-gorgeous animals.You had Perenties as well did you not-if so what challenge were they compared to your Lacies ,if i may ask Moe

[crocdoc]

I'm a big fan of the 'normal' lace monitors, too. Bell's phase are unusual looking because of the broad bands of colour and can be quite spectacular, but I like the intricacies of patterning in the normal phase lace monitors.

The place I used to work at had perenties and I helped the keepers in getting them to reproduce. I incubated the eggs at home and then reared the young for a while. Although I was offered a couple of the babies, I turned them down for lack of space. They're an easy enough species to keep and breed, but they need huge amounts of floor space and massive volumes of substrate - you can't go vertical like you can with lace monitors and the females like to burrow into long nest tunnels. Not the sort of monitor you'd want to be keeping indoors.

[jarich]

I think that might be the one I saw pictures of when it was just a baby. You were showing the difference between Bells phase and another kind. It was a pretty spectacular baby! Love them all, such amazingly beautiful animals.

[BarelyBreathing]

Do you have any pictures of perenties for me to drool over?

[crocdoc]

Right, here goes. I have dozens of shots, so this is just a small sample.

First person that says "I want one, where can I get one" gets booted off the forum. Wayne, is that okay with you?

male



pair mating


pair cuddling


gravid female

[crocdoc]

eggs and hatchlings

Same rule as per part 1

[BarelyBreathing]

Ooooooooohhhhhh man!!! I can never see enough of these guys. More please!

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by crocdoc

Right, here goes. I have dozens of shots, so this is just a small sample.

First person that says "I want one, where can I get one" gets booted off the forum. Wayne, is that okay with you?

Yes....

Dare to dream people.

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[jarich]

They are such beautiful lizards. Totally jealous Dave!

[youngster]

I want one where can I get one?

That gravid female has a nice potbelly

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by youngster

I want one where can I get one?

That gravid female has a nice potbelly