Milk for the breeders…

[Steeve B]

OK so your female just laid and she looks dehydrated, first let me explain the basic! Varanids are breeding machines; they will produce eggs after eggs after eggs if you give them a chance. Trouble shooting; why who’d they stop producing? No1; food and minerals no2; environmental stress. That’s it don’t search for anything else.

If you got your monitors to produce viable eggs and she looks like hell, you probably have way to dry environment, try reducing basking and see how she behave after her next clutch. Also give milk to your gravid varanids, I know they don’t drink milk in nature, but this isn’t nature and it will help her with body fat and calcium needed for egg production. Now these are excellent advising it’s up to you to use it or not, I have so for many years and know the benefits.

Well kept females will lay without any detriment, in fact they may look as if they never laid, and this clutch after clutch.
Rgds