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my little monitor
so im new member, posted my intro in the new members section and figured it was time to post my monitors intro here now. bought her when she was about 2 months old (as told by the breeder) so shes about 4-6 months now i believe. originally my plan was to fine the komaini, until i researched the monitor species and found out how hard it really is to buy a young black dragon. i was lucky enough to find someone selling a water monitor. he told me this was a nile monitor, but im pretty sure this is ornate water monitor so as me being a first time monitor owner, i figured this would also give me a good chance to get more experienced members input as well... im not entirely sure what the differences are, i do know that she is very skittish when i walk by the cage. she will burrow in the ground section, or run and leap into the water section. i do hold her daily because i feel that you have to make contact with them, and have to let them know your not there to hurt them. when holding she likes to try and get a little flighty, but it lasts 5 seconds then shes just chillin and climbing from hand to hand.
she does not eat from feeder tongs, i think shes still a little to shy, but as soon as i drop the food in and close cage shes in attack mode! Shes currently on crickets, which was another question of when i should start upgading to frozens? when i first got her, (im assuming due to stress in new home) she went 2 days without eating, but soon got over that and now eatin crickets non stop (sadly she made friends with the 2 feeder fish i put in for her)
basically i am a new monitor owner, i am still learning the breed. but am very determined to give her everything she needs, my only problem is finding right information from the numerous sites claiming to give the best info. so with that said if i forgot to mention anything lol i got some vids of her swimming, eating, and some pics of her so hopefully it helps with my assumtion of the sub species she is.
Ps - currently have no name for her as i dont know 100 if shes female/male
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