Care sheets

Care sheets based on my own personal experience on how to keep them correctly, incubation, sizes etc. If you want more in depth advice please search the species on google for things like geographical home range however all that is needed to keep them in included in the below care sheets.

please note all the below links take you to embedded PDF files that I produced, so if your device cant see PDF files you will need to download a PDF viewer. QR codes are included so if you print it you can also get others to scan the QR code and send them right to the same document.

Starting with some tips on husbandry here this includes most things you need to know, lighting, humidity, substrate, handling, taming, incubation etc generalised for all monitors MY way. It's not the be all and end all of how to keep a monitor lizard but from my experience it gives you healthier happier monitor perfect for breeding results, and a great pet to admire and enjoy.

Before purchasing a new monitor take into consideration how you will transport it home for this I have created a simple guide to aid in what you need to transport your new monitor home safely and securely with minimum stress, see this document:

TRANSPORTATION OF A MONITOR LIZARD

some help to understand what certain things mean on my site like CBUK, CF etc see this document: Helpful explanations

NEW: Prolific breeding in Varanus species: a little document showing how easy it can be to produce rather a lot of babies.

Ackie monitor (Varanus acanthurus)

Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes horni)

Black throat monitor (Varanus albigularis)

Blue tail monitor (Varanus doreanus)

Blue tree monitor (Varanus macraei)

Crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii)

Cumingi water monitor (Varanus cumingi) sometimes called yellow headed monitor or philippines water monitor

Dumeril’s monitor (Varanus dumerilii)

Freckled monitor (Varanus tristis) sometimes called red-headed or black headed monitors

Green tree monitor (Varanus prasinus)

King's monitor (Varanus kingorum)

Kimberley rock monitor (Varanus glauerti)

Lace monitor (Varanus varius)

Mangrove monitors (Varanus indicus)

Mertens water monitors (Varanus mertensi)

Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus)

Peach throat monitor (Varanus jobiensis)

Pilbara rock monitor (Varanus pilbarensis)

Pygmy mulga monitor (Varanus gilleni)

Quince monitor (Varanus melinus)

Roughneck monitor (Varanus rudicollis)

Storr's monitor (Varanus storri)

Timor monitor (Varanus timorensis)

Tri-coloured monitor (Varanus yuwonoi)

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

White throat monitor (Varanus albigularis albigularis)

Yellow tree monitor (Varanus reisingeri)

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