You have some nice looking monitors, but I would like to recommend some serious husbandry changes you need to make. As someone who has successfully kept and bred monitors, here are some helpful hints. The Dumeril's, Mangrove, Clouded(where did you get that), Salvator, and others need to be kept on dirt, leaves, or cypress mulch. It will be very difficult to give them the temperature and humidity requirements that the water and clouded need to survive. If you can provide it in that enclosure, the humidity will destroy your house. Give them some nice, deep substrate so they can behave and live as naturally as they can while in captivity. Think of their natural habitat? Is it a cold floor on reptile carpet combined with an unnatural cagemate? At point, one will attempt to consume the other. They cannot live until adulthood together or much longer. I'm not trying to raze you, I'm trying to inform you of tried and true methods that I have learned from experience and from others when I was new to these animals. If you do not give them substrate to dig in and things to climb on, they will develop unnatural claws and toes. I have a rescue roughneck that was kept in similar conditions as yours by it's previous keeper. Those monitors do not belong together and will stress each other as they grow? What are your plans if you get a six foot water monitor on your hands? Get some stock tanks and build a solid top for the animals and you'll get them off to a good start. If not, they will die prematurely from most likely major organ failure due to dehydration and other complications.
Good luck and let me know what you think.
moe81
Mar 17, 2007 2:28 AM
Hi thanks for ur advise. i will definately take account into everything you said. i've already separated the clouded and the water as it was just temporary before i cud build an enclosure for the water. as for the bedding, it was temporary too, i've posted a new picture of the updated enclosure. humdity is not a question because i'm not in detroit anymore. i'm now in malaysia. and it's pretty(very) humid here. the water and clouded are native to malaysia.so i think the temperature and humidity wouldn't be a issue. the mangrove and dumeril was imported thru a fren. about leaves and mulch, i don't think i can provide them. i would like to tame the monitors and have them live in a not so natural environment. but i do provide them with very good care. as for now, all my monitors are tame and can be handled. the claws can be trimmed when they are older. as i already have plans and cages being built for future in my factory yard. then they'll have the soil bedding. again the temperature and humiditu is not an issue. thanks for ur concern. appreciate them.