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Exotics Vets are typically useless when dealing with husbandry issues. Often times their advice is detrimental to the animal, or overdosing, sterile conditions, or what have you. If you keep them in set ups with 130F basking areas or higher with ambients no lower than 80F, and minimal...

I own and care for a pair of Macrae Blue trees... as well as breed an assortment of dwarf varanids. Before purchasing any monitor, try contacting monitor owners on monitor specific forums and read past posts written by expert keepers. Be ready to handle some seemingly difficult husbandry...

Great job! Please email the SIM pips to my email [email protected] with temps, substrate, duration, etc. Cheers, John

Hi Jason, Looking good... just hatched tristis on SIM container last weekend. See you at Hamberg? Cheers John

Hey Jason, Nice container, where'd you get that contraption? Cheers John

S.I.M. Egg Containers are here! The S.I.M. stands for Suspension Incubation Method relating to how the eggs are incubated on a grid off the substrate. This prohibits direct contact with a wet substrate and allows approximately 100% gas exchange between the container environment and the egg...

Care to tell us your set up and temperatures? Cannot give advice on feeding if the underlying issue is a husbandry one. In 90% of the case with captive bred reptiles, its usually a miss on temps (too low), humidity, ventilation (too much), etc. Thanks John

I'll be there Sunday.... a bit upset I won't be vending, found out a little late. Will stop by and say hello, Ron! Cheers, John

"How does proper thermoregulation stop the lizard from standing up and burning it's nose on the lamp? I'm not seeing the correlation." Temperatures to both extremes, 150F basking (or higher) and 78F coolest ( or lower) gives your lizard the options to properly thermoregulate. If your...

You guys worry too much. If the lizard was kept properly, burns, disease and all the little things you worry about are nonsense. Proper thermal regulation prohibits burns, as I mentioned above. You don't clean dirt... it cleans itself. Bacteria in the soil will break down wastes... its less...

Dampen 50lb bag of playsand from HD and compress it into the cage. If the Uro begins to burrow, its a sign the animal is accepting the substrate. If its always climbing to get out, it hates it. I bet it begins burrowing right away. You can take one of your flat sones and stick it out of the sand...

I disagree. The cave is a mere decoration, which serves nothing other than esthetic. Deep substrate acts as a insulator against water loss. Its one of the reasons burrowing desert species dig down and stay down. They are conserving their water by retreating to cooler, damp levels. A glass cage...

Uros are burrowing species. Nothing can substitute deep sandy dirt for these lizards. They dig down for many reasons, one is hydration and another is energy retention. The first photos show a plastic bin on a patio- there's no escape to allow proper thermoregulation. A quick fix in mean time...

They're fantastic lizards. I got to see and chase them in Costa Rica- they enjoy a leafy substrate so feel free to add a deep layer of oak to your cage. They'll appreciate it and use it to hunt down crickets.

Illegal? No. Hard to acquire due to logistics and availability? Yes! They are settling in nicely, eating mice, sm rats and finding the super worms I tossed in the substrate. Funny how they pop up periscope their heads and neck from the leaves and dive back under if spooked. Cheers