Can i house savannah monitors together

Larger animals can tolerate higher basking temperatures, and there are many reports of basking spots exceeding degrees being utilized by this species. At night, temperatures can safely drop to 75 degrees. If needed, heating pads or ceramic heat emitters may be used to increase nighttime temperatures to acceptable levels. During the day, basking bulbs, ceramic heat emitters, or both should be used to ensure high heat and plenty of bright light.

There are differing opinions as to the necessity of full spectrum lighting for monitor lizards. In theory, because they are eating a wide variety of whole prey items, they should be receiving ample amounts of vitamin D3 and calcium. However, captive reptiles rarely receive a diet anywhere near as varied or nutritious as they would receive in the wild. Additionally, wild savannah monitors do bask for extended periods of time in unfiltered sunlight, so it seems only fitting that they should be exposed to similar conditions in captivity.

In smaller enclosures the use of an independent heat source in conjunction with a traditional fluorescent UV bulb is acceptable. Savannah monitors are natural diggers, both when foraging for food and when constructing burrows. A substrate that allows for this behavior is recommended, as is one that will retain enough humidity to offset dehydration and shedding issues. Mulch type bedding such as orchid bark or cypress mulch are ideal, and aspen products shredded or chipped have proven successful as well.

As an active species, much of what you put into your monitor enclosure will get pushed around and potentially toppled over. A simplistic set-up consisting of a few chunks of heavy wood, some sort of shelter, and a sturdy basking platform will suffice. Ultimately, trial and error will dictate what does and does not work for your animal. Live plants should be avoided, as they tend to die in the extreme heat of a savannah monitor enclosure, not to mention the physical trauma they may endure on behalf of a large, curious lizard.

Artificial vines and plants may be used to beautify the monitor home, but are not required. Despite hailing from an arid environment, savannah monitors do drink water regularly, and will even soak if given a large enough receptacle.

A heavy dish that is unlikely to tip is recommended, as is one that can be easily disinfected if the animal defecates in the water. In the wild, these lizards spend the hottest parts of the day in the refuge of moist burrows. The humidity levels within these "micro habitats" prevents dehydration and helps to ensure healthy skin shedding.

In captivity, little is required as far as maintaining ambient humidity, however, the use of one or more so-called humid-hides is recommended. These are simply standard hide areas cork bark, half-logs, etc that have been stuffed with moist soil or barely wet sphagnum moss. In the wild, savannah monitors are both active hunters and scavengers. Recent studies have shown that the majority of their diet consists of insects roaches, termites, scorpions, millipedes , birds, eggs, other reptiles, and rodents.

Is this true only of babies or can older savannah monitors be kept together as well? Do males fight with only males, or females too?

Any information anyone could give me would be greatly appricated. Find More Posts by Xelas. I know of a person that houses a Savannah with a Black Throat Monitor. One is a male the other a female.

Both do fine together and do not fight. Of course his may just be the exception to the rule. Than again they have not read the rules either. You can keep more than one savannah together If you are willing to devote enough cage space you can do it, but it doesn't detract from the problems I think the main reason you never see savs fight at the average pet store is because they are sick with parasites and have no energy to fight. This is not all pet stores but a good portion of them.

We kept monitors and Rhino Iguanas together but is was room size then another time Niles and Savannah monitors in a garage urned into cage. One can do the same thing with large common iguanas as we found out with one male and multiple females. The sexes among the monitors didn't cause problems as the sexes among the rhinos did! Think about it, parasites and eggs are shed in feces - in the wild, the animal keeps walking and doesn't get overloaded.

In captivity, it can't get away from the feces and the parasites The overcrowding also manifests itself by stressing the animals they would not normally be that close to , or more, other monitors This means that none of them have established territory. Most petstores don't understand the habits of monitors and don't feed them enough The only saving grace there is that the temperatures are usually well below the ideal range, so weight loss is slowed somewhat.

However so far I never saw anyone placing a Tegu with a Monitor in the same environment. Since these two lizards belong to separate biological Orders, I would love to read expert opinions regarding such a combination of habitat, or would that necessitate to build two separate terrariums because the two unrelated lizards may kill each other? Messages I wouldn't risk it.

Tegus and montitors might look similar but are very different. Aggression is a constant issue and tegus often live in a much different enviornment than alot of varanids. It's not worth the risk IMO. Messages 2, That is a simply awful idea. There would be no reason to try it to be honest. You should never mix two different species. But you shouldn't for example mix Argentine and Colombian Tegus. I have heard that some people have kept Argentine and Columbians together, if it is an adult fairly large Columbian and a regular sized adult Argentine I could see there not being a problem.

Messages 1, Are you guys suggesting that there is not one species amongst them all that could share a cage with a Tegu? I'm not well spoken enough in the Genus at large to know every option, but I would have to imagine there is at least one or two that would be a suitable tankmate for a Tegu. While I would discourage a "trial and error" approach, I would encourage you to read up on different Monitors species and see if there are options members here thus far have overlooked.

Whenever we are dealing with living things we should employ caution. But caution doesn't mean not doing things. Actually I have heard of savannah monitors and juvenile black throat monitors being temporarily and successfully being kept with tegus but I would definitely not recommend it. Savannah and black throat monitor like a much higher basking spot than tegus around F. There are no members of the varanus genus that lives in the new world so the enviornments are different.

Are there tropical monitors? There might be a monitor that likes similar enviornments to tegus but none will like the same enviornment simply because of location. If you should house two different species together then they will have to live in the same place in the wild and require the exact same environment. But even if that matches the lizards would probably just get stressed by each other.

They will not enjoy the company so housing them together is only for the humans own amusement.