Some of my lizards

[Birdfly]

108 days later it seems that at least 3 were fertile (could have been worse on her first clutch)

and another just piping

 

[Birdfly]

I lost one, it slit the egg but never broke through and suffocated

But the first two are out and about.

four more to go, hopefully

 

[Birdfly]

 

[spawn]

Birdfly, I love the monitors! They look so full of life. How big will they get?

I've always wanted to get into monitors, but I don't have the space for one of those 3'-4' adults. Are there any that get to maybe 30 cm - 40 cm or less full grown?

 

[Birdfly]

Thanks, my adults are no more than 44cm, they seem to have stopped growing lengthwise now.

These are Varanus acanthurus brachyurus yellow ridge/spiny tailed monitors, they are reported to reach 70 cm but this is more applicable to Varanus a acanthurus the red ridge/spiny tailed monitor.

Yellows are reported to often stop growing around the 14 to 16 inch mark.

There are a few species of the Odatria (Australian dwarf monitors) that stay under the 40 cm mark.

I have had the last ones hatch out last night and today on coming home from work, here are some more recent photos

This one emerged last night, the 4th one:

This little one is running with the others right now.

This, the last one is getting ready, the 5th, but is out now:

Heres one of the first in close up:

 

[Guest_birdfly_*]

Did i mention she layed another five the day after the first ones hatched?

 

[Birdfly]

:lol: gunna end up over run with these things:

 

[Mantis_Whisper]

:lol: gunna end up over run with these things:

I love the looks on thier faces. Kinda like oh s*** he caught us!

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

Since I live in florida, we have a very large population of anoles lol. I like to catch dozens of the of them and let em crawl all over me! I always let em go though. Actualy just recantly thanks to the over grown poulation of iguanas down here we had a 3 footer living in our back yard! I named him edward pumpcan peach, cause his favorite foods were obviosly the pumpkin leaves and peaches growing in the garden, lol. He also realy loved pooping and swiming in our pool. After a few weeks we got kinda sick of him, so we picked him up and put him into a cage, and drove him of to a far away park with lots of woods and water and let him free. We filmed the whole thing, and ill probably post it soon.

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

Arent moniters very sociol lizards?

 

[pedro92]

Great lizards. Nice pics.

 

[Birdfly]

Cheers guys, yeah some monitors, like these are very social, others are not unless its the breeding season were they can be a little more tolerant

 

[Birdfly]

I was bitten whilst this photo was being taken :lol: have you seen their canines they are almost vampiric.

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

beautiful frilled lizards!do they eat like chameleons or do they bite their prey?

 

[Birdfly]

Hi, The tongue is used exactly the same way as a chameleons but its only a fraction of the length, its basically just to pick prey up from close quarters and transfer it to the jaws were its properly mullered, the picture were its tongue is out is nearly at its maximum

 

[collinchang635]

Cool animals. Always wanted to get a lizard of some sort.

 

[idolomantis]

yeah me too, but i'm hoping to get one these months.

I like the 3rd picture, so like: dammit can't reach that!!!

 

[Birdfly]

Its all go here at the moment, first to pip:

 

[Birdfly]

and the rest shortly followed :

One of the neonates out and basking: