Savannah Monitor Devours Fish

[AleakimOkibi]

I really want a Savannah monitor for my next lizard. :3 Did you have much trouble taming yours? I haven't really seen you handle it, but they're so much fun to watch anyhow.

[packraptor1]

@AleakimOkibi It usually depends on the reptile, but savs and monitors in particular require a lot of handling and time for them to tame down. but once you've got them tame, they're fantastic pets, though you always have to be ready for a painful bite if the reptile is having a bad day.

[AleakimOkibi]

@packraptor1

Ok thanks. Handling often is no problem (and fun!), I've been bitten (for three hours straight) by a Columbian Tegu, and also tamed that very same tegu recently... :3 I love reptiles, but I've always wanted something bigger. My beardie is constantly worrying me - she loves crawling around the floor but is so small someone it likely to step on her. Not so with a full grown monitor!

[AleakimOkibi]

@AleakimOkibi

Also, speaking of painful bites. Tegu's have teeth that break the skin, bearded dragons don't - what about these guys? I know they have really strong jaws, and heard they were toxic (but not too much for humans to handle) but I have allergies to furred/feathered animals so I'm likely to react if it does manage to break the skin. So, am I more likely to get a broken hand, missing finger, or just bleed some if I get bitten?

[packraptor1]

@AleakimOkibi

The bite of a monitor lizard is far worse than a tegu, since monitors have jagged, sharklike teeth. An adult savannah monitor can remove a finger with a good bite, so you ALWAYS have to be careful around them. Savannah monitors in particular have strong jaws, since they specialize in taking down snails in the wild, so they have to have some tough teeth and jaw strength.

Most likely, you'll just bleed from a bite, but the other two results are still very much possible.

[AleakimOkibi]

@packraptor1

o.o Good to know. XD More incentive to make mine love me as a baby. Also to never approach it with fingers open. Thanks for the help!

[packraptor1]

@AleakimOkibi

No problem! Take good care of it please! Monitors are my favorites!

[AleakimOkibi]

@packraptor1

I won't buy it if I won't take good care of it. :3 I'll come back if I have any more questions!

[DennisS1500]

check out my monitor eating goldfish and crickets video

[DennisS1500]

you should check out my monitor eating goldfish and crickets video :) i just got my monitor yesterday

[Svenska93Draken]

Monitors are so dam cool! I wanna get a Nile or a Spiny-tailed, or just a smaller monitor. :P

[packraptor1]

Nile monitors are definitely NOT a smaller monitor. They easily reach lengths of 8 ft. If you want a smaller monitor, I recommend a savannah monitor (which aren't exactly that small either) or an ackie's monitor. The ackie is pretty small, roughly the same size as a bearded dragon, but still has all of the monitor characteristics and behaviors.

[Svenska93Draken]

Yah, sorry. I confused Nile monitor with someone different, just don't remember the name of it. ^^' But an emerald monitor I would love to have. ;P

[omygodsword]

damn... this makes me miss my pet iguana slowpoke... my mom made me get rid of him

cuz she wanted to get me a dog... she uses some kind of welfare card thing and we just would buy him lettuce... why would she make me

get rid of mah buddha??? i remember the day when my dad won him for me at the county fair... it was a game with the fishbowls where

u have to throw a ball into a bowl and if u got the very middle one you got an iguana... he used to swim in my bathtub like godzilla...

=',( WHHYYY!!!

[ralex321]

It's like... what the heck is this the first time it sees the fish

[dinoboy501]

I would try this butt i think my leopard geckos would choke on it! LOL theyre too small!

[WildSpiritWolf1]

Kool i have a Monitor and a bearded dragon

[omygodsword]

i hope u still give some attention to TSR u should give him a new video he's probably getting jealous and deppressed...

[Reptile125]

disturbed is awesome, i think it would be kooler if the fish were alive and swimming in a little puddle or sumthing

[packraptor1]

They actually were allive. This was filmed seconds after I got them out of a fishbowl and put them in his feeding tank. I guess they just knew what was going to happen to them. lol

You can see them flopping around a bit at :15 and 1:16. They didn't flop much, but they were indeed alive.

[gckbowers411]

You sacrificed your PET fish for a lizard?

[packraptor1]

I was keeping them in a fishbowl until it was feeding time for the monitor. Nah, I don't keep fish.

[zillatamer]

@packraptor1, ive actually gotten my pet beardie to eat live fish from a bowl, would have been really interesting to see that with a savanaah. Do they swim, i know thay can but do they like to?

[SNAKEKIDD18]

@zillatamer no they dont necessarily go "swimming"

[ehopkins12]

@zillatamer mine swims pretty well...they do in the wild to get snails and small fish. I'm actually trying to teach mine to get goldfish out of an aquarium...no luck yet!

[pagoogly]

dude this is awesome. you should do something like this but add raptor noises. thatd be cool.

[symbiote35]

Really cool. My pet turtle does that with his fish too.

[packraptor1]

What kind of turtle do you have?

[symbiote35]

A Red Eared Slider.