Mini-monitor Mayhem

Hatchling lace monitors are nervous little creatures, so one of the best ways to check up on them without stressing them out is to set up a time-lapse camera in front of their enclosure right before I leave for work and then checking the images when I get home. They're busy little units when I'm not around!

Ever seen time lapse footage of maggots eating a carcass? I almost named this video 'Monitor Maggots'.

For the curious (as I know someone will post this question), the food is frozen mice and small chickens which have been chopped up and then thawed.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Varanus
• varius
• lace
• monitor
• lizard
• eating
• time
• lapse
• goanna

[MilanRotterdam]

COOL VID! Love your Lace Monitors... They are just plain beatifull. And a great track under it, some o'school house for ya there. :D

I just started out keeping monitor lizards, got two 7 wk old yellow ackies. A lace monitor is probably a dream that will never come true for me, not in Holland...

[crocdoc2]

@MilanRotterdam thanks for your comments! The great thing about ackies is that they have all of the attitude and behaviour of larger monitor species in a smaller package that's more easily housed, so don't fret too much about not being able to get lace monitors.

[aw8one]

Do you find that these guys become less secretive as they age at one point do you start handling them?

[crocdoc2]

@aw8one it takes them a fair while before they become less secretive, but I don't handle them at all until they are well past that and actually start approaching me.

[YFZ450Kid09]

where canyou get a lace monitor????

[crocdoc2]

@YFZ450Kid09 wait, are you the kid that keeps a green tree monitor in a mesh enclosure, indoors? I'm guessing you're not quite ready for a lace monitor.

[aw8one]

yfz you do not need another one to add to your crappy cage that has two or three other species

[myzootube16]

wish we had more of these guys in the states

[crocdoc2]

@YFZ450Kid09 Australia.

[crocdoc2]

@jarqu14 day old chickens and mice, chopped up. Mmmmmm...