Blue Tail Monitor Escaping the water bowl

This is my Blue Tail Monitor, I just changed out his water dish and he likes to swim in it. This time he was more of less just looking for a way to get into his hide which is behind it.
He is about 16 inches long I believe.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Blue tail monitor
• monitor
• lizard
• swim
• hide
• blue
• blue tail
• enclosure
• pet
• angry
• escape
• water
• bowl

[Vudo865]

Im getting one of these guys soon

and i was just wondering if they're able to be tamed if you get them as babies?

[Grevilavec]

@Vudo865 I got mine as what appeared to be a 3ish month old. The people I got it from didn't hold it at all, they just fed it, said they fed it by hand even.

When I try to hold it, it tries to get away and poops on me.

It won't eat in front of me if it sees me, I've seen it kill a live mouse, leave it there, then go back to it in order to eat it after I had left.

I don't try to hold it anymore. Thus far I find it very skidish and hard to physically handle. :(

[spclizdfuse1]

Hey it's daboogymann from the tegu forums. That's an absolutely beautiful monitor! Where did you find him?

[Grevilavec]

@spclizdfuse1  I got him from Ben Siegel, saw the ad on Kingsnake and call him up for it.

[Vudo865]

@Grevilavec alright thanks