How To Build A Retes Stack, Step By Step
Retes Stacks are a key element in reptile enclosures, providing a comfortable environment for your pet. Learn how to build one in our comprehensive guide.
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Ackie Monitors Food & Diet Guide
Ackie monitors are versatile feeders, consuming a variety of live insects and occasional treats like eggs or small rodents.
Ackie Monitor Care – Information, Enclosure, Diet & Health
Ackie monitors are fascinating lizards that require a spacious enclosure, a carnivorous diet of insects and small rodents, and proper temperature, lighting, and humidity levels to thrive and stay healthy.
Retes Stacks for Reptiles: What are they and how to build one
How to construct a Retes stack, a multi-tiered basking unit for monitor lizards. Create temperature gradients and secure hiding spots using angled plywood layers. Improve your reptile’s habitat with this widely used enclosure feature.
Monitor Lizard Care Tips
Caring for a monitor lizard is no easy feat as these animals require daily attention and specific environmental conditions in order to thrive and be happy. If you own a Savannah monitor or any big lizard, you need to make sure that they have daily access to food, water and entertainment, that their environment is clean and has adequate sources of light and heat, and to carry out health checks… Read More »Monitor Lizard Care Tips
Big Lizard Enrichment: How to entertain your Monitor Lizard
Monitor lizards, on par with tegus, are amongst the most highly intelligent reptiles out there. If you are keeping a big lizard as a pet, you will be amazed by their inquisitive nature, memory and awareness. As smart creatures, though, they tend to get bored easily and it is important for you as a caregiver to provide enough stimuli to keep them intellectually stimulated. This is called “enrichment”, and can… Read More »Big Lizard Enrichment: How to entertain your Monitor Lizard
Can you keep a monitor lizard as a pet?
Monitor lizards are becoming increasingly common as pets and they can make for a great reptile companion under the right circumstances. These creatures are highly intelligent, quite interactive, and can be tamed and even trained. Keeping a monitor lizard is however a huge commitment, both in terms of time and costs, and caring for large, exotic wild animals is definitely not for everyone. Monitor Lizard Pets Many species of monitor… Read More »Can you keep a monitor lizard as a pet?