Product Description

This book provides essential information on the responible care and breeding of the popular savannah monitor and other monitor species regularly offered in the pet trade including: Dumeril's Monitors, Mangrove Monitors, Nile Monitors, Black Rough-necked Monitors, Crocodile Monitors, Asian Water Monitors, Spiny-tailed Monitors, Timor Monitors, Argus and Gould's Monitors and Tegus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1036356 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 170 pages

Customer Reviews

Decent
This book has a lot of good information in it but it reads like a science journal. It was also written like 10 years ago so much of it is outdated (particularly in regards to breeding success). It is however a good companion piece to "Monitors and Tegus (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)" by R.D. Bartlett.

Great information, but mostly geared toward Savannahs
This book has a wealth of information within it, and describes every aspect of monitor ownership. And I have seen no greater book written on Savannah monitors in particular. But, if you are interested in obtaining or own a different species of monitor, such as a water or peach-throat, the book doesn't dwell on them too long. Simply a paragraph or two deals with other individual species. Which is OK, but it doesn't discuss all the special requirements of other species, which can be important, in its generalized chapters. Yet, if its savannahs your interested in, which are by far the easiest and most commonly kept, this IS the book for you! Don't miss it!
--Lauren

Great section on Argentine B/W tegus!
Did you know that the Argentine Black & White tegus, as you can read in this book, eat a larger variety of food than the Colombian tegus and can hibernate? It is all in this great book on tegus and monitors. Here is another example of this great book: "The Argentine Black and White tegu is the most desirable of all tegus" (p. 142 in Michael Balsai's book on monitors and tegus). Am I glad I found an Argentine tegu at Agama! Please read this book if you like tegus and other big lizards, it is fantastic!