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21-May-08, 12:14 AM
|  | Crab Battle Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 19  | | | Settled on monitors!!! but which one!!!?
Over the last few days i've been planning my next herp and after alot of thinking and sifting through old threads on here i've decided to get a monitor 
i've always wanted one but now i dont know which one out of the 4 on the NSW calss 1 to get!!!
Tristis?
Pygmy Mulga?
Sand Monitor?
or Ackie?
whats the general adult size of a sand monitor???
i know the rest but im not sure weather to get a few small-ish ones or go for a larger species
its hard when you like em all!!! haha
i really need help 
any opinions will be much appreciated
Cheers.
Camo.
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21-May-08, 01:20 AM
| | Crab Battle Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 19 | | | |
bump!
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21-May-08, 01:42 AM
|  | Pure Pwnage. Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Central QLD Age/Gender: 18  | | |
Google is your friend 
Average size 1.4m
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21-May-08, 02:23 PM
| | Crab Battle Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 19 | | |
haha Google knows all, its like god!
but even still i tried and found nothing haha wassnt trying hard enough 
oh and cheers for the size
i wanna hear from people who keep the various species to help me decide
right now im leaning more towards tristis or pygmy mulgas
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21-May-08, 02:25 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Warrawee (Sydney), NSW Age/Gender: 20 | | |
well i'm about to get an ackie. i had the same dilema as you but decided on the ackies as i love their pattern and colour and they get a good size that not to big and not to little  go to youtube and look at some videos, there are some cool ackie/ ridgetail monitor ones.
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21-May-08, 03:27 PM
| | Crab Battle Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 19 | | |
cool thanks!
yeah i almost bought an ackie last year but got a pair of beardies instead.
i love my beardies but it still would have been nice to have one
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11-Jun-08, 08:30 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-08 Location: sunbury, vic Age/Gender: 14 | | | |
i had beardies, they are pretty good. i love it when they nod there heads up and down. i'd go the pygmy's, i recon they are awsome, tristus are nice though.
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11-Jun-08, 08:57 PM
|  | IrRegular Member Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 17 | | | |
I had kept storrs monitors as my first introduction into monitors because of their relatively small size, but then i bought 5 Sandfire W.A ackies and you just cant beat their bright reds, yellows, oranges and black colourations along with the amount of exploring they do in the enclosure. They have huge appetites and will readily take anything. Because of their smallish-medium size you can easily house a small colony in say a 4x2 enclosure but obviously bigger is better. One thing that monitors require is a very hot basking spot ranging from 50-70+ degrees to help with digestion and activity.
Hope it helps.
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11-Jun-08, 08:57 PM
|  | Herpawhat? Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-07 Location: sydney, in Da Ghetto Age/Gender: 26 | | | |
i've just got a pair of ackies.
4 months old now and i love them. They're antics are so funny.
But i would get sandies if i had the room for them.
And i wouldn't bux just one. Always 2 or 3
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11-Jun-08, 09:30 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Newcastle Age/Gender: 25 | | | |
I looked into monitors a little while ago and found it difficult to get much information about captive requirements. I recently got a few books on australian monitors from the library and they were quite good describing sizes etc. I was always a fan of the red sand coloured monitors and I found them quite striking. I too chose beardies because them seemed not to eat as much and required lower temps (that suited me more at the time). Good luck and from what I found out from my research was don't get 1 get 2 or 3 and they like lots of room and high temps and yeah they eat a whole lot.
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