Yellow Spotted Monitors......

[Deano]

Does anyone in this list keep yellow spotted monitors? You don?t see much going for sale, if anyone has any I would love to see some pics specially the big ones, cheers.

 

[Retic]

Are you referring to panoptes or gouldi generally ? It's a bit of a grey area .

 

[Deano]

Sorry guys, im referring to Panoptes, thanks.

 

[Hickson]

I don't keep them, but photographed this big one at Fogg Dam two years ago.

Hix

 

[Deano]

Nice pic mate, would they be say the 2nd biggest monitor in Australia besides the Perentie or can they get bigger, cheers.

 

[sobrien]

Some places/people say lacies are bigger, others say panoptes. They both get big but generally don't reach the size a perentie can.

 

[Retic]

I would say without hesitation that the Lace monitor is second biggest but it can be fairly close.

 

[Brodie]

Ive seen some huge panoptes before, but I still think lacies get bigger.

Though, panoptes are very strong and keeping them was quite a challenge, im glad I only had the adults a short while!

 

[sobrien]

Oh so you sold them. Did you ever get the Mertens pair?

 

[zulu]

re Yellow

In our neck of the woods deano the keepers i know mainly have got the flavirufous and goulds but i havent seen any panoptes, there must be a few northern keepers at least on this site with some? cheers colin.

 

[hugsta]

Are you referring to panoptes or gouldi generally ? It's a bit of a grey area .

Not really, V panoptes is a yellow spotted monitor and V. gouldi is a sand monitor or a Goulds monitor. Although very similar in appearance panoptes are a much heavier bodied animal.

 

[Retic]

That's not really what I meant, I have often heard gouldi, flavirufus and panoptes all referred to as just sand monitors and some that don't even accept panoptes as a species. That's what I meant by it being a grey area.

 

[Jason]

gouldi flavirufus golden echidna has a baby pair for sale on reptilesdownunder for 900 for the SUSPECTED pair. i enquired but i only wanted one and he wouldnt seperate.

 

[Retic]

I have an adult female lined up for $300 which is a good price. $900 is top dollar for a possible pair and there is no real way to guarantee they are a pair without x-rays.