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3240 View Profile |
Message To: BTbandit In reference to Message Id: 1719018 Pictures of toki and his cage
I brought up breeding cycles because, in my opinion, it’s the ultimate test of stress. |
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| 04/28/08 03:25pm |
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BTbandit View Profile |
Message To: 3240 In reference to Message Id: 1719032
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| 04/28/08 03:31pm |
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3240 View Profile |
Message To: 3240 In reference to Message Id: 1719045 Pictures of toki and his cage
I’m not in this for your respect or to prove anything. It’s just a hobby that I really enjoy and I try to help if I can. There are folks on this forum, such as Crocdoc, that are true experts. The rest of us are trying our best to share our experiences in an effort to advance the hobby. I’m truly concerned about regulation if this hobby does not start regulating itself. Misinformation hurts all of us. Thanks for the compliment on the monitors. Sorry, Toki, for taking your thread OT. |
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| 04/28/08 03:51pm |
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Sdslancs View Profile |
Message To: 3240 In reference to Message Id: 1719032 Pictures of toki and his cage
Yours was a breath of fresh air! Show-off:p Thanks for the fabulous pictures. Very inspiring! Love them Crocs. |
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| 04/28/08 04:12pm |
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BTbandit View Profile |
Message To: BTbandit In reference to Message Id: 1719069 Pictures of toki and his cage
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| 04/28/08 04:14pm |
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3240 View Profile |
Message To: 3240 In reference to Message Id: 1719105 Pictures of toki and his cage
Peace...I really did not mean to offend. |
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| 04/28/08 04:17pm |
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Lepdford View Profile |
Message To: 3240 In reference to Message Id: 1719032 Pictures of toki and his cage
Great pics! Chris P.S. Save me a lacie |
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| 04/28/08 04:41pm |
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BTbandit View Profile |
Message To: BTbandit In reference to Message Id: 1719147 Pictures of toki and his cage
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| 04/28/08 04:46pm |
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Mdf View Profile |
Message To: Mdf In reference to Message Id: 1719111 Pictures of toki and his cage
3240 Thanks for posting your pics always a pleasure to view them. Mdf |
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| 04/28/08 04:51pm |
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Reptileboy19 View Profile |
Message To: Reptileboy19 In reference to Message Id: 1719156 Pictures of toki and his cage
You should make a post showing how you built that, (for the newcomers like me). All of those cages and the heat and food etc, you must be a millionaire. When I get older and out of university, I want to build something like that for monitors. I love waters,niles,laces,argus,ackies, and the like. I’ve always wanted to buy one of those steel outdoor buildings and make like a mangrove forest or something like that. Sorry for going OT, but your cages are amazing! |
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| 04/28/08 04:53pm |
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Toki99 View Profile |
Message To: Toki99 In reference to Message Id: 1719173 Pictures of toki and his cage
he must be very scared since he spends about 16 hours a day hiding and the other 8 where i am asleep out and about basking and eating. this does not seem like normal monitor behavior to me but i guess its just because hes so stressed. i dont muck with him at all so hpefully all will turn out to be better i worry allot about new animals and dont know if its a bad thing kirk |
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| 04/28/08 06:30pm |
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Sdslancs View Profile |
Message To: Sdslancs In reference to Message Id: 1719359 Pictures of toki and his cage
Join the club, for ’worrying about your monitor’. My baby BT was pretty much nocturnal when I first got him, as he would wake me up scurrying around his cage, but he’s sorted himself out now. Good luck. I think he’ll be fine. |
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| 04/28/08 06:47pm |
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Krusty View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1719386 Pictures of toki and his cage
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| 04/28/08 06:51pm |
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Toki99 View Profile |
Message To: Toki99 In reference to Message Id: 1719394 Pictures of toki and his cage
i was just not used to the nocturnal part when i go to bed my girlfriend is always waking me up telling me what hes doing now since he keeps her up all night. and then ill find him in under one log either by his tail or a claw sticking out. then when i get home from work he is under another or swimming. its pretty fun playing wheres toki when i get home. ill keep everyone posted he has not ate today hopefully tonight or tomorrow im not in a rush i just want to get him fattened up and a bit bigger for his next cage. i love the new experience and new challenges and am glad i have a few people i can call on if i need some written help. thanks again kirk |
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| 04/28/08 09:46pm |
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KAP10CAVY View Profile |
Message To: KAP10CAVY In reference to Message Id: 1719636 Pictures of toki and his cage
Did you add any leaf litter? Listening to it rustle around under the leaves will keep your gal awake even more. Hell, if she can’t sleep, she can wake you up and ummm...... you are over 18 right? hahahaha Oh, toss some night crawlers in the cage, not only will they help clean, but the critter will gobble them up. Scott |
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| 04/28/08 11:45pm |
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Toki99 View Profile |
Message To: Toki99 In reference to Message Id: 1719786 Pictures of toki and his cage
what a great thing to read in the morning im just waiting for the leaves to bloom on the trees then ill be smacking them down with a rack for the cages just none available yet. and don’t you worry i get my share all night lmfao take care kirk |
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| 04/29/08 06:47am |
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: Sidbarvin In reference to Message Id: 1718607 Pictures of toki and his cage
Quote: In my opiniom it’s not the large cages being difficult for small monitors, it’s the small monitors in large cages being difficult for the newer keepers. It makes it tougher for someone with already limited understanding of monitor behavior to monitor the monitor.
Quote: I don’t agree Roger. Trying putting your hatchling Nile in an 8’ cage. You’ll find it’s more difficult to care for. These hatchlings do not use large cages as they much prefer to spend time hiding and eating.
You may be right John as I really wouldn’t know about putting any hatchlings in eight foot cages since I’ve never tried it. When my monitors have reached the two foot mark, I have moved them into eight foot cages or even larger. I simply found it hard to interact with them having so much available space whith which to evade my presence. Since toki has gotten himself the largest species of monitor available on the market it may be to his benefit to do whatever he can to allow his water to become comfortable with his presence. Quote: if your monitor is that stressed there is something wrong. i am not the best keeper by far but none of my monitors have been stressed by moves into new enclosures. they eat just fine, act normal and don’t hide. get everything dialed in and you shouldn’t have a stressed monitor. what has caused so much stress for it in the first place?
BtBandit, this is quite a bold statement. You are either full of crap or very lucky. I would have to ask how many monitors you have actually raised from hatchlings or juveniles to adulthood. I’ve moved a few, yes, only a few, monitors to larger cages where everything was "dialed in" as you say, and all, save one, my larger nile went through a period of stress due to the move. Nothing has ever really seemed to stress him, but I know he is an exception to the rule. You ask what has caused so much stress for it in the first place? Um.... how about being yanked from a habitat it is used to and put in another one it is not? |
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