My experiences caring for and breeding Gillens Monitor lizards | Varanus gilleni
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I share my ups and down on breeding gillens monitors!
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love the vid, I hope these monitors become more available in the hobby.
Willem Koenen me too for everyone’s sakes!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Reptiliatus thanks Dion! Love your channel too!
Beaches Scaly Beasts many thanks for your support! ☺️🙏🏼
Can you tell me if these guys are as reliant on humidity and burrowing as ackies? My concern is stuck sheds and loss of toes/tail if I make a mistake.
I’d say more resilient than ackies with less humidity but I do try and offer them a spray down a couple times a week.
Wish I could get them in the usa
Great video mate I'm still very grateful you allowed me to have that one perfect baby for the season! He is such a cool dude and I truly hope you can crack these guys much more consistently!
You were waiting a long time to get one! Glad I could help you out and yeah certainly would love to make them more available.
Thanks so much for this video. I got a male aged 5. He wasn't in the best condition when I first got him 2 years ago. There is little information about them, and I'm glad to see that I was keeping him the right way. He's a healthy and confident monitor these days. Thinking about introducing a female soon!
Was the one you were holding in the video an adult? I know these fellas are small but I wanna know if they are that small
Sure are. That’s one of my breeder males.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts wowie! What a small monitor! Definitely going to be my first monitor lizard (my house is small and can’t hold an ackie)
Currently in contact with a guy who has a 4 month old male, I’m in Canada and there are believed to be only 15 or so in the country right now. Pretty damn excited to pick this guy up!
Wow I bet you’re excited! That’s crazy to think theres not that many there.
I wish Australia would at least reconsider their export laws!
I would love a couple of the tiny monitors!
cant find these guys anywhere in the US/:
Where do u get most of your reptiles from ?
Great video keep up the good work .
Various breeders, keepers etc
I really wanna get me self some monitors but can't for a long while right now focused on my spiders, smaller lizards, amphibians and scorpions
Great video - THANK U
Gilbert 😂
How old were they when they first started to breed?
About 3 years old.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts Awesome, thanks. My suspected pair will be three this summer. So far no eggs, but the 'female' appears to be ovulating or gravid.
@@jbutera6215 that’s great! Fingers crossed you get some eggs out mate.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts Thanks bud. If she drops a clutch I'll let you know.
Glad to see your getting better at the breeding game with the gillens, fingers crossed for the season!!
EJ Holmes haha I think it’s more dumb luck when it comes to them!
@@BeachesScalyBeasts Yeah its never what it you expect :)
How much do you feed them a day?
RCHerps they don’t get fed daily, more like 3/4 times a week during the warmer months. They get a handful of crickets/woodies or a few super worms or a pink mouse or two or hardboiled egg. These tend to be the main feeds but a lot of it is made up of crickets and woodies.
Surprise babies are not the best babies when they are Human babies lmao
Nephillus hahaha that had me in stitches!
Do they have the same personality as a ackie monitor
Similar. Probably a little more shy.
great video and info. I really enjoyed the Beardie in the top right posing for the video
GingerNotANinja thanks!
Can you do one on storrs monitor if you had any experience with them ?
George Urieta unfortunately I’ve never kept them other wise I would!
Gorgeous little lizards and keep on going, you will figure it all out eventually. There are always ups and downs and what a wonderful surprise to see all those babies . l would probably continue to do that just leave the eggs where they are. l am thinking about getting an Ackie monitor l think they are gorgeous, so l might look at getting one from you if l can. l wish to do target training with them myself to see how they do.
Gotta love carpet pythons I’ll keep slogging away! I just hope dad doesn’t take a liking to eggs!
@@BeachesScalyBeasts Thats true.
Hi, what are the gillenis doing now? have you more and or better experience for breeding and incubation?
and how early can you see the sexes of the juveniles? how do you see the differences?
Greetings
They are going good. This year I have the most eggs I’ve had to date yet. Time will tell with incubation this season. I like to give them 6 months to develop and usually go off head shape personally.
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very cool! I wish you every success with the incubation! it would be very interesting to see a video of you how exactly you incubated, what temperatures, etc... and above all, in detail, how you can see the difference between females and males in the juveniles by the shape of their heads!
@@phelsumataggeckos2571 I’ve been meaning to make an update to this video actually so I might put it in motion soon! Thanks again :)
Thinking about getting a trio of these guys if you don’t mind me asking about how many clutches do you get a year from them ?
Tray VT if I’m lucky I get one big clutch. I haven’t had her double clutch yet. Some years she skips breeding as well to keep putting size on. It takes a lot out of these small goannas.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts thanks for the info 🙏🏽
Do you have any experience with Spencer’s monitors
Sam -f I don’t unfortunately. Sorry!
No no , it’s alright I’m just asking around as mine is really tame and I’ve heard at expos that they are “bad tempered “ but I don’t know if mines a one off or the whole thing is a myth
Hey mate are you breeding them this year?
Mckimm trying to!
@@BeachesScalyBeasts any success?
Mckimm a few test burrows so far. No eggs yet.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts if you get eggs how much will they cost?
Mckimm I’ll have to work through my waiting list but they will be $400 each give or take.
What size enclosure would I need for 1 just curious
Wild Life In My Room I think something in the realm of 90/45/60cm should be okay but the more room the merrier.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts ye I want monitors but have barley any room so I would probably try get a 4x2x2ft if I can't then a 3x2x2ft
Do gillian semi hibernate? Gotten mine a week ago, all he does is sleep barely eat.
Yes during winter mine brumate.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts how do they know its winter if the room temperature is always 80 and 145 degree basking spot?
@@iantru9929 my rooms ambient temperature drops naturally during winter. The room isn’t controlled. Sometimes I’ll open the rooms window over night to let ambient heat out during the cooler months.
@@BeachesScalyBeasts so what does it mean for my gillian, i keep my room temperature 80 year round. granted i only had him a week he seem healthy and strong but he just hide in his home all day. i do put the basking light right on top of his hide out so he probably doesnt feel the need to ever move. what do u think?
@@iantru9929 they are naturally shy and will hide away until they are settled and comfortable.
If they don’t have an ambient drop during the winter then it may not brumate.
Hello
Do you suggest get this species to have a lizard as a holdable p
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