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Originally Posted by Peterturtle
I'M IN THE same predicament,other than the fact that I am married.is yours a hatchling? It is common for hatchlings to have a slim chance of survival, considering the fact that a small percentage of hatchlings survive out of each batch. If this is the case, then, buy one no younger than a juvenile. The hatchling I currently bought, is behaving the same way, along with similar appearance. I got the best advice from, the eastbay vivarium in berkely, c.a. I recommend you Google them and get the same advice as I did, as far as 100 on warm side and 80 on cool side, along with proper humidity. Besides the advice they gave me, I have been force feeding,crickets dust with multivitamin and calcium powder, holding tail while submerged in water, to exercise it's limbs, and exposing it to uvb lighting. I suggest you call the eastbay vivarium in berkely c.a. to ask before doing anything else though.
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Eric,
Only a small percentage of wild hatchling monitors survive because of predation and hardships. In captivity, the survival rate should be sky high but, due to poor husbandry, it's pitifully low. In the past two seasons I've hatched 15 lace monitors. All are alive and well because the people who bought them did their homework. I've raised many hatchlings, of different species, over the years and have lost very few.