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Maurice I appreciate you calling out tails but at the same time your husbandry is far from perfect either. While I do appreciate and respect the fact you have bred the species in captivity- neither animals are true "adults" based upon the fact they fit into a 75g enclosure, I know a few people with adults, and there is no prayer of fitting them into a 75g enclosure.
I also disagree highly with your substrate choices, deep dirt is always huge with these guys, and I have noticed a tremendous difference in behavior when mine where switched to deep dirt straight out of my back yard. Monitors love to burrow and dig- no reason to not provide this substrate.
As for the OP- your monitor is biting you and trying to get away in fear- so leave him alone. Stop touching him. He isn't "behaving" he's giving up and playing dead hoping you'll put him away and leave him alone. You are stressing him, which may very well lead to an earlier death of your animal.
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