boscs are pretty cool...
with work you can tame them so they can roam around the house for a bit...just keep an eye on them if you don't want stuff broken!
they are very intelligent reptiles...most monitors are...

 

cool, always liked them when i saw steve (RIP Steve) with them years ago. just wondering wether it will be crule keeping it in captivity,

does anyone know of places where they sell them CB babys.?

 

are you actually in stoke?

 

CB babies are actually pretty rare...most are CF as they are not bred a whole lot in captivity..there are always young ones around in the classifieds as people have problems taming them...just takes patience on both yours and the boscs part..
best person to talk to is Blazey she loves her boscs..:smile:

heres one of mine though to wet your appetite!

 

Savs are the same as boscs.

They make interesting companions, I wouldn't go so far as call them pets because they mostly only "tolerate" some handling - some more so than others. Have you kept any lizards before? Most people would recommend an ackie as a first monitor as they are smaller.

You will need high temps (ambients 75-85 and they bask at 130+). They also eat a lot - a fully grown sav will get through insects like there's no tomorrow - and insects comprises the main part of their diet in the wild with some rodents thrown in (mine gets 2-3 rodents/quail every 2-3 days).

This is the caresheet I tend to recommend Savannah Monitor Care Sheet Information. monitors /uSavannah Monitor Help and Care Savannah Monitor,monitors,care sheets,information on Savannah Monitor Lizards info, Savannah Monitor help.

 

yes im from stoke :lol2: .

i have kept leopard geckos for most of my life, my parents had a blue-tonged skink but it died when i was 7. he was 14 when he died called spike

lol thats a cool pic how old is he/she? where did you get it? where do you think i could buy mine? thx

thats a good care sheet, i also found this one http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/care-sheets/6970-bosc-monitor-care-sheet.html

thanks

 

if your from stoke have you tried discount koi and aquatics. its a good shop, i got my monitor from there.

 

boscs make interesting lizards to keep all though can be quite difficult to tame down ,the mistake people make is they think just because they are babies they will be fine like a beardie to handle its compleatly the other way around when they are babies they can be skittish aggresive little things you need to work on a trust between you both and take it slow

 

no i will have to check there. i saw them in the yellow pages but couldent find a web site.

im 15 so getting to places is difficult and im going austria on friday for a week snowbording holiday yay : victory:

i have been glovers aquatics in fenton. they also do exotics but are no where near experts. most of the animals seem to be a sorry site and to expensive. so i dont realy trust this place. 1 baby bearded had half a tail, dead and alive food (crickets) roaming around and some moldy crickets in the water dish. and i swear it was dead.

i will check discount koi out when i come back :lol2:

 

yeah i'm not keen on fenton. i saw the beardie that looked dead the other day and asked about it, the guy got well shitty. he wouldn't check it tho (knob head). dawn in fenton is alright, she knows her stuff.

 

Im always happy to help if u need advice, im not the most experienced of the bosc keepers on the forums but with my bosc being my first reptile its been pretty much learnt from scratch and my experience so i can give u completely basic advice from my own point of view as a bosc keeper that many dont have as they dont jump head first into reptile keeping and get a bosc lol

 

is that not a bit big for a savy
dan

 

Theres no such thing as too big for a bosc. The more space they have the more likely they are to move around so the bigger the better. Wish i could have something like that for mine. I already feel his 6ft is too small and planning on another and ive only just got that one and he isnt even fully grown yet!

 

what part of austria you going?

i booked 2 weeks in nasfield in easter and can not wait

going to try and do 3 months in switzerland next year :mf_dribble:

 

if your going boarding go to banff in the canadian rockies. it kicks ass!:smile:

my two are rescues. they are only six months old. they were at about 125F (all over the viv!) when i saw em..they were literally cooking. would have been dead by the end of the day so i took em.

have never had a bosc before...looked after argus/timors and emeralds but not boscs...they really are great..but they do take massive vivs and need daily interaction. tough lizards though.

 

is what not to big for a savvy?

Blazey... and im in no way atall in any form what so ever trying to start any form of argument atall whatso ever i promise on my life and treses and all the reps ok..

what bask do u use for your 2?

I just reduced savvies bask as for some reaon the 125 went up to 134 the other day and i didnt feel quite comfortable with it.
its now at 115-120 depending on savvys [thats the name of our bosc by the way...yeh yeh i know] positioning.

oh and i agree... i was gona get savvy a 6Lx3dx3high but the way she struts around our 12x12 living room is so amazing [like its all hers lol] im thinking of going 8x3x4 now...what do u think? this would prolly be a permantent viv for her life [altho who can say] but as always she would continue her bi daily free roams.

 

I just reduced savvies bask as for some reaon the 125 went up to 134 the other day and i didnt feel quite comfortable with it.
its now at 115-120 depending on savvys [thats the name of our bosc by the way...yeh yeh i know] positioning.

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I wouldn't worry about it getting to 134 - mine is always at about 130 (so long as the ambient on the warm side isn't above 90 and they have a cool side ambient of about 80). Many well-known and successful monitor breeders have temps in excess of that - some going up to 160 - but that temp sounds a little scary to me too.

 

the shed thats 10 foot by 8 foot is what they was saying wont be too big

 

ah ok... might be a bit of wasted height and more than enough room but would be cool for sure.

 

Hello eveyone i'd love to get a bosc i think they are wonderful but i don't think my cats would thank me for that, i mean when they get really big would he/she eat my cats

 

I doubt your cat would get eaten unless its a very very small one. The bosc would could bite the cat if the cat annoyed it though. Depending on how tame the bosc was it probably wouldnt bother with the cats. Ours doesnt even look at our cats walking round even when the bosc is out of the viv. Id never leave them in the room unattended with each other though.

 

Thanks for that, i guess if they grow up together then i might just be ok lol but i'd never leave them alone tho never :smile:

 

just had a look at that savannah monitor vid, it looks so cool:no1: .

i used to buy my tropical fish from glovers (but most of them dident last that long maby half a year) brought some of those glass sucker fish. from stapley water gardens they must be 8inches long now and been alive for a good 6 years.

i have been designing the shed. i think the floor will have a higher and lower half with a nice hide under the high floor (if you get me) if you have ever been chester zoo it will be like there bosc vivs. (not shore if there boscs it was a few years ago when i last went)

i think i will buy/uild the viv in the 2 week easter holiday.

should i keep the bosc alone? or would it be big enough for a male and female?

 

good luck sexing a male and female if u do its difficult and its even more difficult apparently to breed. I have two boscs, not been successfully sexed yet and my vet is unable to do it for me. If you hear of anyone who CAN sex them genuinely and accurately, give me a shout as i want mine checked

ps. mine live seperate due to the size differences. When my young one catches up on size i MIGHT try see what they think of eachother but it will be closely monitored just in case their are any negative responses from eachother.

 

just wandering are bosc moniters 3foot from snout to vent?

just found this pic http://www.budgetwebsiteservices.co.uk/Photos/me.JPG its bobby the bosc moniter. he looks bigger than 3 foot. the website says they can grow to 5 to 7 foot:mf_dribble: .

 

They don't normally grow more than about 4ft. Males grow larger than females. Sexing is difficult - probing should only be undertaken by a professional and the probe goes in quite a way with both males and females and is dangerous. Best way to tell is if your monitor everts - males have hemipenes and females hemiclitori. They can look very similar, but the males have cauliflower-like growths on the end (only way I can describe it, sorry ) whereas the hemiclitori are just tubular.
I have seen pics somewhere will see if I can dig them out.

 

neither have my boscs have even shown signs like that im sure they refuse to do it on purpose. I bet when i eventually find out their sexes they'll do it all the time lol

 

Im in stoke as well, im not a huge fan of glovers, though discount koi and aquatics in stoke is actually pritty good, though their live food crap and expensive.

Jay