craaaazy idea!

[rudukai13]

And besides, birds (even the small ones like parakeets) are relatively smart animals. Once they see one or two of their friends get eaten by the big scary monster thingy, they'll keep their distance.

 

[Sarah88]

I believe the way the birds would "attack" the lizard would be by dive-bombing it. But if you keep there wings clipped, they lose the ability to fly and thus the ability to dive-bomb. So once one of the birds tries it, it can't get away and ta-dah, problem solved.

you couldn't clip their wings! if you clipped their wings then they wouldn't be able to get away from the monitor at all, especially if it was with wild birds you caught, birds that have had the abillity to fly for awhile and then get their wings clipped are super clumsy until they get used to it and in this period the monitor would eat them, and since sparrows or whatever don't have nice curved beaks to climb with then they would be totally SOL in getting around the enclosure

but to OP i think it would be a cool experiment though to see if it would work, only thing is wild birds tend to carry nasty mites and stuff so i would bathe them in a mild soap solution before i let them anywhere near the animals in my house, and im sure you wold have to periodically replenish their numbers as your monitor picks them off

 

[Mike D]

i think this falls under the category of looking good on paper but not doing so well in an actual setup. think about it. having all of that in the enclosure can only end bad. to much going on and it would pose a huge risk to the monitor if you let them stay in there for long periods of time.

scorps wouldnt be good. dangerous for you and your monitor.


and introducing local wild life wouldnt be a good idea.

 

[logo]

i think this falls under the category of looking good on paper but not doing so well in an actual setup. think about it. having all of that in the enclosure can only end bad. to much going on and it would pose a huge risk to the monitor if you let them stay in there for long periods of time.

scorps wouldnt be good. dangerous for you and your monitor.


and introducing local wild life wouldnt be a good idea.

 

[ceeej31]

while most of the things you posted wouldn't work, i don't see any problems with african cichlids in the pond, crayfish and small crabs would also work

 

[latshki]

if you sealed it up good, you could throw in a bunch of dubia or hissing roaches
and I like the chiclids in the pond idea
I would go with yellow labs so they would dtand out nice and are a dime a dozen

 

[coura]

I think trying to do this would very likely endup in disaster, first I would really forget about scorps BAD IDEA. Turts and snakes as well, turtles carry patogens that are deadly to snakes and lizards, and snakes can introduce desiase and even hurt your monitor. I also dont know what you guys think but I dont think is a "pretty" thing to do, feeding reps to other reps outside the extreme specialists that dont take anything else, but I will leave etics aside. They wouldnt also breed in a rate that your monitor can take advantage of, at least the turts. I think the best possible outcome of your project is if you filled your pond with a few species of tilapia and let them breed, your monitor would have to take its fishy snaks. As a side note dont feed anything to him that you dont know for shure 100% its safe, this guys are tough but they are not unvulnerable to pathogens or poison, if you trully love your lizard stick to a diet of safe food items. By the way you can also breed easily african land snails wich are a very good food.

 

[coura]

if you sealed it up good, you could throw in a bunch of dubia or hissing roaches

And they would eat the monitor alive wille he sleeps like we see from time to time with people that leave crickets in their lizard cages, and before they know half of the lizard´s fingers and tail tip are gone

 

[davo]

Are you talking about like having an entire room for this? I take it the monitor is the main thing in this set up? A nile? You want other animals in there for just a source of food? Or to be in there too. If you have some water and damp vegetated areas you could certainly chuck in some snails in like cuora said. I'm sure you could geckos or some kind too.

 

[coreyweinkoetz]

I already have this setup well sort of mine work's.
west African spur,breaded dragon, Uro,Savannah monitor
well I just sold my monitor to a breeder.
the breaded dagon and tortise have been togethere for 4 years the uro going on two years the monitor was only in there about a year room is about 16'x4' heated with 160 watt mercurey vapors