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[coura]

With all the new monitor related topics I decided to make my own And the title says it all, how are doing lace monitors in US collections? They are my fav monitor, here in Europe they are very few and far between, but in the US if I recall they were doing a bit better. I remenber a few people bred them and from time to time long term captives apeared on kingsnake as well. But in like 3 years or so I havent seen (or detected) any lace monitor related trade or activity. Shure hope they are still present in some numbers even if cb is rare which is understandable considering how dificult it would be to find good homes and care for in the first place for this massive species. But I hope they havent fallen into the territory of the forgotten, which in this hobby means extinction. I mean even mertens and pilbaras that used to be so rare, we see activity related to those now and then. Anyone wants to shed some ligth in this?

 

[EricIvins]

Just like any large Monitor, or Monitor in general, they will die out in the next few years.....

Very few people have the resources to keep them, and even fewer people understand how to get them to reproduce without killing off a Female........

All the animals you see available are Males, or an un-socialized Female once in a blue moon.......Neither of which gets you too far when your trying to get them to reproduce though......

 

[coura]

Yea just what I feared... Probably if we ever get another chance at making a ex-citu population it will be the day Australia allows controlled export of its wildlife...if that ever happens. At least this is a species plentifull in the wild, shure hope the same doesant happen with very limited range species like macraei.
By the way Im curious about what your saying, dont you think at the very least a good handfull of monitor species will be established in our hobby as long as it will last in the future? I would say acanthurus is as comon now as bearded dragons were 10 years ago and Im seeing increasing numbers of many small species that will greatly increase the number of entusiasts not only willing to keep monitors but as well breed them. And in the big ones I seeing great sucess in Europe for example with griseus, now you see baby ones available with some frequence, which is something completly unherd of just a few years ago and this was once a very rare species, if this guys can be brough back any other can.

 

[Blue Crab of PAIN!!!!]

if ANY species of monitor should make it out of Australia and into the U.S. pet trade it should by the short-tailed goanna. Lace and Perenties are certainly spectacular, but they're not what I'd call "highly desirable".

hmm... I'm going to make a thread about that.