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Two cents: "Hes to lazy to clean tanks"

Now, why do you have potting soil in their with him? Did you just take the tokays out and toss him in? You need to clean, disnfect and sanitize before a new animal is added into an aquarium. I also agrre that that tank is way to small, the water bowl is also to small. My savannah monitor has a 3 foot long water bowl and they rarely get rain in the wild. That means your animals water bowl should be 55g and then provide him a large land and branch area.

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We can't really help you unless you provide enough information on the monitor. It sadden me that you won't take the effort in providing the information we need in order to help you, especially when the Mangrove Monitor is on my wishlist.
 
The information you provided is useful, but not enough to see any problem areas that might prompt him to eat.

You still need the temperature of the cool end, which is absolutely vital. If it is too hot or too cold, it may not eat. A description of the enclosure might help as well since it may not have the proper size hides for it.

Also the size and age of the monitor would help out more. Sometimes reptiles will go off feeding if the enclosures are too small, sometimes not -- it depend on the herps.

Judging from this picture: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97196&stc=1&d=1180958452 It look too small anyway, the Mangrove need an enclosure's width to be AT LEAST 1.5 the length of the monitor and the length of the enclosure to be 2 or 3 times the length of the monitor.

Maybe you should consider flipping the 55 gallon over seeing it would provide more height than width.
 
Honestly, just watch him...he might well tell you what the problem is. If he basks ALL the time then you might need to raise the temps; if not much maybe they're too high. Mangroves are very nervous monitors, your best bet is to give it a hidespot on the hot & cool ends. Low ones that he can squeeze into. Google "Retes stack" for pix of Frank Retes' hides, they're very good. Actually I think if you check out proexotics.com they have caresheets with pix of their stacks, which are similar to the Retes ones. Definitely try covering the ends of the tank, that might help. Give him some climbing limbs. Once he's secure, if the temps are right he should eat...if he was freshly caught I'd say it's iffy but if he was eating before he should again.

Honestly, a mangrove is a pretty poor monitor if you don't have a lot of monitor experience. If you seriously want to keep a large lizard see if you can trade him for either a blackthroat or whitethroat monitor or an Argentine tegu. Tegu are very tame in general, they don't get unmanageably huge, they're great eaters and they're a little more forgiving re: temps etc.
 
125 gallon community tank
55gallon saltwatter tank
custom cage housing a 2.5 foot redtail boa
custom cage housing 2 green iguana's and 1 chinese water dragon
next is a new saltwater tank 150 gallons or more
 
Ok first of all hun, you need to get a bigger and more importantly WIDER tank, the poor thing cant turn around properly in there. Im not having a go, Im just saying, you then should invest in a much bigger bowl, or how about sealing part of the 'enclosure' off, so he can have a larger area to swim. He definately needs a hide in the warm and cool area.. tbh I think your enclosure is way to narrow.. if I was housed in something like that and never got the chance to come out of it.. I would probably stop eating too. Once you've done this for him, if you leave him alone for abit, he should start feeding, providing temperature and humidity etc is correct. Hope this helps :)
 
large_cichlids;900171; said:
how big do tegus get.
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About as big as your monitor. Pending what kind up to 5 ft-6ft and usually at least 3ft.

Stick with the species you have and stop filtering through lizards. Or get rid of it and take the time to decide on the right lizard for your rather than buy..buy.. buy..
 
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