Male Ornate Nile Monitor For Sale

The ornate nile monitor for sale are occasionally seen in the pet trade but are not typically recommended as pets due to their large size and agility. Regardless of what kind of a pet they make though, ornate nile monitor are popular with large lizard lovers because of their swimming and tree-climbing abilities and sheer beauty.

Behavior and Temperament
ornate nile monitor for sale can thrive in captivity but aren’t always the friendliest as pets. If raised from a very young age and handled regularly, you may be able to trust your monitor a little bit but more often than not they aren’t very tame or trustworthy. These reptiles are strong, can be aggressive, and are large.

From the Little Book of Monitor Lizards in 1995: “There are few of these lizards less suited to life in captivity than the Nile monitor. Buffrenil (1992) considered that, when fighting for its life, a ornate nile monitor for sale was a more dangerous adversary than a crocodile of a similar size. Their care presents particular problems on account of the lizards’ enormous size and lively dispositions. Very few of the people who buy brightly-colored baby Nile Monitors can be aware that, within a couple of years, their purchase will have turned into an enormous, ferocious carnivore, quite capable of breaking the family cat’s neck with a single snap and swallowing it whole.”

Most ornate nile monitor for sale resist attempts to tame them, keeping their aggressive personalities through adulthood. When they are young, Nile monitors will whip their tails if they feel threatened. ornate nile monitor will not hesitate to bite if they are stressed, and given their size, this is not pleasant. These pets are unsuitable for homes with small children, due to the animal’s temperament and size.

Food and Water
ornate nile monitor for sale have voracious appetites. In the wild, they feed on a variety of prey items including fish, eggs, insects, rodents, birds, and even other reptiles such as snakes. As pets, Nile monitors are usually fed insects (like crickets since they are readily accessible from pet stores) when they are young and pre-killed rodents like mice and rats as they get larger.

Wild ornate nile monitor for sale eat live prey items but it is not recommended to feed live mice or rats to a pet Nile monitor due to the risk of the prey biting your lizard. Monitors that have especially large enclosures with numerous hiding spots may be at less of a risk for injuries from their food but the potential for bites is still there.

Gut-loading crickets and dusting them with calcium powder before feeding your ornate nile monitor for sale is vital for a growing reptile but if you are feeding whole mice or rats it is not necessary to add anything to them.

Juvenile ornate nile monitor for sale should be fed daily and adults should be offered food a few times a week. Obesity can be an issue in adults who don’t get enough exercise though so be careful you are not overfeeding your monitor. When considering how much an adult monitor eats in a week (several large rats) you can see how expensive owning a Nile monitor will get.

• Naturally Occurring Out Of Africa Around The Sub-Saharan And Nile River Delta Area
• This Species Is Known To Be Feisty, But They Tame Down Well With Handling
• Living In Hot Arid Areas Near The Nile River 
• With Proper Care These Reptiles Can Live Easily Into 12 – 20 Years In Captivity