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Saw lots in Thailand....scared the junk out of me a couple times when they would explode out from under your feet in the long grass.

Lizards DON'T belong in water IMHO...but I'm from AZ so what do I know?

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sad fact is that they are reproducing and spreading,just like the snakes futher south and neither will evr be removed completly now.and unreported fact is that ther is a breading population of cobra in Maini

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Yeah. I have watched the explosion of non native species in Florida. Pretty sad.

Cobras...they taste good!

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How about a dead chicken with large treble hooks embedded inside. Use shark line hooked to a stake.

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Will a lizard that eats chicken taste like chicken?

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Originally Posted by savageak
.and unreported fact is that ther is a breading population of cobra in Maini


Where is Maini?


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I figured that by now this thread would have morphed into what would be best to shoot'im with. Use enough gun? how much is enough? how much is too much? Or would a certain scent like predator urine spread around deter it? I don't think they make a Havahart trap that big so maybe it's gun time.

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I think the answer is obvious, myself...



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Originally Posted by T LEE
Been trying for two days to get a shot at the bastard, he has decimated my daughters poultry, kills the chickens or ducks and leaves them to rot. She also has a cat missing.

Son-in-Law missed with the shotgun the other day but all he had was #8 so he might have got some in it, damn thing is wicked quick and wary as hell.

Staked out in the Sportage with the binoculars and a .357 lever gun. GRRRRR, I want this thing bad!

So far about $300.00 worth of chickens and ducks gone to waste as well as a lot of eggs.


Here's a video of what a Nile Monitor can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA4HGSn_3LI

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Originally Posted by djs
Here's a video of what a Nile Monitor can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA4HGSn_3LI
I used to have a Savana Monitor that I bought from a pet shop when it was about six inches long, nose to end of tail. By the time I had to find it a new home he had reached about four feet long.

He started on crickets. Them moved up to "pinkies." Then to adult mice. Then to immature rats. By the time he was four feet long, I was feeding him adult rats, and the scene in your vid is very familiar to me.

PS I knew a guy who had converted several rooms of his home to correctly accommodate his various pet reptiles, and he was happy to take him off my hands when he outgrew the huge tank I was keeping him in, which for him was getting way too small.

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just FYI you were feeding that savannah wrong.....granted it may have not been widely known back when you kept it....

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Originally Posted by rattler
just FYI you were feeding that savannah wrong.....granted it may have not been widely known back when you kept it....
What should he have been fed? He sure did well on his diet.

PS I also gave him raw fish, live crayfish, meat leftovers, etc..

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look at the head of a savannah versus a nile, should ring a bell that something different is going on there....you know those giant snails down your way they are freaking out about? those make up a majority of their diet in the wild.....general thought now is unless you can feed them a diet heavy in large invertebrates and lots of snails to just not keep them.....high diet of read meat leads to fatty liver disease, two lil calcium moving through the gut and a shorter life....

granted they do eat things like small mammals and birds if they come across them in the wild but their range overlaps with the nile and thats what the nile focuses on....the savvies spend most of their time looking for the large invertebrates that permeate the region....


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Interesting. The common wisdom back then was mostly whole rodents.

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most of this has come out in the last 5 years or so widely known anyways.....if yah read scientific papers you knew we werent feeding them anywhere close to their natural diet much earlier....

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one of the many books sitting on my shelves crazy

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Originally Posted by rattler
most of this has come out in the last 5 years or so widely known anyways.....if yah read scientific papers you knew we werent feeding them anywhere close to their natural diet much earlier....
I remember reading somewhere that they eat a lot of snails in the wild, and did provide it with some form time to time. Common practice back then was, in fact, just stick with canned dog food. I didn't like the idea, so I stuck with whole foods like rodents, with the occasional crayfish and some raw fish thrown in for a change.

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also have this one on my shelves which is damn interesting:

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Originally Posted by rattler
also have this one on my shelves which is damn interesting:

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Wasn't that an Australian species?

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