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General Care and Maintenance of Popular Monitors & Tegus (Herpetocultural Library, The)

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a great book for beginners although much of the info is on grassland monitors or wild caught specimins.Someone needs to write a more up to date book on breeding and keeping tree monitors.

I bought this book since there's a distinct lack of literature on tegus and a little less than half the book is on tegus here. I wasn't upset about the small amount of tegu info, I kinda expected it but I KNOW for a fact that some of the information in that book is inaccurate. I can't take anything in it for fact now. I was better off in the forums...

This book has a lot of good information in it but it reads like a science journal. It was also written like 10 years ago so much of it is outdated (particularly in regards to breeding success). It is however a good companion piece to "Monitors and Tegus (Complete Pet Owner's Manual)" by R.D. Bartlett.

This book has a wealth of information within it, and describes every aspect of monitor ownership. And I have seen no greater book written on Savannah monitors in particular. But, if you are interested in obtaining or own a different species of monitor, such as a water or peach-throat, the book doesn't dwell on them too long. Simply a paragraph or two deals with other individual species. Which is OK, but it doesn't discuss all the special requirements of other species, which can be important, in its generalized chapters. Yet, if its savannahs your interested in, which are by far the easiest and most commonly kept, this IS the book for you! Don't miss it!
--Lauren

Did you know that the Argentine Black & White tegus, as you can read in this book, eat a larger variety of food than the Colombian tegus and can hibernate? It is all in this great book on tegus and monitors. Here is another example of this great book: "The Argentine Black and White tegu is the most desirable of all tegus" (p. 142 in Michael Balsai's book on monitors and tegus). Am I glad I found an Argentine tegu at Agama! Please read this book if you like tegus and other big lizards, it is fantastic!