Big Savannah Monitors with little ones?

Question

could i put 2 smaller savannah monitors with one big one who is very tame and not agressive at all i have two adult monitors that got in a fight and i want to separate them but i have no other tanks to put them in the biggest one i have is the one my juvenile monitors are in there about 7-8 inches long and my adult is about 2ft 1 inch would this be ok for a few days until i get payed to buy a new tank

Answer 1

NO NO NO dont do that..your monitor may not be aggressive to you but he will eat the little ones in no time at all Put the little guys in a plastic storage tub..leave them loose in your room but do not put them with your adult.Monitors especially are not community creatures..they live alone and hunt alone..they track and kill anything that they can manage for food..that includes smaller of their kind,In captivity you should not have them sharing once they are about 10 to 12 inches long

Answer 2

nope not unless you want to find out your missing a monitor or two. Its not advised to keep any monitor with another unless they are breeding. You can do it but if you see dominance in one over the other or fighting or whatever you need a cage on backup

Answer 3

you seem clue less in basic monitor husbandry. no matter what you choose to do with your monitors, they will not be "ok". long slow deaths ahead. monitors should never be introduced to others later in life, regardless of size.

p.s. evon stark,the reason why im so successful at keeping monitors is i know better than that. my monitors have proved it . monitors do not hunt alone and live alone.the only people who say that they are solitary are keepers who have very little experience keeping monitors and sure as h**l never bred any species. that's a fact! they ARE social animals in the wild and captivity!!!!!! the fact that the only way to breed monitors in captivity is to raise them up in social groups which then stratify into a pecking order(dominant and subordinate animals) in which animals pairs "bond". try just introducing  male and female monitors that have not been raised together. they will kill each other.not just fight, but kill each other. but males that have been together since hatchlings will barely fight.this is true in the wild as well. male argus monitors in the wild and captivity have been proven to defend there females and nests. and the fact that I HAVE SEEN many different social behaviors in many different species of monitor proves this. keeping and treating monitors as solitary animals is why so many people FAIL at keeping monitors. all their facts are wrong. as far as komodos feeding at a kill, there is a very aparent order in which they feed, biggest to smallest as well as never any fights at a kill, like lions, or wolves, or any other social animal. there feeding is too nice and neet to be just a bunch of non social animals fighting over some scraps.

Answer 4

you could try just watch them

Answer 5

I have always believed that monitors are solitary lizards that do lots of roaming and are territorial, the only time you ever see komodos gathered together is when there eating and its not because they made the kill together its because the others picked up the sent and made there way to the free meal. Monitors do not hunt together they don't roam together and don't live together. Jason i agree with everything else you have said about monitors but you have to email me some info that proves they are social.  

Answer 6

NO! I'd be surprised if the larger monitor didn't eat or kill the smaller ones.

Answer 7

no way............