Ackies!!

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Ackies are called Dwarf monitors. This species stays quite small.

Our Savannah Monitor is only 9 months old and already close to 3 feet long. He devours several big roaches and bunches of rat pups a week.

Ackies are fine with one half the space of a Savannah.

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Our Savannah Monitor is only 9 months old and already close to 3 feet long. He devours several big roaches and bunches of rat pups a week.

Ackies are fine with one half the space of a Savannah.

A buddy of mine, while I was stationed in SD, lived in Imperial Beach, Calif got an iguana and a lizard (I learned later a monitor) both of his boys around 12 years old at the time.
A bunch of our friends at the time would hold lengthy parties or just good old cookouts at his place. The iguana lived in the two car garage, and owned the space.
And the monitor had the run of his (fenced) backyard and we always had to be on our guard when around these herps. You were pretty much own your own if you got to drunk … lol.
We did have a good time tossing grapes to the monitor but other than that … watch your step J