KABIKANO said:Red or yellow?
SnakeCharmr728 said:Ackies are good beginner monitors and are generally pretty easy to tame as they are high energy and very curious. However chasing one around until you catch it isnt going to tame it, it'll give up the fight as James said because its scared or stressed.
Start by tong feeding so they get used to your presense.... Tong feed and get them used to your hands by leaving your hands in the cage slowly getting closer and closer.... you can also put some food in your hand and see if they come up to you. Theres steps with taming monitors, tong feed - get them used to your hands- then see if they will allow you to touch them while they remain in the enclosure, THEN they are may choose to run and greet you when you open their enclosure, some will run up your arm... it just takes time and you have to build a bond. Just grabbing them isnt going to work... Especially for babies.
Also be sure that you have at least 18inches of substrate, the more the better and despite their small size they will use it!
frost said:there is a really good video on youtube about someone taming some kind of tree monitor(cant remember what it was) it was along process but seemed to work. basically he began tieing a mouse on top of the enclosure and had little to no interaction with it untill the monitor was trusting enough for him to try feeding with extra long tongs. he eventually was able to use shorter tongs and feed with his hand and let the monitor come after him for the food. he would use one hand with the food and the other he would try to lure the monitor on so it would be resting on his hand. seemed like a good trust building technique. it tried it with a tree monitor that i had a while ago and it seemed to work for me. in theory it should work with an ackie
KABIKANO said:That mdfmonitor guy shows this same process with many different monitors to include Ackies. Great videos!