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a healthy monitor of any species, especially young ones, are not "calm" by any means and def should not act like your tegus. adults tend to take being handled (moving to another encosure...etc) better but still not really "calm". if you posted this on a monitor specific site i'm not sure you would enjoy the responses. i understand that you have a few Iggs and gus but i would not equate that to owning a ornatus. that would be a mistake. a 6ft 20ish lb vegetarian will not be the same as a 6ft 50+ carnivore. he will dwarf both tegus and iggs. i wouldnt handle him until he gets settled in either because that just adds to the stress of being in a new environment. he might be "calm" because he is wayyyyy stressed

again we are not trying to be mean but there are a lot of people who will take "calm" and say its a very sweet and tame lizard where in reality its listless and maybe "im super stressed and its making me sick". this is especially true in monitor lizards

<blockquote data-quote="hoosier" data-source="post: 91909" data-attributes="member: 98">a healthy monitor of any species, especially young ones, are not &quot;calm&quot; by any means and def should not act like your tegus. adults tend to take being handled (moving to another encosure...etc) better but still not really &quot;calm&quot;. if you posted this on a monitor specific site i'm not sure you would enjoy the responses. i understand that you have a few Iggs and gus but i would not equate that to owning a ornatus. that would be a mistake. a 6ft 20ish lb vegetarian will not be the same as a 6ft 50+ carnivore. he will dwarf both tegus and iggs. i wouldnt handle him until he gets settled in either because that just adds to the stress of being in a new environment. he might be &quot;calm&quot; because he is wayyyyy stressed<hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3" />again we are not trying to be mean but there are a lot of people who will take &quot;calm&quot; and say its a very sweet and tame lizard where in reality its listless and maybe &quot;im super stressed and its making me sick&quot;. this is especially true in monitor lizards</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hoosier, post: 91909, member: 98"] a healthy monitor of any species, especially young ones, are not "calm" by any means and def should not act like your tegus. adults tend to take being handled (moving to another encosure...etc) better but still not really "calm". if you posted this on a monitor specific site i'm not sure you would enjoy the responses. i understand that you have a few Iggs and gus but i would not equate that to owning a ornatus. that would be a mistake. a 6ft 20ish lb vegetarian will not be the same as a 6ft 50+ carnivore. he will dwarf both tegus and iggs. i wouldnt handle him until he gets settled in either because that just adds to the stress of being in a new environment. he might be "calm" because he is wayyyyy stressed [hr] again we are not trying to be mean but there are a lot of people who will take "calm" and say its a very sweet and tame lizard where in reality its listless and maybe "im super stressed and its making me sick". this is especially true in monitor lizards[/hr] [/QUOTE]

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