The time has come for another savannah Monitor update
I've now done three videos on her and I realized looking back, looking at the series of monitor videos it went from
I want I got my dream animal to
Do I regret giving this animal?
To just I'm gonna build it in closure now and here we are again. The title is probably not much better
So yeah as over throughout the videos, you can kind of see a- my enthusiasm may be dropping just a little bit throughout
You know, it's been interesting as you know, if you've been watching videos
By far probably the most commonly asked question is how much money have you spent on this animal so far?
well the grand total stands at
Twelve hundred dollars when else can you get with twelve hundred dollars you can get three hundred and eight Starbucks frappuccinos
NRT X 20 80 TI
Or
115 thousand v bucks
My point in mentioning that is not to flex my v bucks. But um just to show that
Animals that you get for 20 bucks off Craigslist or free off the side of the street from some vendor
Oftentimes ends up costing you more than you expected. I was hoping it would cost less than like
I mean at least less than a thousand hopefully like five hundred or less, but I
Underestimated how much money she can consume why has it costed this much money and what else has gone on or what else has happened?
Since the last video well the enclosure kind of fell apart. I don't blame myself or the monitor I blame Home Depot
I'll get to that in a minute
Also, the monitor, she does have parasites as some of you expected Savannah monitors are pretty much always
Imported. So any you see they're just imported from
I forgot where they're from. The Savannah now there's lots of debates on just this in general
But the main reason that I'm bringing it up is because wild caught animals very frequently half parasites
Because parasites are kind of everywhere. They like get in the animals all sorts of ways
So I had to bring her in I got blood work done a fecal and just like a physical where they just like squeezed her
stomach and
And then got the actual medication to get rid of the parasites
I was told that they are a parasite related or similar to hookworm
I don't know why they didn't tell me the actual name but similar to hook worm is what she has
So now I just have to syringe feed her some like liquid and get her to swallow it every a couple of weeks
I filmed that that was an interesting task and actually wasn't as bad as I expected
it only took like ten minutes and you basically just had like anger her so she would open her mouth and I could just
Squeeze it in the back of her throat and we were done
So hopefully the parasites will be all gone soon
Which means that she might actually start growing like a normal monitor because she's a tiny thing
Also, I forgot to mention. I did not buy her directly like wild-caught
like I said
I knew it was gonna be worth but it's been quite a bit and I keep looking in this direction
Because that's where the enclosure is. So, why does the enclosure look horrendous?
Well, pretty much everything's fine. I still have the plant that was in there. I still have the lighting
I still have the thing around it
But now there's a 40 gallon sitting in it with her in it. So technically she's still in the big enclosure
She's just in another enclosure inside that enclosure. So she's in a house and a house in my house. So basically
We started having a bit of a fly problem in the reptile room. They were like little teeny tiny gnat style things on
on lots of enclosures. So we started completely deep cleaning a lot of enclosures
So basically anything with dirt that had flies we ended up deep cleaning and then hey, what do you know?
I check out the monitor enclosure a little closely dig up the dirt and I'm just getting kind of like chills right now
There were just so many flies everywhere. Turns out cool my organic substrate from Home Depot
Was infested with bugs. So the reason I got organic soil it was nature care
organic garden soil topsoil I think which is exactly what people said to get at least to at least get like
organic topsoil which you can get the Home Depot, but
Now I can't because it's it's bugs and it's really grossing me out, it'screeping me out. it all got bagged up
shoved it all and behind my house and now there's just like
lots of soil back there filled with the bugs
But the fly problems gone, that's nice like the toom's all clean now
I don't feel like I'm living in a hoarders home just a pet hoarder. So that's fine
Right, but I have yet to find a solution to what to actually use for substrate
they tend to be burrowing animals and they need a lot of soil for burrowing for humidity and
Ideally for the plants, so if I want to do like all coconut fiber, that'd be a lot of coconut fiber
It's possible that I mean, can we at least at least stick under $2,000? That would be nice
I don't want to have to buy that much so solutions. Tell some at me. I can I could try other soils
The problem is usually when you use like any type of soil people say you should treat it or pretty much anything
which is most easiest doing heat treating so sticking it in the oven but when I have over 800 pounds of soil, it doesn't
Yeah, I can't get it in there
it would take days of just
Shuffling dirt in and out 24/7 to get all that dirt treated and all the bugs killed
So thankfully I didn't spend too much on the soil. I spent maybe
50 to 100 dollars
Which is still a lot of Starbucks now that needs a new solution once that's gone
She was actually staying pretty contained
If you didn't know we had a couple issues keeping her contained at first because my DIY and netting had like a couple issues
But yeah, I'm not even using that anymore and there was a full working top on this the temperatures were good. Everything was fine that
Even the humidity it really liked it took a lot of spraying but I was thinking of installing something like a auto mister anyway
Because it does dry out in the winter pretty quickly. But now that's not even the main problem
It's just the fact I don't have any substrate in there
So she would just be like living in a tin can if I take her out of that sad little 40?
So again, she's back to her favorite little 40. It's temporary. Now. Let's get back to bonnibel and her parasites and stuff
So yeah, basically she grew like not at all. But her appetite was terribly good and
That so we got the blood work done and I tried to get a fecal ready for the vet
But she would not poop
She poops all the time literally just pick her up and she just shoots it all out all over you every single time
but she just
Refused I don't understand
I'm still kind of creeped out by the fact that she just like knew that I needed her poop
This one time such as wasn't gonna give it to me. So then I brought her to the vet. They tried like poking her and
Baiting her again still didn't work. I stayed at the vet for an hour with him
So they're like here take this cup
which I don't have because it's a vet now and they're like put poop in it when she poops I
Gave her two bait-baths a day and handled her twice a day
Just trying to get her to poop for a week and finally after a week. She actually pooped we celebrated
It was amazing rush the poop to the vet right before they closed
And then they got back and the bloodwork before that. They said that she was anemic and it was a sign of parasite
So I was like, okay that makes sense
And then the fecal gave like the actual type of meds that we need to fix it
So she's she's being treated now. And again, hopefully that means that she will be all fixed up
Still kinda annoyed because the vet gave me a bunch of info on how to care for them
Which was completely opposite from everything I've ever been told by any savannah Monitor keeper. So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to oh,
No, what if they're watching this?
I'm gonna have to ignore all of the advice that the vet gave me with care because none of them made any sense
Yeah, I'm literally like the one thing you don't want to do like if you have a human child
It's like go to the doctor get the doctor's advice and then ignore that advice and use advice you find in a Facebook mom group
That is what you want to do with reptiles sometimes. It looks like Savannah Mon or Facebook groups have had more valuable information and unfortunately
licensed to people
so
Enclosure. Yeah
It's it sounded like they were a lot of issues but it's really not that bad. It's just substrate launch
That's good. The new enclosure will be fine. I'm not gonna build another enclosure
Stop telling me to build up four by eight by four. This is
Literally almost identical in square footage that whether she likes it or not is to be determined
She hasn't had much time in it, but I'm sorry. I'm I'm going with this enclosure at least for now
if I'm like really desperate I can get rid of it, but
Or give it to another animal because and then if she gives up just being like a 6-inch lizard forever
Then we could put something else in that enclosure put up a leopard gecko
I mean I could live in it. Literally my bed would fit in this because and then
Her parasites should hopefully be all fixed up and I guess that's about it
I don't like feel the desperate need to like again get rid of her or whatever because it has been definitel-definitely more manageable
Especially once that enclosure was all done
And now that we actually know the root of the source of why she is not growing
So I don't know why she like hates everybody even though it's been a year of almost daily work with her
It trying tons of techniques have like a really run out of techniques at this point
But that's kind of the least of my concerns right now
I just want to get a working enclosure and have a parafight-parasite free child. So that's bonnibel
This was a pretty simple video. Just want to give you an update on that
I would give you an update on the cactus, but it's not good. Oh, this is completely unrelated
But I love how I did a Q&A
where I kind of said that I don't like crested geckos and I was like people are gonna kill me for this and
Everyone was like, oh, it's okay. I mean, you're just expressing your opinion. That's fine
But then what I called a gravy boat a tea pot everybody
Went mentally insane and wanted to kill me. I thought it's a tea pot on the bottom, but it said TEPCO. I can't read
Okay. Thanks for watching. Bye my clothing. Goodbye