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Varanidae

Black-throated Monitor

Varanus albigularis ionidesi

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

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warm end41 °C
cool end27–29 °C
Humidity20–50 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
27–29°Cool side
41°Warm side

A real gradient, 41°C warm against 27–29°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 41 °C / cool 27-29 °C

Humidity

20–50%Target RH

The sheet states20-50 % (Reptiles Magazine); petswithscales : 60-80 %; Dial A Vet : 50-70 %

Enclosure and conditions

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Common questions

Is it dangerous?

Honestly yes. An adult is powerful, with a serious bite, strong claws and a painful tail whip. Not a starter lizard.

How big does it get?

1.5 to 2 metres and heavy. It needs a custom room-sized enclosure, not furniture-sized.

Can it be tamed?

Many become genuinely calm with daily work from a young age, but at this size mistakes are expensive.

How much does it cost to keep?

A lot. Rodents, chicks and insects for a big carnivore, plus a serious electricity bill for heat and light.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 27-29 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 27-29 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 27-29 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — 20-50 % (Reptiles Magazine); petswithscales : 60-80 %; Dial A Vet : 50-70 %
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Others in this group

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What this sheet states

38%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 2 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, its place on the globe, the diet section, the sheet citing where it comes from. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.