lizardlady1998
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Hello! I'm hoping someone can provide me with some help with my 3-month-old ackie monitor. I got him (or her, not sure yet) when he was only a few weeks old. After letting him settle into his enclosure for a while, I started trying to tame him. Unfortunately, it feels like everything I'm doing is only making him more afraid of me, and I'm not sure what to do at this point. I've tried tong feeding, sitting silently with my hand in the enclosure without moving, carefully moving things around his enclosure to hopefully get him used to my presence, leaving an old shirt of mine in his enclosure to get him used to my scent, and even just sitting next to his enclosure talking to him, but it seems it only makes him worse around me. I really am not sure what to do at this point because I really don't want to make everything worse. I've been trying my best, and I know that it takes a long time to gain trust, but do things get more rocky before they start to get better with ackies? I've owned other lizards before, but this is my first monitor, and I know that they are very different from other monitors, so anything that anyone could suggest would be very helpful. Thanks ahead of time!
* Meant to say very different from other lizards.
* Meant to say very different from other lizards.