She is a Tristis, and has a beautiful nature once she calms down, but she obviously wasn't handled often enough as a hatchling and is still very skitterish.
handling monitors as hatchling can stress and kill them, its best to leave them be.
Tristis are also a skittish/shy monitors, so the more you handle it the less you will see it.
I really wanted a Lace monitor or Perentie, but hubby isn't keen on me having a 6 foot lizard.
He has only just become comfortable with my Blueys, but is wary of my pythons.:lol:
I have named her "Walanja" (Wol-un-yah), which is Aboriginal (Mudburra language) for Goanna.
She shares a 6ft x 4ft enclosure with my Coastal carpet python, (who has interacted with my other lizards since she was a hatchling and definitely has no interest in eating them).
She has settled in well and is enjoying her new home, (I think).
She may be my first, but I will DEFINITELY be expanding my Varanus collection in the near future!