Savannah Monitor vs Argentine Tegu - Head To Head 

I bought a baby savvie from a reptile farm when I was a preteen, I didn't know what I was doing and it was a miracle he lived past a year, but I took him outside with me every day, handled him almost constantly, and fed him everything that I could catch. He lived well into my 20s and got absolutely ENORMOUS, and I miss him terribly; by the time he got old he was coming to me for comfort and super calm during even the roughest bouts of handling. He was even used as an educational animal a few times! I would not, however, recommend them to someone who doesn't know what they're getting into.

I agree the tegu wins. It's not that the monitor isn't a great creature but I've heard too many people kill monitors by accident. They are super high maintenance if cared for properly. I cringe when someone I know considers even getting one.

I am surprised you don't mention tegu brumation in any of these videos. I feel like the fact that tegus can potentially sleep for 7 months of the year is pretty important

I can nearly hear GusGus purring when you pet him..;-)....

Great video. Would love to see a basic head to head for beginner species like Ball Pythons vs Corn Snakes and Leopard Geckos vs Crested Geckos. These videos are pretty common but I'd love to get your take on them. In my opinion you guys have the BEST (hands down) reptile videos on RU-vid.

Can you do an in-depth video on Tegu care? Bathroom training, feeding, cage maintenance, etc

I want you to know that after doing my due diligence, watching your videos etc.. I bought a male tegu! he is the trophy of my collection and has made reptile keeping even more rewarding. It truly is a labor of love. I remember when i first wanted to get an iguana, I'm glad I listened to you and changed my mind. Not all iguanas end up like Bryan's Barczyk's rhino iguana "Bella".

Hey Clint could you show where you keep all of your reptiles?

At 1:25 that monitor is just like, "This is my life now..." lol

You should do a reptile room tour or let us meet all your reptiles. Or talk about mites

Love watching GusGus just chill out and enjoy some pats. 😁😍

3:12 What an absolute charm of a lizard. Who would have known they could enjoy being pet.

Me and my mum love to watch your videos, your such a breath of fresh air and so happy! Keep up the excellent education.

Could you make A video on trust exercises with a large lizard?

I really want a tegu someday. Beautiful big lizards! Also just as a tip, making the table top a rough surface is going to help your reptiles feel way more secure in your future vids!

i love your videos clint. you helped me decide what snake is good for me. Youre entertaining and informative, keep up the great work man

this is such a great idea for a series! so excited for more

Love the format for the new vids!

Wooo, a new video~ I found your channel just about a week ago, and I binge-watched all of it's videos pretty quick, so I'm so happy that there's a new one already. Even if I knew a lot of the things you've brought up in your videos already I love to learn more and refresh my memory about things. Besides that your good mood and upbeat personality feel very contagious. Keep up the good work

I just commented yesterday about wanting a tegu video and wake up to this in my recommended videos! Love this channel!

Great work as usual buddy! As a reptile zookeeper I keep reccomending you for your excellent videos! Keep it up.

Excellent video I look forward to every Saturday watching you on my break at work. I was really happy because I was rooting for the Argentine tegu!!!

Clint you are always so enthusiastic!

Hey Clint awesome video love all ur videos!!

i really liked this video, how you handle your tegu is just adorable

WOW, dude, I really liked your video. Very informative! Wish you were around when I was a kid!!

You gotta throw in the Green Iguana to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People go into stores and say oh look at this cute little lizard its only 20 lets get it not knowing what that tiny little lizard is going to become.

You're the best!! Love your videos!

I had never heard of the Tegu before this and I’d only seen the Monitor Lizard on Rescuers Down Under. Great to see both of them! Great video, very informative!:)

Very important video! Thanks😇

Thanks for the vid buddy. You have helped me decide that I want a Tegu, as I was going back and forth between a Savannah and a Tegu. 😊

I wanted this video. thank you! I love my savannah monitor.

Hello mr. Clint, why does your videos looks cool very awesome I love all of your videos cause I do like reptiles too

just found this channel and its awsome

Wow, who said feathered dinos aren't awesome looking? I think they're super cool! Great video, as always! I'd love to see you do one specifically on the BCI!

Great video man

Great info was scared the Savannah monitor part was going to be wrong, but I gotta give it to you awesome video!

Loved this video! I'd love to see more like this!! If you do decide to go ahead on this type of video, I know for myself, I've been stuck between getting a bearded dragon or a blue tongue skink as my next reptile. I think maybe other people may have this struggle as well, because they're both relatively similar in terms of care and handleability. I know beardies are WAY easier to find than skinks, but I think your take on them head to head would be awesome! love your videos!! :)

I held a Sav monitor today at a reptile expo and fell in love. I'm not getting one right now at least but to hold it and have it fall asleep on me was an absolutely awesome experience.

The comparison videos are my favorite

Hi Mr. Clint & Friends, I really love your videos, I love to learn more about reptiles and learn about different species, yours and your team enthusiasm and happiness are contagious. Your videos helped me a lot while I was preparing for my beardie and corn snake (my first reptiles and I love them). As for future videos, it is possible for you and your team to make a video about Chinese Water Dragons?! I'm very interested on getting one, but I'm still wondering if I should or if I'm prepared to get one. Off course, extra knowledge never hurts. Thanks for everything, Carla

I love seeing videos about Tegus!!

Now every time my tegu does a roll I say death roll...you’re the man Bro!

Very cool. thx Brosef.

I love your channel :D

Congratullations for your love to them!

That's funny when the savannah rolled out of your hands!

nice series.

Thank you for this video. I am currently researching several animals before making a choice. I want the experience of having a large lizard. I own many reptiles and other exotic animals and feel confident in my abilities to do this and to acquire all the needed information.

Τhank Clint's 😍

Clint, I missed you! You should upload more often

Great content as always! Thank you! I think I’ll stick to my Leopard Gecko and Crested Gecko for now though.... 😉

Loved this! Can you do a Uromastyx video? Would love to see an Omani but any Uro will do!

Oh lord. This makes me miss my savannah monitor and want both so much 🥺❤️❤️❤️

Love your video. You have alot of passion for the animals. I feed my savannah monitor chicken, boiled or cooked on the bbq. I hand feed it strips. Very agressive at first but getting better.

Thank you for putting the emphasis on Savannahs being for experts only. I've got a big beautiful Savannah myself, and trust me. He's a handful, but I love him so much. If you have the experience to keep them, you couldn't ask for much better of an animal. They're fantastic.

Amazing

Wow.. Amazing animals

I would love to see an Asian Water Monitor in a video!

what an amazing bunch of big lizards!

Clint is the best!!!!!

Awesome video I have a savannah monitor you pretty much nailed it with everything you said about the monitors is always spot-on I enjoy watching your videos keep them coming and that is an awesome savannah monitor must be albino it's cool that you can find morph Gene monitors but they are crazy expensive I wish I could afford them!

Please do a video on boa constrictors!

Both Lizards are Beautifully Awesome, But I really love that Argentine Tegu!

That subtle shot fired at feathered dinosaurs XD

Hey, Cool you named your Savannah Jabba. My first was named Jabba and tamed beautifully with some work. I could hold him and stroke his belly like you could a cat. It was a very unusual experience. He was truly a wonderful.

Great video as always, but Clint you are opening the door to a whole series of awesome head to head comparison videos! Please Please do Burms vs Retics!! Sooo many keepers who are ready to step up to the next level grapple with this choice, including me! After months of research and hundreds of posts in forums and groups i decided on a Burm, i've had him for 6 months now and it feels like the best choice i've ever made (might as well do a spotlight video on burms while you're at it, they may actually be the best pet reptile!)

Are you planning on doing more videos on other monitor species? I would love to see something on giants like the water monitor. :)

I just love seeing the close ups of Gus Gus. I'm trying to do a drawing of him to send to you! I haven't drawn many reptiles, other than Clever Girl from Jurassic Park when I was a kid. But I think he's so beautiful and when I'm done will send a copy!

Giving you more watches!!

Nice video! Only one I have any experience with is the Savanna Monitor. My experience is this: they can be tamed, it just takes a fair bit of work and handling, letting them just get use to your presence and letting them see you’re not a threat (even then, it’s not guaranteed that they’ll calm down). My first one was the definition of a lap lizard, only time he opened his mouth and put them on me was to let me know to move my hand, and even then I didn’t know he did until I looked down.

Great vid. I have a savannah and a tegu.

Savanahs r my passion . I have 4 very intelligent. Your lizards r very beautiful n look very happy . Nice post keep it up. People dnt understand wat it takes 2 take care of n grow big lizards

I had a Savannah monitor in my twenties. Picked him up from a breeder and it cost me around 80.00. I had it for about 4-5 years before I had to choose between it and my wife (Girlfriend at the time). I wasn't happy but I gave it to my wife's sisters boyfriend. It was extremely tame and 4" in length. Feeding time was crazy because of how aggressive it was. a few times a live rat tried jumping out and made it to the top of the enclosure about 2 and a half feet high and it would snatch it from the top of the enclosure and press it into the ground back and forth until he knew it was dead or you would hear the crunch of the skull. pretty awesome and I wouldn't mind getting another if I was aloud!

It would be awesome if you could do a video on a chameleon and maybe a Chinese water dragon in the future. love your videos!

I owned the savannah and tegu and both are absolutely gorgeous reptiles to own, my savannah was puppy dog tame I worked with him everyday, the tegu was brilliant too friendly loved to chill on me I love both these reptiles as pets and I miss my savannah and tegu

Hey, can you do a review on the Giant Day Gecko because I am thinking of getting one and would love to see a video on what it needs and how to take care of it? Thank You, I love your videos

Absoultly love head to head vidios and also ttegu is my absoultly fav lizzard and getting one this week lol frfr can't not wait lol frfr love you Clint thanks plzz do a give away thanks.

Wow Clint, I thought the only Argentina tegu was the Salvator Rufescens, the red one, but I discovered the Salvator Merianae, the one you showed, also occurs in Argentina. Here in Brazil, the only argentina tegu is the red one, and I was almost correcting you before researched😂, very nice content and very nice video

LOVE the rant about dinosaurs and feathers and therapods! xD thats how you know there is more than meets the eye!

The tegu is pretty much the practice lizard for owning large lizards as they are definitely the easiest of the lot to deal with - if you can't manage a tegu then you definitely can't manage the other big lizards.

Hey Clint! Do an ackie vs blue tongue head to head next! I am having a hard time deciding which I want first.

Great video! I'm considering getting a big lizard in the near future as well. I'm stuck between a tegu and a rock iguana. Is there any way you can do a care or head-to-head video on cycluras?

Great video! Can you do a "Blue Tounge Skink vs. Bearded Dragon" video? I have a lot of snakes and I'm looking into my first pet lizard but I want something that's not too small or too big lol hope you can help me out, thank you and have a good day (:

Yessss Clint 👌 getting my argentine tegu this summer :-)

YES!

“U won’t wanna keep it if it wasn’t STINKIN AWESOME”😂😂

Here’s some ideas I had: Corn Snake vs. Ball Python Blue Tongue Skink vs. Bearded Dragon Burmese Python vs. Reticulated Python Leopard Gecko vs. Crested Gecko Leopard Gecko vs. Fat Tail Gecko Rosy Boa vs. Sand Boa Hognose vs. Garner Snake Box Turtle vs. Musk Turtle Panther Chameleon vs. ??? Boa Constrictor vs. ??? Uromastyx vs. Frilled Dragon Russian Tortoise vs. Red Foot Tortoise Tokay Gecko vs. White-Lined Gecko Chinese Water Dragon vs. ???

As far as it goes with Savannah monitor "expensiveness" I built my 8'x4'x4' enclosure for less than $175, the lighting I was actually gifted but costs around $250 and the substrate is about $75 worth of topsoil and a few bags of play sand mixed up and compacted about 20" deep, as far as insect feeders go, rainbow mealworms sells 1,000 giant super worms for $30 shipping and all, all in all I have a third of the cost of a tegu and a light fixture in a Savannah monitor and he's growing just fine

I have had my sav for almost three years, I love her so much, if I had to pick a favorite out of all my animals, it would be her That being said, I'm picking up a tegu this weekend lol

Clint is the best

I had a Savanna years ago! He was awesome!! Same size as the one you had on this video. His name was Murray. I had a large aquarium for him, but ended up just letting him roam my bedroom...😅 needless to say, my sisters, of which I shared my bedroom with, did not approve! I fed Him baby rats, wet cat food with vitamins. He was way too big for bugs. I bred the rats myself. I had chicken for a late night snack one night and Murry laid straight up my side for the warm.( He was VERY VERY tame!) His head was right at my armpit/shoulder area...I felt his tongue flicker my chin and it proceeded to quicken. I KNEW what was coming, I also knew if I moved, he would strike. He was about 6 inches smaller at the time. Needless to say, I moved he attacked. All I could do was lay there and contemplate how I was going to get him off my face. Hahaha.i wasn't scared, did not jump or freak out. I pinched his jaw line and after a few tries he released. I BLED A LITTLE AND THANK GOODNESS IT WASN'T A TEAR or WORSE. It then, AFTER the fact, it felt like I was hit with a baseball bat in the between my jaw and chin. No bruises. Just a bunch of little dot marks from his teeth... I washed my face and then we went to sleep. Lol. Being aware of having a food scent on you from most animals, (especially rodents) He was truly a beautiful and tame, cool buddy I had for 4 or 5 years. He was about 6 to8 inches when i bought him. I had to move to another state and could not take him with, so I have him to a friend who raised many reptiles and LOVED HIM! You did a wonderful job at explaining these reptiles!!!!!!❤ One thing I would like to add is that he NEEDED A LOVED a LARGE tub of water to poop in! It seemed that he needed to have that to go. and it also smells SOOOO BAD! It is easy: clean up and he didn't poop anywhere else in my bedroom! So I guess it was like a little box, right?! Thank you so much for all you do here. You where kind of like Steve Irwin in a way, thorough and excited to show and TEACH Avira what you love. It was Fun to watch, and educational too! Sincerely, Lanni

Keep it up

I'd like to see a video about big lizard husbandry, like how to clean up their poop etc etc etc.

Hey Clint, would you ever make a video showing the enclosure of your tegu? I see some online but curious what your setup looks like

I had a savannah monitor, it was 70 cm when i took it over and the guy had prob never held it so i had my work trying to get it tame. 2 times i woke up by my girlfriend screaming that the monitor had escaped and she was afraid as f since it was in our bedroom and it had gone behind the closets and tangled up in all the power cords. The monitor didnt think 3000 litre terrarium was big enough. I bought a rabbits harness and walked it in my garden only problem is that they are smart so it tangle up in bushes to try to get the harness off.

Lmao!! Gus gus is just chillin..the monitor is driving you nuts!! 🙂😂🤣

I'd love to watch a video about chameleons! (Panther, Veiled, Carpet, etc)!

Do they have voluntary control of their irises like birds do? I love the close up images showing how alert they are!

Hi Clint! Can you do a head to head on bearded dragons and ackie monitors!? Thanks :)