T neg visual X T pos visual "Albino Crosses" two clutches produced March & Oct 2018
Igor and Cantik, such a cute couple they make.
Igor and Cantik courtship.
Cantik one of my Tpos females basking in the morning heat.
Cantik, my Tpositive female after depositing her clutch of 12 eggs.
Cantik which means beautiful in bahasa Indonesia.
Her first clutch was laid in a nest box I made as this was before I had moved into Zilla Villa. Her eggs were transported to the new house, a very stressful time but all worked out as I got 100% hatch.
Igor and Cantik first clutch, 100% hatch, 100% albino.
Igor and Cantik second clutch, 100% hatch, 100% albino.
Welcome to Zilla Villa 44 where we love our Biawak.
The photo everyone wants.
One Tneg x Tpos baby, very pretty.
Very light phase Tneg x Tpos offspring,
Couple hours old Tneg x Tpos beauty.
Tneg x Tpos stunner!
Couple minutes out of the egg.
Pile of beauty.
2018, it was already right there for anyone to see.! LMAO
Striking variances can be seen.
Very bold ocelli on this example.
Happy teenagers enjoying my cooking.
Healthy and truly amazing each and everyone!
T neg visual X T pos visual (Madura locale) one fertile egg, produced Feb 2020
I know not much to see but this is Igor and Mel locking up for the first time.
Copulations Igor & Mel
They where mating for five days.
I call her Mel, this was when I first received her, she is much bigger now. Madura female Tpos
Mel in a temporary holding cage while off cycle. Very typical pattern of banding we see from Madura locale Biawak.
Mel, very gravid looking and shockingly only produced one egg, she must have re-absorbed some?
Madura Tpos nesting.
YUP, one egg. Still I am confused by this. She had laid four eggs six months before, her first and all infertile.
My one baby with Madura genes.
Traits more to the Tpos of her mother.
Hopefully in the future I can get more eggs from this pairing to see if there is any variances.
One of One.
Very pretty pattern this one hatched out with.
Typical of Madura the whole center band of ocelli faded so now only two ocelli are seen.
This one hated me for many months, took a bit more patience to gain her trust.
Can you believe this is what this baby looks like one year later?? INSANE!
(Paradox or Calico)? T- x T+ (Madura) Albino Varanus salvator. Mind blown!!
((Snow-Blind))© Albino Salvator four clutches produced June 2020, Jan 2021, Nov 21, April 22. Eggs cooking, with F2 included.
Tnegative pairing. Igor and Gempa
Love connection!
Future "Super" Tnegative babies or as I named them Snow-Blind
Gempa on Godzilla, does it get any better than this?
Predator eyes. Love her!
Imagine my excitement when I looked into the incubator to see such beauty. I knew straight away I had something VERY special. I am calling ((Snow-Blind)) salvator
Tnegative X Tnegative "Super" taking his first taste of the world around him.
FIRST ever the world has seen! Tnegative X Tnegative hatchling taking a look at his world.
Full of life and ready to fight straight out of the egg!
Snow-Blind CBB Albino Varanus salvator
Stunning day old Tnegative X Tnegative offspring.
My artistic photo of my captive bred and born T-x T-
Such beauty.
Second shed cycle done and would you look at that baby. Unbelievable!
When I compare this Snow-Blind, never have I seen a T- at 5 months old looking is such ways!
What a beautiful creature.
The dancing tongue of a Snow-Blind Albino Varanus salvator.
The Dragon's Stare
Snow-Blind, PURE beauty!
Not sure it can get any better then this but I will try.
((Snow-blind)) Effect
This was taken when 5 months old, anyone who understand Biawak knows the changes they go through until they are adults. What they will look like as adults is really anyones guess.
White base coat, with some artistic air brushing of oranges and florescent yellows. The lord is a artist in case you didnt know that already.
Take notice of the eyes, even the eyes are turning white. Never have I seen the spider webbing between the ocelli look in such a way. They look like the Biawak gods gave them a white base coat and then painted the florescent yellows and oranges on top. Being a person who loves Monitor lizards I am really impressed by with these lizards.
At eight months old they are looking more incredible with every shed cycle.
They almost don't look real, but I can assure you they are very real and very special indeed.
That intelligence shines through, they are so reactive.
Can it get any better than this? I know there are other projects out-there and I have some special ones myself so only time will tell if these can be topped.
Snow-Blind hatchling at three months old, this one is from the third clutch to date I have hatched.
Black Dragon X Tneg/Tpos one clutch produced Aug 2020, "hybrids" F2 incubating
My Black Dragon is such a gentle giant.
Wow, welcome to Zilla Villa 44 where we LOVE our Biawak.
Contrast! Very excited when I looked in and seen this.
Fresh from the egg Black Dragon x Tnegative & Tpostive offspring
Tongue color is distinguishing factor in identifying Varanids
My ugly arse and my beautiful black beast.
Jet-Black I named this one, showing the traits of his dad.
The albino in her trying to break through.
Beautiful scalation.
Wow, ventrally such beautifu pattern
The claws when first hatched looked like a combination of Black Dragon and Albino
Jet-Black a few days old.
Inner albino showing through.
Lots of variation in pattern within this clutch.
I believe the white spider webbing will spread with age.
What a regal Biawak, I am blessed to be in his company.
We call him Jet-Black, any questions?
NOTHING beats captive bred and born biawak. Indonesia born and bred!
Line Breeding, F2 results, Oct 2020, Aug 21, Sept 21, June 22. Forty two heads to date.
Igor and Anak Igor in courtship behaviour. They always copulated in hidden spots of the cage so this is the best photo I have.
My first look at this clutch pipping was very exciting as really they all are to me.
Always exciting for me to see that first pip.
Notice the egg tooth, used to cut the egg and will drop off after a couple days of hatching.
VERY Tnegative looking claws!
Its looks more white then the egg its lived in for 185 days.
This one showing traits of the Tnegative genes.
Notice those red eyes and like all Tnegative salvators their head will glow in bright light.
Tnegative x Tnegative/Tpositive produced some amazing offspring.
100% hatch of all to term eggs, 100% albino.
Twins. HAHA
Stunning to see this when i open the incubator.
Beautiful Tneg x Tneg/Tpos
Really showing traits of both Tnegative and Tpositive.
The EYES are VERY special !
I've hatched 41 albinos to date and NOT one ever looked like this in the eyes.
Some one asked for more variance in a clutch of Biawak eggs? HAHA.
Stunning looking couple hours into her life.
Oranges pop on some! Photos dont pick it up so well.
More living art from Zilla Villa 44..
So cute. Three on a rock is better then...
So healthy, within 24 hours of hatching they where feeding, fully absorbed yolk sacs and just ready for life!
Very interesting results from this pairing indeed. Shown are two Tneg, two lighter phase Tpos and one darker phase Tpos.
Those eyes from the same clutch of eight.
Picasso x Anak Igor two holdbacks from 2018, its his first clutch and her third.
The following results are from breeding Picasso to Anak Igor.
twelve in twelve out
Some of the results have been unbelievable indeed, straight from the egg this one and many others from this clutch and others.
Black Dragon X Madura Island, Dec 2020, Jan 2022. April 2022 Thirty three heads to date.
The breeding pair
Very gravid female.
Hatching after 186-187 days for a 100% hatch of all full term eggs.
Looking at this photo, I thought we had hit the "Madura" look but I was wrong.
Notice the egg tooth used to cut their way out of the egg, that falls off after a couple weeks of hatching
Zilla Villa welcomes you, New life is always very special to me!
Couple hours old, soak in some water to clean off the vermiculite and hydrate.
Full of life and defensive to the big ugly human staring at them.
Pretty
This one hatched out of the egg with a aggressive disposition, like his mom but now is very friendly, some babies don't mind handling more then others but NONE of the babies I produce ever attempt to bite after a few weeks.
Wow, does this one POP!
Stunning little BD x Madura right there!
Cuteness OVERLOAD!
Another interesting clutch from Zilla Villa, building block for future pairings.
Very pretty at two weeks old, growing fast!
Notice the jet-black tongue of his father
Keep your Guru or Gubu or what ever ya wanna call them. I'll take these all day long!
I see some potential shoulder banding on this one.
"Socialised"? No, captive bred, hatched and raised, it's that simple. No "whispering" needed.
T neg Albino X Madura Island one clutch produced July 2021.
The mating pair
Nesting female
Nest guarding female
100% Hatch!!
One of the babies ripping its way out of his six month home.
Eye see you...
Beautiful white/black banded tail
At a week old they are still learning not to fear me
Really impressed with the pattern and coloration
Very yellow head and throat
Day old
Really pretty ocelli/banding pattern many have
I am so cute and I know it
That top row of ocelli forming a full band in some.
Another of the top row of ocelli forming a band
What a set of building blocks these beauties have. T- and Madura, my mind wonders what a heavily banded T- Madura would look like.
Calico/Paradox? Albino Salvators
Photo taken at 6+ months old, I dont know what else this could be except paradox?
We call this girl Freckles.
Darker with every shed cycle or maybe she gets lighter.?
Paradox Albino ((Snow-blind)) Varanus salvator????
This sure does look like a paradox effect when I compare to Paradox Albino Ball Pythons
Seeing double double vision.
From a different female, this was already very special to me as its one of one produced from pairing Igor to Mel.
Very dark as a hatchling and has been in what I would call a difficult shedding cycle for months now. How surprised was I when I seen this fresh skin looking this way.
Is this a Paradox or Calico Albino Water Monitor?
Amazing seeing this lizard transform into this now.
Black spots seem to get bigger with every shed cycle. This is a Coral, with Igor as the Sire.
The constant with all these captive bred Salvators is that Igor is the sire, he also has these trait. This is a T negative albino.
This photo is of a Leucistic wild-caught paradox. Compare it to the next photo.
Photo of one of my captive produced paradox, the paradoxing looks exactly the same.
This T negative female is covered in black spots and thriving and gaining size quickly now. She will help, I hope prove or disprove whats going on.
This is a fresh from the egg baby T-, you will notice its rear body is covered in black flecks.
Not "freckles from the sun" PROVEN trait from my albinos!
About Me
My Varanid History
- I am a Private (hobbyist) Varanid Breeder and now breed my lizards from my home I named Zilla Villa 44 that's located on the beautiful island of Bali called "The Island Of The Gods" its one of seventeen thousand islands within the Indonesian archipelago I call home, The Islands of DRAGONS. I share my home with my wife from Kalimantan, my Dog a red nosed Pit-bull we call Selene an African Grey Parrot named DQ and a whole lot of Monitor lizards at any given time.
- I don't have a "price list" and while I am willing to sell some of my CBB Varanids to experienced, like-minded people who I hope are not complete assholes like so many turn out to be. My main goal in making this website was to share my passion and maybe help educate some on keeping & breeding Varanids. My apologies, as I talk about myself here and give some of my back story, please skip over if you're not interested. Both my brother Jimmy and I where exposed to reptiles from an early age as our father loved turtles and we had a back-yard full of them so my first experience of digging up reptile eggs and incubating them was via turtles. Our mom was not as "into" the reptiles as much but she tolerated our "hobby" with her back yard for ever shrinking due to ponds and land take-overs by turtles. My name is Daniel (Danny) Gorman and my first Varanus breeding success was with Varanus bengalensis & nebulosus in the early 90's, when not many people had success breeding any type of monitor lizards, I remember Frank Retes but no one else in the states really having success or even trying to be honest. The photo above is "Flipper"one of my female Bengal Monitors and its taken from my old web-site I had setup through KingSnake.com. I had shared my observations of my Bengal Monitors breeding with Mr Walter Auffenberg an American biologist who spent over forty years in field research studying reptiles and amphibians. Mr Auffenberg was doing field research for his book The Bengal Monitor at the time. We use to talk often and during one of these talks he asked if I would be interested in joining him in the field, I was of course over the moon but conflict in and around Pakistan prevented this from happening. Regardless I was so inspired by Mr Auffenberg and his work on Monitor lizards, I authored Reproduction of the Bengal Monitor in Captivity. The success I had with Bengal Monitors motivated me to try breeding other species of Monitor lizards, I was successfully breeding V. prasinus to F2 generation, something that was VERY rare back then, with only one or maybe two keepers in Europe having success, while I was still living in New York in the late 90s and published an article Notes On The Green Tree Monitor in Reptiles Magazine (February 2000) around this time I had an opportunity to re-locate to Bali, Indonesia to breed V. prasinus and other Varanus species on a more commercial scale so I quit my full time job, sold my newly restored 63 SS Nova Convertible and was soon on a plane to Indonesia.
- My brother Jimmy had a really nice reptile shop in NY he called DnJ Reptiles so most of what I helped produce here in Indonesia went through him and the shop. There were 20+ farm produced Salvadorii that kinda stand out in my memory but so many others like the first examples of V. melinus, V salvator sulphur & V. boehmei in the states, just to mention a few that we brought into the hobby.
- I’ve now lived in Indonesia for 22 + years, having many experiences and travel to interesting parts of our world. Many of these years were spent working with and breeding many types of reptiles but always concentrating on Varanus species. Having been around for the discoveries of V. macraei, Varanus reisingeri, V. melinus, & V. boehmei, soon after I arrived in Bali in 2000, those were great times for me as you can imagine, I built a Lumbung on the reptile farm and spent much time up there breeding/studying varanids in semi natural situations. I have helped breed many types of reptiles but the Varanids that I have bred are very special to me, they included V. Salvadorii, Macraei, Boehmei, Beccarii, Cumingii, Nuchalis, Timorensis, Prasinus, Salvator, Jobiensis, Bengalensis & Nebulosus
Current Varanid Project
- I think it was around the year 2005-6 when I seen my first T postive albino V salvator, I had NEVER seen or heard of anything like it before and believe me we were deep into the Salvator supply chain back then having named the Sulphur water monitor just a few years earlier so the collectors knew to come to us if anything strange turned up. So, I see this T pos, maybe the first one ever found, if not for sure the first one that ever found its way to an exporter, I was really impressed by its reduced coloration as it was a "carmel" coloration so I never forgot this first albino I cared for for a few months before it was shipped to a breeder/hobbyist in New England. Many said it couldn't be done, they said it would take years. What a way to get the project going in 2018, hatching out Albino Water Monitors for the first time living in my new home I had moved into only five months earlier at the time. These first hatchlings I called "crosses" where a result of pairing a T negative visual male Igor to a T positive visual female Cantik. Something that before then had never been done or proven possible, others had produced "Corals" via production via hets. Producing a total of twenty two babies from two clutches in March and October with some of these babies ending up in Japan, Florida and New England in the USA. I didn't think it could get any better but boy was I wrong.! Some of the resulting babies where held back and are now productive animals in the program. The Tneg/Tpos "Albino Crosses" holdbacks have been breed to produce both Tneg & Tpos babies with variants in coloration and with some exceptional results. The future looks like it will be exciting given the results in the limited time I have been working on this project.
- My breeding group consist of wild caught un-related Tyrosinase-positive and Tyrosinase-negative or Tpos and Tneg Albino's and some choice Sulphur, Sumbawa Madura and Axanthic Water Monitors. All are unrelated wild collected Varanus salvator ranging from Sumatra, Java and the Island of Madura that I raised from juveniles.
- Adult breeding animals are housed in very large, semi-natural, walk-in outdoor enclosures year round in there native Indonesia. Feeding, breeding, egg nesting cycles are thus influenced by local climate and weather conditions and of course cage mate interactions. When I decided to get back into keeping and breeding Varanids I was determined to keep them in such a way that I could observe more natural interactions, breeding cycles, egg nesting and more. I was always inspired when talking to Walter Auffenberg back in the day, he kept groups of Varanus bengalensis in large green houses in Florida while I kept mine in home made cages I slept on top of in New York. This type of keeping Biawak is very different than my days in NY where I controlled everything the animals experienced, it's a serious learning curve. All of my main breeding cages are monitored via camera due to their size it would be difficult to locate a nest site if I didn't know where to look. Babies and juveniles are kept indoors or heated 24/7 because in our dry season we can have quite cold nights, I have taken readings of 58f so while the adults are strong enough to deal with such cool temps I wouldn't risk the more susceptible babies to the cold.