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#2263187 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	How often should I feed my baby sav? How often should I feed my three month old baby sav and how many crickets should I feed her when I feed her? Also howHow big will she get in a year if I feed her correct and if the heat and humidity is correct in her cage?
04/17/12  07:47pm
#2263239 Norf View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263187  How often should I feed my baby sav? In one year I’m guessing should be at least 18"+ Feed on a day to day basis if not every other day. Offer as many as it will eat in one feeding.
04/18/12  01:50am
#2263250 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Norf   In reference to Message Id: 2263239  How often should I feed my baby sav? Yup. Feed every day to every other day. 10-20 bugs per feeding. If he snatches them all up fast, feed more. If unbeaten bugs are left in cage, feed less. They can easily hit 18-28" in a year if heated and fed well.
04/18/12  07:37am
#2263256 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2263250  How often should I feed my baby sav? If she is pooping does that mean the humidity and heat is good? I have the humidity to 70% and ninty degrees warm side sevinty to eighty cold side with a basking spot of 130 is this good?
04/18/12  09:11am
#2263374 Krusty View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263256  How often should I feed my baby sav? If he/she is pooping it means they’ve eaten. If they’re mildly dehydrated, they may poop less often and strain to drop a dry one out possibly, but it’s hard to read into the turds too much. If you put deep sandy soil in the cage and it’s moist down deep but almost dry on top, the lizard can CHOOSE what it wants and it won’t get dehydrated. You achieve this type of moisture by sealing up the cage top and not having a blasting heat lamp over a screen, but an internal lamp in there. Drop the wattage or put on a dimmer if the cage overheats in a sealed cage. Test on an empty cage before placing lizard inside. But you should "error" on the moist side with Monitors, not the dry side.
04/18/12  10:08pm
#2263386 Dillonh24 View Profile	Message To: Krusty   In reference to Message Id: 2263374  How often should I feed my baby sav? At the very least it should be 18+ inches I would hope. Mine is 6-7 months and already at 16-18 inches. Feed it everyday. 5-6 days of crickets and 1-2 days on mice is how I started mine out then as they get older you can start adding more mice/meat to the diet but keep feeding it crickets and inverts as long as you can. For crickets dependin on the size of them and your monitor I would feed probably 10-20 crickets or so then with mice I would offer a few appropriate size mice again depending on the size of the monitor. I use a custom built melamine enclosure to seal in humidity. I sealed it with aquarium sealant. Also plenty of dirt and sand make for a great mix of holding burrows and humidity. When you add a lot of dirt at first it keeps the humidity right up there. I believe mine was up to 85-90% at first then slowly dropped to about 70 which is where it sits now but I really only have to mist it like once a week if that.. But again, keep the mixture deep. A lot of people say that the substrate should be as deep as the length of the monitor from snout to vent. I offer mine a little more but thats just me.. My girl is sitting on 20 inches already which is a lot bigger than her S-V length but thats just because she loves to dig (especially for inverts) and make burrows.
04/18/12  11:46pm
#2263404 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Dillonh24   In reference to Message Id: 2263386  How often should I feed my baby sav? Thankyou. I got her to eat off tongs yesterday it was awesome. She is coming along goo. Should I put worms in there so .she can dig for them or no?
04/19/12  09:33am
#2263406 Dillonh24 View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263404  How often should I feed my baby sav? Thats great! Just wait till the first time you can lead her onto your arm.. I GUARENTEE your heart will just be racing LOL. But with the worms it is a personal choice.. I know some like to offer them just to give them exercise and everything. I mostly use crickets for her to get her exercise but I do use worms myself as well but I make sure the ones I get are pesticide free and everything as not to harm her. What all do you feed her?
04/19/12  09:36am
#2263413 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Dillonh24   In reference to Message Id: 2263406  How often should I feed my baby sav? Well right now crickets and occasional wax worms and muel worms but I heard that u should crush the muel worms head is this true?
04/19/12  11:01am
#2263414 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Dillonh24   In reference to Message Id: 2263406  How often should I feed my baby sav? Well crickets with the ocasional muel worms or wax worms but I heard that I should crush the muel worms head because they can eat through the stomach is this true?
04/19/12  11:04am
#2263415 Daryl- View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263414  How often should I feed my baby sav? Pretty sure you already asked that question and you got a response... But as you seem to have forgotten, no, not true.
04/19/12  11:28am
#2263416 Dillonh24 View Profile	Message To: Daryl-   In reference to Message Id: 2263415  How often should I feed my baby sav? Okay.. go with crickets, appropriate size mice, and mix it up with some other stuff such as fish and shrimp. Shrimp is great because it is VERY low in fat. Anything invert is good as long as it is whole prey.. I know I treat mine every once in a while with an egg or raw chicken but thats on occasion and not a staple of her diet. Look at chad’s food list.. it is great!
04/19/12  11:53am
#2263418 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Dillonh24   In reference to Message Id: 2263416  How often should I feed my baby sav? Like shrimp frozen at walmart? And at what age can I start feefing her pinky mice? She is about three months old and five or four inches long
04/19/12  12:08pm
#2263426 Dillonh24 View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263418  How often should I feed my baby sav? Yeah, I bought frozen shrimp but make sure it is JUST shrimp with nothing else added in.. and you could probably start now. I fed mine pinky mice when I brought her home at the same age but only do it once or twice a week..
04/19/12  01:39pm
#2263504 Savannahmonitorlover View Profile	Message To: Dillonh24   In reference to Message Id: 2263426  How often should I feed my baby sav? Ok thankyou for all your help and I hope I can get her to grow up good and healthy and with your info it has helped alot on feeding thankyou.
04/19/12  10:35pm
#2263505 Dillonh24 View Profile	Message To: Savannahmonitorlover   In reference to Message Id: 2263504  How often should I feed my baby sav? Not a problem, just PM me if you have any more questions.
04/19/12  10:39pm

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