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AlbigCrazy View Profile |
New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Well, to be truthful, there is a risk on feeding ANYTHING, including ’normal’ ’proven’ food items i.e. : rodents Some times rodents(not just rodents any food item) can carry new bacteria to your monitor making it fast for a certain about of time. In fact when you get sick a huge percentage is new bacteria entered your system (Food poisoning) other words don’t be to scared to feed a new prey item to your Varanid, as long as it’s clean and WHOLE as followed. Some basic rules on feeding prey items to your monitors, is WHOLE FOOD = the WHOLE animals WHOLE mice, not the legs, head, other parts. etc.... Make sure your food source is clean, and are healthy animals (story about that later) Don’t feed crapped on, dirty food items or unhealthy, because this can reflect onto your monitors health. Would you go ahead and eat dirty foods? A basic diet for newer albig keepers, should consist of birds, and rodents. With this species I believe with age an all rodent diet if not used right, can and will lead to obesity. Most albigs especially with age tend to prefer birds over rodents. This statement above should not be taken wrongly. If your husbandry allows so you CAN feed a all rodent diet to albigularis, though I don’t, and I believe with adding a few other food items into their diets, you will have healthier animals than a all rodent diet. Some other food items that you can safely use. WHOLE Sea food Crabs Shrimp Octopus Fish(Trout, Bass, Crappie, etc etc) Crayfish(crawfish{Whatever you want call them}haha) Mussels Clams. More foods Snails(a favorite) Snakes large bugs(Roaches, Tarantulas, Scorpions, Millipede’s, Locust) Rabbits Guinea Pigs Pigs (if you have large albigs and other species of Varanids) Frogs Lizards Turtles Fertile eggs There are so many food items out there that you can feed, of course this is not needed not even close. These are just to add variety (if you like) and for some people some of these items can be easily obtained. Then you have to think again, are these clean healthy food items? Story time. Well, I found a really cheap food source of chicks (chicken peeps), I didn’t take to consideration that, these were the natural selection animals that didn’t make it throw shipping, and being picked on and killed by other animals = not healthy crapped on animals = dumb of me. I got some 600+chicks for like 5 bucks. I didn’t get home for another 8 hours of them sitting there rotting = dumb of me, I then froze them and started feeding a few days later, my males ate them with gusto, but my female ate the time was on a fasting, and did not eat many. I keep feeding them to the males for about a week (female was not eating much mostly mice at this time) I come in finding my male acting weird, at the time I didn’t think anything of it, and I went to the other cage checking on my pair, I found my male (buddy RIP) dead, it tore me up bad.Tore me up so bad I almost sold off everything, and got out of reptiles. After that I moved in my other male which seemed fine, into my females cage, and soon after that he passed away after a meal of chicks. My female which ate very few got sick and started acting VERY weird and abnormal (if you can call monitors normal haha) and refused to eat for 13 days.She is now fine, and eating like mad, still as not got all of her weight back on, but she was never a large built Varanid. This post was made sort of specific to Varanus albigularis, White, and Blackthroat Monitors. The whole point of this post is not to feed a massive variety of foods (I feed a rather wide range of food... but this is only because it is available to me at different times.) it’s to show people that their are more simple options than just bugs and rodents. Some other species that don’t do the best on a all rodent diets are, Dumerils, Black Roughnecks, Indicus complex, Bosc’s, and maybe a few others I’m missing.
Cheers, Chad |
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| 08/19/07 07:08pm |
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Dracolvr View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410107 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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0wnz0r View Profile |
Message To: Dracolvr In reference to Message Id: 1410131 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
-Dean |
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| 08/19/07 07:31pm |
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AlbigCrazy View Profile |
Message To: 0wnz0r In reference to Message Id: 1410139 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Link Cheers, Chad |
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| 08/19/07 07:38pm |
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0wnz0r View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410153 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
-Dean |
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| 08/19/07 07:58pm |
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AlbigCrazy View Profile |
Message To: 0wnz0r In reference to Message Id: 1410172 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Cheers, Chad |
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0wnz0r View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410186 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
-Dean |
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Zabuzaa View Profile |
Message To: 0wnz0r In reference to Message Id: 1410198 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 08/19/07 09:02pm |
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: Zabuzaa In reference to Message Id: 1410277 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 08/20/07 04:29am |
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AlbigCrazy View Profile |
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Dirtborder View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1417634 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410107 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 08/30/07 12:48am |
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410107 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/04/07 07:50pm |
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Savannah monitor 4 View Profile |
Message To: Sidbarvin In reference to Message Id: 1431916 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/04/07 08:52pm |
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0wnz0r View Profile |
Message To: Savannah monitor 4 In reference to Message Id: 1432001 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/08/07 10:27pm |
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Nile_monitorv View Profile |
Message To: 0wnz0r In reference to Message Id: 1436738 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/10/07 07:52pm |
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410107 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/14/07 12:34am |
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Nile_monitorv View Profile |
Message To: Sidbarvin In reference to Message Id: 1443005 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 09/29/07 09:59pm |
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Xmasiguanas View Profile |
Message To: Nile_monitorv In reference to Message Id: 1462365 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/01/07 01:47am |
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Sidbarvin View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1410107 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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Savlover View Profile |
Message To: Sidbarvin In reference to Message Id: 1467796 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/12/07 11:42pm |
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Jawstheme View Profile |
Message To: Savlover In reference to Message Id: 1476735 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/13/07 12:09pm |
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Reedie View Profile |
Message To: Jawstheme In reference to Message Id: 1477062 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Quote: why would u want to feed turtles to a monitor lizard?
It’s a natural food for some species, aren’t we supposed to offer (as much as we can) the closest thing to their natural life in the wild? Why should that stop with what they eat? -Reed |
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| 10/13/07 01:09pm |
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Jawstheme View Profile |
Message To: Reedie In reference to Message Id: 1477122 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/14/07 05:31pm |
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Mxracer View Profile |
Message To: Jawstheme In reference to Message Id: 1478281 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/14/07 09:48pm |
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Nile_monitorv View Profile |
Message To: Mxracer In reference to Message Id: 1478664 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Quote: i have a qeustion do you guys think an 18 inch ackie monitor could eat a green anole
Make your own post dont Hijack other post’s and yes if my 12 inch ackie eat’s anoles your 18 inch ackie can |
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| 10/14/07 09:57pm |
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AlbigCrazy View Profile |
Message To: Nile_monitorv In reference to Message Id: 1478676 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
Quote: Quote:
i have a qeustion do you guys think an 18 inch ackie monitor could eat a green anole Make your own post dont Hijack other post’s and yes if my 12 inch ackie eat’s anoles your 18 inch ackie can Didn’t have to be rude, this is what this post is for, he’s not hijacking it. Yes your Ackie can eat Anoles, but Anoles are not the cleanest, or best feeder lizard to feed. Cheers, Chad |
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| 10/14/07 10:39pm |
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Mxracer View Profile |
Message To: AlbigCrazy In reference to Message Id: 1478711 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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| 10/15/07 07:50am |
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Jawstheme View Profile |
Message To: Mxracer In reference to Message Id: 1478932 New upgraded food post. (A few photos)
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