Feeding Nile

[Solid Snake]

I was wondering can i stick to pinkie mice and occassionally the crickets and silk worms?

[V.hb]

not advisable.. crickets and superworms should be your niles staple diet..
edited to add, as a juvinile.... as an adult, rats.

[Solid Snake]

whats wrong with just pinkies?

[V.hb]

no nutrition in them? Pinkies should be a once a week "treat" Staple diet of pinkies wont do anything for your monitor but cause problems..

[C.m.pyrrhus]

Your nile should be on a bigger staple diet of inverts. This will increase excercise and less fatty diets. a 'treat' once a week is no big deal, but remeber your lizard naturally would be eating a diet of inverts, with other supplemented foods such as eggs, birds, small mammals, etc....

[varanuskomodoen]

Scrambled eggs and roaches are good treats too.

[varanuskomodoen]

What the Hell, bake a CAkE for your monitor!!!!:D!!

[burmer]

When mine was small I gave two pinkies a week. For the most part I gave a variety of crickets and superworms along with ground turkey and scrambled eggs. Also for a treat you can give some fresh water shrimp.

[varanuskomodoen]

yea, that too:D.

[rustysdragons]

Our Nile (5.5 ft female)has recentle eaten:
Turkey,
Chicken livers
Hamhocks (ground up)
Rats
Marrow (from hamhocks)
Eggs
Hissing roaches
crickets
Mealworms

I think that has been the december menu.
They will eat a large variety of foods, you just want to make sure that your staple diet (IE Mice pinkies vs rats) are a healthy food and nutritional source.
thanks
Rusty