Steeve B
01-03-04, 03:43 PM
The role of insect as food
Insect are the perfect food source for wild baby monitors, because they feed on the world most energetic foods, grass and similar greens are very high energy foods, but needs to be eaten often as they are fast action foods, they allow monitors a low weight witch is important for arboreal movement and to flee predation, however we don’t feed our captive insect these much needed greens, rendering the role of insect less efficient by 10 fold, ok 5 if you supplement, this is why I only feed rodents, high fat and protein, its much much easier for a baby monitor to endure our husbandry faults when they have some fat stored, dehydration is less likely and an occasional skipped meal won’t be as detrimental.
The main reason insect are taken over rodents in the wild, is availability. Forget about the nonsense that pinkies aren’t nutritional, they are more so then any insect we have, and have more calcium then a many crickets, their mothers milk is passed to your monitor along with all the vitamins calcium and colostrums, not to mention fat and proteins This means even if you have all the best insects, if they aren’t plentiful your monitor will fail, he may even fail if your insects are nutritionally poor.
An under fed monitor will be unable to flush its internal parasite flora, and will end parasite infested, this will happen even with cb monitors, it’s the way of life some organism take advantage of weaker organism, microbial mutation is something science is only starting to understand, every organism that feeds on others organism will harbor a microbial (parasites) flora, capable of mutating from one form to an other, well fed monitors shed there parasites and always show negative fecal testing. We need to stop blaming the parasite, its our husbandry that’s at fault, I must have posted this several times, it doesn’t seem to sink inn.
too bad becaus this makes it so easyer
Insect are the perfect food source for wild baby monitors, because they feed on the world most energetic foods, grass and similar greens are very high energy foods, but needs to be eaten often as they are fast action foods, they allow monitors a low weight witch is important for arboreal movement and to flee predation, however we don’t feed our captive insect these much needed greens, rendering the role of insect less efficient by 10 fold, ok 5 if you supplement, this is why I only feed rodents, high fat and protein, its much much easier for a baby monitor to endure our husbandry faults when they have some fat stored, dehydration is less likely and an occasional skipped meal won’t be as detrimental.
The main reason insect are taken over rodents in the wild, is availability. Forget about the nonsense that pinkies aren’t nutritional, they are more so then any insect we have, and have more calcium then a many crickets, their mothers milk is passed to your monitor along with all the vitamins calcium and colostrums, not to mention fat and proteins This means even if you have all the best insects, if they aren’t plentiful your monitor will fail, he may even fail if your insects are nutritionally poor.
An under fed monitor will be unable to flush its internal parasite flora, and will end parasite infested, this will happen even with cb monitors, it’s the way of life some organism take advantage of weaker organism, microbial mutation is something science is only starting to understand, every organism that feeds on others organism will harbor a microbial (parasites) flora, capable of mutating from one form to an other, well fed monitors shed there parasites and always show negative fecal testing. We need to stop blaming the parasite, its our husbandry that’s at fault, I must have posted this several times, it doesn’t seem to sink inn.
too bad becaus this makes it so easyer