White Throat Diet

[Colonel_SB]

Ok I've only kept nile monitors and I wanted to know if W/T's like fish too and if it's good for them. I used to give my nile fish fillets from the super market and I just wanted to know if I can do the same for Herc :)

[mbayless]

Hi,
My 6'2" female V.a. would swallow entire trout, many of them sometimes. It is perfectly good for them, although it smells much more horrible coming out than going in! V. albigularis feed mostly on snails, snakes, insects and other molluscs, as their teeth when adults demonstrates. They can eat rodents, but if you notice many of them seem almost '********' in raking it, trying to open its body cavities. They prefer the afore-mentioned to the latter in most cases, and the animals know what is good for them more than we do.
V. albiuglaris is one of 'the' largest feeders/bottomless garbage can Varanids known! They are terrific animals.
good luck,

[SHvar]

Birds over mice for a part of their lives (chickens). I raised my current albigs on chickens as a basis with mice, from one at 2 years old and 2ft long for about a year, after which I switched to more mice and then rats, the other at a few months old through a year old on mostly chickens with mice, hissers, crickets, occaisional meat. Sobek was switched to rats with occaisional chickens and mice after 6ft in length, she was 6ft 2 inches at 2.5 years old, and still constantly hungry. I dont like using fish much for monitor food, unless its a part of a rodent, chicken diet (whole animals).

[Ivan (NL)]

I feed my albigularis rats and rabbits (little) and occaisionally one day old chickens, meat etc.

[asphyxia]

I feed mine 85% Rats, and the remaining a mix of turkey and eggs with shell in, smelts and chicks.

Regards
Brian

[Steeve B]

I feed my African monitors rats, hissers, and soon lots of these!
My monitors go ballistic for hissers and snails. my adults will eat any hole fish I bring home.
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/959Photo_201-med.jpg

[Colonel_SB]

Where does one get those snails?