Snails for monitors?

[Freebody]

so i want to order some fresh frozen snails for my sav, but im not sure what kind to get, If you have purchaced, or know the names of the species in which i should look for, or a place you have gotten them, please post the link, im going to look myself right now, but perhaps others will use this info for thier savs, :)

[Little Wise Owl]

I purchased a large bag of live periwinkle snails (sea snail) for my Red Tegu. I got them from my local Asian market.

I had so many that I had to freeze them all.

[infernalis]

I wish I could help... I get my snails and slugs from my property...

[Freebody]

thanks for the tip, im going to check the local asian markets this weekend and see what i come up with. wayne all i have in my back yard is doggie pies LOL actually do you do anything to anything you let chomper eat on your property? im sure i read somewere monitors can digest, or at least wont get sick from eating almost anything, even in captivity to a reasonable extent. i guess im asking, i can just grab snails and worms and whatnot from my back yard when the rainy season comes and just give them to them like that?

[infernalis]

Yes, you can catch night crawlers and slugs and snails when it's rainy out.. as long as you are not near a city where poisons are used.

[Snakefood]

haha, Surrey is both big city and country outskirts!!

Freebody, don't know where in surrey you are but go for a drive to find green timbers park. There is a lake there with litterally thousands of snails in the long weeds by the lake!!

[Dehlida]

Snails are a great food source, have at it.

[Jacob1750]

Snails are a very stimulating food because the monitors love to crack open the shells. Very good choice

[Freebody]

haha, Surrey is both big city and country outskirts!!

Freebody, don't know where in surrey you are but go for a drive to find green timbers park. There is a lake there with litterally thousands of snails in the long weeds by the lake!!
im in newton, so its not far at all. i was thinking about catching some, but i would much rather get a big huge bag of them, i dont want to have to breed them either. i actually seen an add for african giant snails, which hit like 6", going to try and track it down, that i would be somthing i would breed and would be great for my sav when its an adult.

[infernalis]

Crayfish and crab is right in there too for excellent food source.

Mine sucks down a lot of shrimp. He just loves the jumbo size, raw & unpeeled.

Those big orange garden slugs are a tasty treat, Chomper can sniff them out when he's foraging in the woods.

[stephanbakir]

Duno if you guys get these, but when you flip over logs in QC, every log will have at least 5 yellow snails about the size of a quarter under it. Flipping over boards gives you 10-20.
Shallow water at the beach in the weeds gives you these giant brown snails the size of a golf ball, you can pull them out by the handfulls.
Not sure if I can feed them to my Asian water monitor but they should be great for your Sav.

[Freebody]

yoshy does not like shrimp, he eats a few, but will never clean the plate. so i dont really buy it for him anymore.gave him 3 today, and he only took a couple peices and then semmed rather displeased with the situation, so i gave him some dubias, now he content under his lamp :) stephan we do have snails but i dont have the time to go looking for snails at the rate yoshi will put them back, i would much rather buy some, we get alot of snails that clib are trees in the yard, i will give him those when i see them, but im really hoping to find some large bags of them soon.

[Freebody]

ok today i found some apple snail meat, frozen precooked, says to cook well,on the serving thing, so im sure it was just flash steamed or what ever its called. they were $1 for 100 grams, but only had 400 gram servings, i checked another asian marked and they had them for $5 for the same 400 gram package. so im going to drive into richmond which is 15-20 min away and it 90% asian their so im sure ill find better stuff for cheeper, but for now im glad i can give him snails now, well in a few minutes ill find out if he even likes them lol

[Freebody]

looks like he really liked them, he was chewing them a little and the juice was squishing out and he was licking his tong alot, as he was thowing them back in a hurry, cleared a plate of about 9-10 in about a minute lol

[Snakefood]

wow, what a hungey little guy!!

Next time I go out to the lake I'll see if I can grab ya a bag. You're not too far away to come get a bag!!

[infernalis]

We took Chomper down by the creek yesterday, he ate snails and crayfish, Took a picture of him in the water, it's on Dorothy's cell, when she gets home I'll post it.

[Freebody]

wow, what a hungey little guy!!

Next time I go out to the lake I'll see if I can grab ya a bag. You're not too far away to come get a bag!!
ya i will certainly have a change of tune when a few dollars of snails no longer feeds him for a week or so, at $1 for 100 grams, i bet full grown he would eat at least 600-1000 grams every other day. at that rate you bet your sweet *** ill be at the lake myself collecting a few bags LOL and wayne im really looking forward to seeing more pics of chomper. to bad the only place i know of that has cray fish around here are creeks, and the ones here in the city are not a good place to get them im sure.