A meat diet for tokays??

[Dom]

I have alwasy loved tockays for their sheir strengh and the fact that they eat mice when adults.. Just curious as to what your oppinions are on raising a tokay in the following way ..

Crickets as a young one and once able to eat mice .. A rodent diet with almost never any crickets.. I am looking for the upside and downside of this practice .. Anyone have any tokay's raised in such a way?

I have heard of possible MBD .. or shorter lifetime - Are these true and proven?

Tx in advance
Dom

[dave68]

I don't think an all rodent diet would be the greatest. I feed my group as much variety as possible ie... crickets, grasshoppers,mealworms, superworms,moths,etc...with an occasional fuzzy or hopper mouse for a treat like once a month if that. I've never tried an all rodent diet, but I don't think it would be very healthy for your Tokays I.M.H.O.

Dave

[lostwithin]

have heard an all rodent diet can be harmful too much fat content. I feed Mine crickets, roach's ect

Devon

[V.hb]

I believe their natural diet consists of almost 100% insects..
Roaches would be your best bet...... I know to much rodents can lead to a world of problems in some animals.

[Linds]

I don't see in any way how an all-rodent diet could cause MBD in an omnivorous/carnivorous nocturnal lizard, such as a Tokay. They are eating whole prey items, that contain all the essential nutrients, including vitamin d.

However, if a reptile that naturally consumes a low-fat high-roughage diet (most small-medium, and many large lizards) is offered an alternative diet that is higher in fat/lower roughage, it will cause fatty deposits in/on the organs which can lead to their failure to properly function and utlimately leading to the animals untimely demise. And yes, this is proven to be very true.

[V.hb]

MBD wont happen, but kidney, liver failure etc will.

[Dom]

Tx alot for the answers guys ..