|
|  |
| Notices |
Welcome to the sSnakeSs community. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
|
12-13-12, 11:39 PM
|
#1
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Posts: 38
Country: 
|
How much and how often should I feed
My female sav is about 18 inches in length. How often & how much should I feed her?
I've had her for bout a week n I been feeding her about ten crickets a day and 5 to 10 meal worms and just started giving her pinky mice today, but I was only gonna give two of those every other day unless I should give her more than that or less
|
|
|
|
12-13-12, 11:44 PM
|
#2
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May-2008
Location: Central New York State
Age: 60
Posts: 16,536
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
may we please see a picture of your lizard?? I can offer better informed advice if I had a look at it.
Now, judging by what you said in the other thread, I would be shoveling a bunch of food at it right now and seeing if we can catch up on the growth a little.
__________________
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?"
|
|
|
|
|
12-13-12, 11:48 PM
|
#3
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May-2008
Location: Central New York State
Age: 60
Posts: 16,536
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
yummy foods that Savs like....
Mice, Baby Rats, Baby chickens, large roaches, crickets, locusts, big night crawlers (Lobworms or "night walkers" depending on where you live), whole organic shrimp & beetles.
Some people feed them eggs, I chose not to bother with eggs.
__________________
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?"
|
|
|
|
|
12-15-12, 12:16 PM
|
#4
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country: 
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
yummy foods that Savs like....
Mice, Baby Rats, Baby chickens, large roaches, crickets, locusts, big night crawlers (Lobworms or "night walkers" depending on where you live), whole organic shrimp & beetles.
Some people feed them eggs, I chose not to bother with eggs.
|
Will have to introduce some new ones to my Bosc, I'd like to get some baby chickens although I have never come across these in a pet/reptile store.. are they stored in freezers?
|
|
|
|
|
12-15-12, 12:34 PM
|
#5
|
|
Member
Join Date: May-2012
Location: Manchester
Age: 48
Posts: 2,075
Country: 
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBosc
Will have to introduce some new ones to my Bosc, I'd like to get some baby chickens although I have never come across these in a pet/reptile store.. are they stored in freezers?
|
Some rep shops stock frozen chicks but not all. You can always bulk buy online, there are plenty of suppliers to choose from.
__________________
1.1 Corns (Anery Stripe, Amel) 1.0 Rootbeer 0.2 Jungle Carpet Python 0.1 Caramel Coastal Carpet Python 1.0 Zebra Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 50% Diamond Zebra Carpet Python
|
|
|
|
|
12-15-12, 02:48 PM
|
#6
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by Donnie
Some rep shops stock frozen chicks but not all. You can always bulk buy online, there are plenty of suppliers to choose from.
|
Yes, I'll have a little look around and see what i can find. Thanks for the info 
|
|
|
|
|
12-15-12, 02:03 PM
|
#7
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May-2008
Location: Central New York State
Age: 60
Posts: 16,536
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBosc
Will have to introduce some new ones to my Bosc, I'd like to get some baby chickens although I have never come across these in a pet/reptile store.. are they stored in freezers?
|
I would ask Steve Foo (monitormad) as I have seen countless videos and pictures of him feeding F/T chicks, so I bet he knows where to buy bulk in the UK.
__________________
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?"
|
|
|
|
|
12-15-12, 02:49 PM
|
#8
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
I would ask Steve Foo (monitormad) as I have seen countless videos and pictures of him feeding F/T chicks, so I bet he knows where to buy bulk in the UK.
|
Thanks Infernalis, I'll take a look for his profile now
|
|
|
|
|
12-16-12, 07:25 AM
|
#9
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
yummy foods that Savs like....
Mice, Baby Rats, Baby chickens, large roaches, crickets, locusts, big night crawlers (Lobworms or "night walkers" depending on where you live), whole organic shrimp & beetles.
Some people feed them eggs, I chose not to bother with eggs.
|
The mice and chicks, are they packed with goodness or are they pretty much just used for a treat?
|
|
|
|
|
12-16-12, 08:49 AM
|
#10
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May-2008
Location: Central New York State
Age: 60
Posts: 16,536
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBosc
The mice and chicks, are they packed with goodness or are they pretty much just used for a treat?
|
Mice and chicks are good staple foods.
My two have been eating rodents nearly every day (as part of a well rounded diet with other items included) and they simply are not getting fat.
Where the problem is, rodents are high energy food, so you have to maintain a high energy Bosc, otherwise problems occur down the road, and people tend to blame the food, rather than the REAL cause, poor caging.
Ever notice that when we see a wild Monitor lizard in a documentary that they walk proudly with their chest/belly held up high and not dragging their gut like most of the captives we see??
It's certainly not because the wild examples belong to a weight watcher's club, it's not because they count calories in the wild, or because they are fussy over the dinner menu......... it's because their environmental conditions are correct for proper metabolism to occur.
__________________
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?"
|
|
|
|
|
12-20-12, 06:03 AM
|
#11
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
yummy foods that Savs like....
Mice, Baby Rats, Baby chickens, large roaches, crickets, locusts, big night crawlers (Lobworms or "night walkers" depending on where you live), whole organic shrimp & beetles.
Some people feed them eggs, I chose not to bother with eggs.
|
what's your view on the baby chicks in terms of their goodness? I went to my local reptile shop and he actually advised me not to buy some off him as they aren't really that good?
|
|
|
|
|
12-20-12, 06:13 AM
|
#12
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May-2008
Location: Central New York State
Age: 60
Posts: 16,536
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBosc
what's your view on the baby chicks in terms of their goodness? I went to my local reptile shop and he actually advised me not to buy some off him as they aren't really that good?
|
As part of a well rounded diet, Chicks are fine mate.
__________________
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?"
|
|
|
|
|
12-20-12, 01:13 PM
|
#13
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Location: Birmingham - UK
Posts: 168
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Quote:
Originally Posted by infernalis
As part of a well rounded diet, Chicks are fine mate.
|
Thanks Infernalis =]
|
|
|
|
|
12-23-12, 03:04 AM
|
#14
|
|
Member
Join Date: Dec-2012
Posts: 38
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Ok so I have been feeding my baby sav two pinkies a day some times three and and five large crickets and sometimes I'll throw in a few meal worms is this substantial or should I increase the feeding she seem to take every time exept for the meal worms she doesn't always take those unless I give her them first I'm guessing its because she doesn't care for them as much as the other food
|
|
|
|
|
12-14-12, 12:06 AM
|
#15
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Sep-2012
Posts: 66
Country:
|
Re: How much and how often should I feed
Any sort of invert pray as much as she will take daily. I offer food twice a day to my growing varanids, every other day on my big adults- as to not contribute to obesity.
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Hybrid Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 01:58 PM.
Powered by vBulletin®
©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2002-2023, Hobby Solutions.
|
 |
