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12-13-12, 11:39 PM
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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
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12-13-12, 11:44 PM
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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.
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12-13-12, 11:48 PM
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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.
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12-14-12, 12:06 AM
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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.
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12-14-12, 12:10 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
almost forgot, big slugs, snails, crayfish, crabs, and some like whole fish.
I say some, because Littlefoot will jump all over fish, Cera ignores them. When we had Chomper, he ignored fish also.
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12-14-12, 12:23 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
How do I post pics
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12-14-12, 01:05 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
I just went through learning how to post pics, hopefully I can help you too. I use photobucket. Join and upload a photo, while viewing the uploaded photo there are a few options on the right side of the photo, if you click the IMG code it should copy immediately and then just paste that onto a reply or new thread and voila, a picture like this should show up:
Hope that helps!
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12-15-12, 12:16 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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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.
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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?
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12-15-12, 12:34 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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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?
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Some rep shops stock frozen chicks but not all. You can always bulk buy online, there are plenty of suppliers to choose from.
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12-15-12, 02:03 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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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?
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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.
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12-15-12, 02:48 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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Some rep shops stock frozen chicks but not all. You can always bulk buy online, there are plenty of suppliers to choose from.
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Yes, I'll have a little look around and see what i can find. Thanks for the info 
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12-15-12, 02:49 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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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.
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Thanks Infernalis, I'll take a look for his profile now
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12-15-12, 04:53 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
Here's a couple I have heard good things about (i will use one of these when I get the freezer space to buy bulk)
Frozen Chicks
Frozen Chicks - RS Reptile Supplies
Edit: I have got a code for 5% off to use on the frozen reptile if you decide to use them, just PM me and I will send it to you
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Last edited by Donnie; 12-15-12 at 05:04 PM..
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12-16-12, 07:23 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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Originally Posted by Donnie
Here's a couple I have heard good things about (i will use one of these when I get the freezer space to buy bulk)
Frozen Chicks
Frozen Chicks - RS Reptile Supplies
Edit: I have got a code for 5% off to use on the frozen reptile if you decide to use them, just PM me and I will send it to you |
Thanks Donnie!, looks like I'm going to save a heck of a lot of money if I buy using this website. Currently I buy 10 for £5 and they sell 10 for £2.75 so nearly saving half =]
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12-16-12, 07:25 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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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.
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The mice and chicks, are they packed with goodness or are they pretty much just used for a treat?
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