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First Thread Here! Quick Question
Hey everyone, this is my first thread here as I just signed up. I came across your forum and saw that there were some expierenced monitor keepers here so I decided to join.
I have a question for the monitor people here about something that I saw and worried me this morning. A little background on me: I have been keeping monitors for a lot of years now along with other types of lizards, snakes, turtles, and tortoises ( family hobby). Out of all the monitors I have including, savs, blackthroats, argus's, and water monitors, this is the first time ive noticed this.
I walked into our garage this morning ( where we keep all of our reptiles being as we live in South Florida) turned on everyones lights and walked out for a little. I had some silk worms left over last night from some chameleons that didnt eat them all so as every monitor keeper does, you never waste the food you just feed your leftovers to the lizards lol. Well my youngest monitor right now is our 4 month old water monitor who is currently eating everything from rat fuzzies, chicken breast, large horned worms, pretty much everything that all my other lizards eat and have always ate. Well to the story, I woke him up this morning because like I said I needed to feed off the silkworms instead of wasting them. When i went to give him a worm, I just drop it in front of him in his cage and he usually goes to town on it. This morning when I did it, he went to go eat it but was missing the worm. He would try to get it 3-4 times but totally miss it then he would finally grab it. Now again, I have never seen this happen and that is the reason that I am worried. This little water monitor is one of my favorite that I have right now and i just want to see if anyone on here has seen anything like this before or knows what it could be?
My optimisitc mind just is saying that he was tired and groggy from me waking him up and trying to feed him early when I usually feed them around 5-6pm.
If anyone could just give a little info I would really appreciate it, thanks!
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