Interesting new whole prey item...

[infernalis]

I am going to chime in here.

just about 7 years ago I myself purchased a Savannah Monitor without any research.

The package arrived, I set up a 10 gallon aquarium with some thin substrate on the floor, a hide log and basking lamp. (pretty much the "standard you tube newb" setup)

I was already on some forums, so I promptly and very proudly took pictures and posted them all over the place.

Responses were split, most people were like "so cool, Congratulations" I was happy, I was now a "monitor keeper"???

This lasted right up until I posted on Kingsnake, those folks tore me a new arse fast, and guess what, my first reactions were "these crusty old meanies are picking on me for being new" ...... They were NOT picking on me, and it had nothing to do with being a newb, it had everything to do with my horrible setup, but I was such a proud owner, all of my inexperienced buddies had told me already how cool I was, everyone was ooh and ahh over my walking pictures on a leash...

so why listen to the meanies? after all they were not helping me, they were calling me a lizard killer instead.

Then along came this really loud, really obnoxious man who could care less what my opinion of him was, he barked and bellered at me at every turn.

five years in, the lizard died, my foolish unearned pride was crushed... the grumpy man was right... I did kill my own lizard.

People, listen up... if we are going to learn from each other and stop this lunacy of killing lizards with preventable sicknesses, we need to pay attention to those ahead of us and not get up in their grills when they toss a little experience or knowledge our way.

Please take your off topic arguments to the off topic forums. This thread is specifically about weather or not some scorpions are going to hurt a Nile monitor.

we are now going to return to scorpions as monitor food......