The Savannah Monitor Diet thread..

[BarelyBreathing]

Originally Posted by Gregg M

You do not want to feed your savannah only inverts. It would not be a good diet for them especially when they reach adulthood. You NEED to add rodents to their diet. Half of their captive diet should consist of about 50% rodents 50% inverts.

Also, in general, most varanids will not eat millipedes. Many species can be dangerous to add as a food item When something tries to eat a millipede some species will release a poision in both gas and liquid form. That poison is cyanide. Some species may be fine to feed but how do you know what species it is? Better off not risking it.

Yeah, because clearly no wild savannah monitors ever make it to adulthood. :rollseyes:

[Gregg M]

Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing

Yeah, because clearly no wild savannah monitors ever make it to adulthood. :rollseyes:

We do not and can not offer the same diet they get in the wild. The insects are different. they eat land snails which we can not get. The amount the eat daily when time are good is more than we can offer. This is not the wilds of Africa, it is captivity. It is stupid to even bring up "the wild diet" when we are talking about a reptile that will be living in someones house. THEY NEED MICE IN THEIR DIET IN CAPTIVITY. Stop trying to get people over to your invert only crap. All you are doing is setting the new owner up for failure.

[varanus_mad]

Originally Posted by Gregg M

We do not and can not offer the same diet they get in the wild. The insects are different. they eat land snails which we can not get. The amount the eat daily when time are good is more than we can offer. This is not the wilds of Africa, it is captivity. It is stupid to even bring up "the wild diet" when we are talking about a reptile that will be living in someones house. THEY NEED MICE IN THEIR DIET IN CAPTIVITY. Stop trying to get people over to your invert only crap. All you are doing is setting the new owner up for failure.

Agreed.

Wild inverts in africa far exceed what we have available in both size and quantity availability.